After an onslaught of scandals and the resulting negative stories, yesterday, in a major campaign speech, Hillary Clinton took aim at the “alt right.”
The alt right is a loose collection of bloggers, writers, activists, intellectuals, and media types who, among other things, embrace nationalistic policies over traditional GOP policies, and who have almost universally embraced Donald Trump as their candidate of choice.
Despite it’s relatively minuscule size, the alt right “movement” has become more vocal online over the past year, spawning such noteworthy figures as Milo Yiannopoulos and Canada’s own Lauren Southern.
It has also attracted support from some racists, which is what Hillary Clinton is trying to focus on.
It was a bizarre yet understandable (and for those of us previously aware of the movement, somewhat surreal) speech for Clinton to give – explicitly trying to align Donald Trump with extreme fringe elements of a very small segment of his very large supporter base.
What I found even more interesting though, was the fact that the Liberals executed almost the exact same strategy at the exact same time yesterday.
Canadian “journalist” Brian Busby did what all great journalists of 2016 do and scoured the internet for obscure comments that no one had ever actually seen until he gave them a platform. He then dropped a steamer of an “article” on The Walrus, accusing the Conservative Party of “allowing” death threats against the Prime Minister on their Facebook page.
The context of the post was that Trudeau was missing in the woods. Most of the resulting “offensive” comments were about this “shocking”.
As anyone who has spent more than a few hours on the internet knows, these types of ‘death threats’ are unfortunately par for the course.
Nevertheless, due to the nature of the article, it reached far beyond The Walrus’ six regular readers and found its way into the mainstream.
Justin Trudeau’s Principal Secretary Gerald Butts even got in on the fun, accusing the Conservative Party of posting death threats against the PM. (Realizing he was wrong, he quickly deleted that tweet and replaced it with a tamer one.)
mo
Trudeaus Liberals Adopt Hillary Clintons Strategy - In Real Time - MetaCanada
their cuckspeak reminds us of someone in this forum. Lol
The alt right is a loose collection of bloggers, writers, activists, intellectuals, and media types who, among other things, embrace nationalistic policies over traditional GOP policies, and who have almost universally embraced Donald Trump as their candidate of choice.
Despite it’s relatively minuscule size, the alt right “movement” has become more vocal online over the past year, spawning such noteworthy figures as Milo Yiannopoulos and Canada’s own Lauren Southern.
It has also attracted support from some racists, which is what Hillary Clinton is trying to focus on.
It was a bizarre yet understandable (and for those of us previously aware of the movement, somewhat surreal) speech for Clinton to give – explicitly trying to align Donald Trump with extreme fringe elements of a very small segment of his very large supporter base.
What I found even more interesting though, was the fact that the Liberals executed almost the exact same strategy at the exact same time yesterday.
Canadian “journalist” Brian Busby did what all great journalists of 2016 do and scoured the internet for obscure comments that no one had ever actually seen until he gave them a platform. He then dropped a steamer of an “article” on The Walrus, accusing the Conservative Party of “allowing” death threats against the Prime Minister on their Facebook page.
The context of the post was that Trudeau was missing in the woods. Most of the resulting “offensive” comments were about this “shocking”.
As anyone who has spent more than a few hours on the internet knows, these types of ‘death threats’ are unfortunately par for the course.
Nevertheless, due to the nature of the article, it reached far beyond The Walrus’ six regular readers and found its way into the mainstream.
Justin Trudeau’s Principal Secretary Gerald Butts even got in on the fun, accusing the Conservative Party of posting death threats against the PM. (Realizing he was wrong, he quickly deleted that tweet and replaced it with a tamer one.)
mo
Trudeaus Liberals Adopt Hillary Clintons Strategy - In Real Time - MetaCanada
their cuckspeak reminds us of someone in this forum. Lol
