Althouse: At the Lily Cafe...

July 22, 2018

At the Lily Cafe...

... talk about anything you want.

32 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: plant genitalia; 7/22/18, 9:24 PM
Big Mike said...: Consider the lilies of the field ...; 7/22/18, 10:25 PM
Robert said...: Is it just me that the photos of LIisa Page have shifted to a more attractive and appealing depiction? Why?; 7/22/18, 10:41 PM
Big Mike said...: You have to hand it to Hillary Clinton. She’s about the only candidate who could lose an election rigged in her favor.; 7/22/18, 10:43 PM
Kathryn51 said...: Robert said...
Is it just me that the photos of LIisa Page have shifted to a more attractive and appealing depiction? Why?

I read somewhere that her lawyers/PR advisers arranged the new photos and sent them off to media for their "standard" photo shot. Makes sense to me.; 7/22/18, 10:59 PM
Narayanan said...: Interesting take on Trump
- Putin
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/07/trumps-reverse-nixon-on-china.html?m=1; 7/22/18, 11:07 PM
harrogate said...: Trump now writing in all caps about Iran.

#Presidential; 7/22/18, 11:36 PM
readering said...: I guess a summit is in the works.; 7/22/18, 11:45 PM
eddie willers said...: Trump now writing in all caps about Iran.

#Presidential

That's how you answer DEATH TO AMERICA!; 7/22/18, 11:45 PM
eddie willers said...: I guess a summit is in the works.

With the survivors.; 7/22/18, 11:47 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Sundance at CTH made a significant find- he has, I believe, firmly established that the document that James Wolfe leaked to Ali Watkins was the initial FISA warrant on Carter Page. That document is stamped and dated by the court clerk, and that date she verified the copy was March 17th 2017- the same date in the Wolfe indictment describing the document Wolfe leaked was sent to the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence. In addition, the indictment mentions that Wolfe sent 82 text messages to Watkins that night and had a 30 minute phone call with her as well. It is of noteworthy that the first application is 82 pages long- it ends on page 82, and page 83 is simply the signature page for the FISA judge who was Rosemary Collyer. I think it clear that Wolfe texted 82 images to Watkins- one for each page of the application.; 7/23/18, 12:09 AM
Drago said...: harrogate: "Trump now writing in all caps about Iran.

#Presidential"

Obama cut a secret deal with murderous and chief global sponsors of terrorism Iranian Mullahs which he did not submit to the US Senate for either review or approval and in fact literally hid all the details from that body. Further, obambi kicked a cool $150 Billion over to those same Mullahs (including $1.8 Billion in physical cash in low denominations which was perfect for migrating over to Iran's terrorist proxies) all the while allowing the Iranians to determine which internal sites constitute actual "inspectable" sites as well as making sure the Iranians get to inspect their own sites!!

#Presidential; 7/23/18, 12:13 AM
Drago said...: eddie: "That's how you answer DEATH TO AMERICA!"

Only if you are on America's side.

Unlike obama, Kerry, Clinton, etc.; 7/23/18, 12:15 AM
Drago said...: Poor harrogate.

He/she/xe forgot that history does not begin anew each day for non-leftists.; 7/23/18, 12:16 AM
Drago said...: Careful Iranian Mullah (Friends of Obama), there are an awful lot of Iranian oil assets and infrastructure just sitting there in the Persian Gulf with US Navy assets all around them....

Easy peasy...if we so choose....; 7/23/18, 12:21 AM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Hahahaha at ExiledonMainStreet and other dupes here who were all excited over this fake shit. Drago and the Russians are laughing.

##Walkaway is fake, I knew it. LOL

The Anatomy Of An Astroturfed Movement
The “WalkAway Movement” officially started in May 2018, with posts dating back to May 19 on the group’s Facebook page. (Unofficially, the blueprint for this campaign has been in the works for quite some time.) Since its creation, the Facebook page has also added a public group for members to post content. As of June 30, the Facebook page had nearly 12,000 followers and the public group had almost 19,000 members. That breaks down to an average of 266 new followers a day and 422 new group members every day—quite a lot for a brand new “grassroots” movement.

A short time later, the campaign jumped over to Twitter, with user @usminority (“The Unsilent Minority”) spearheading the movement, or at least spearheading the public face of the movement. One of the first tweets that gained significant traction appeared on May 31, and was obviously meant to elicit the attention of influential Trump supporters (11 such accounts were tagged in the tweet). A handful of other tweets using the hashtag #WalkAway were widely circulated over the next couple of weeks, including one on June 11, one on June 14 and another on June 16, when Trump supporter Wayne Dupree joined in. All of those tweets garnered thousands of retweets and “likes.”

Artificial Amplification
At that point, nothing about the hashtag would have been particularly noteworthy to the casual observer, besides the fact that it was pretty clearly manufactured by Trump supporters.

That all changed on the weekend of June 23, when a flood of tweets using the hashtag suddenly appeared within a span of just a few hours. Even more remarkable than the sheer volume of tweets and the speed at which they appeared was the engagement rate associated with each tweet, which ranged from several hundred to several thousand times the average Twitter engagement rate.

Bots, Trolls, and Russian-Linked Accounts
Over the next several days, the hashtag was been picked up and amplified by Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations, as evidenced by its prominent position on Securing Democracy’s Hamilton 68 dashboard, which tracks activity in a network of 600 such accounts. These accounts include human users, bots, “trolls,” cyborgs (accounts that are automated some of the time and human-controlled at other times), and media accounts for propaganda outlets like RT and Sputnik.

Early in the morning on June 25, #WalkAway appeared as a trending hashtag on Hamilton 68. Trending hashtags are measured by the percent increase in usage by accounts in the network, and are indicative of a new and rising trend. Later that morning, #WalkAway jumped into the top 10 hashtags overall, as measured by the number of times it was used in the past 48 hours by the accounts monitored by Hamilton 68. Over the next several days, #WalkAway climbed from the 7th most popular hashtag among accounts linked to Russian influence operations (on June 25) to the #1 hashtag (on June 30), where it has remained through the time of this writing (the early morning hours of July 5).“; 7/23/18, 12:54 AM
heyboom said...: Don't really give a shit, Inga. The left is not going to win any major elections for some time to come, if ever again.

And if only the media would put that much effort into investigating all of the blatantly criminal things the left gets away with.; 7/23/18, 1:08 AM
readering said...: ...and when the day comes that POTUS reverts to all caps threats against little rocket man, the Trumpists will all fall in line to cheer that brilliant move also.; 7/23/18, 1:44 AM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/23/18, 2:06 AM
Oso Negro said...: @ Inga - Sure! Everyone knows that the interests of negroes and homosexuals can only be served by slavish devotion to the Democrats.; 7/23/18, 3:14 AM
Humperdink said...: @readering: I look into the sky over the Sea of Japan and what do I see? Sunshine, blue sky.

What don't I see? Test missiles from Rocketman. Hmm, I wonder why.; 7/23/18, 4:48 AM
rehajm said...: Presidential tweeting is the updated equivalent of the candid-comment-into-a-hot-mic-trick lefties used to love. At least when they did it.; 7/23/18, 4:56 AM
Michael K said...: I see the fool is still violating copyright by pasting long sections of someone else's text.; 7/23/18, 6:14 AM
Big Mike said...: Well, Inga, I’m sure you are perfectly correct. There is nothing to concern the Democrats in the #Walkaway movement. All fake! The Democrats should continue their lurch towards extremism — no surer way to victory this fall than that.; 7/23/18, 6:19 AM
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FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/23/18, 11:00 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Yes, #Walkaway is so fake that Democrats spend hours and hours cutting and pasting "proving" it isn't real.; 7/23/18, 11:31 AM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “Yes, #Walkaway is so fake that Democrats spend hours and hours cutting and pasting "proving" it real”.

LOL. That took me less than 2 minutes.; 7/23/18, 12:49 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “You should have more respect to our hostess when she blogs :-)”

Hahahaha, yes Althouse often posts an excerpt of and link to someone’s article without comment, doesn’t she? I most often comment on my excerpts.; 7/23/18, 12:51 PM
Gahrie said...: Every day the Left spends denying that the #walkaway movement exists instead of trying to deal with their problems is a good day as far as I'm concerned.; 7/23/18, 1:48 PM
Drago said...: Gahrie: "Every day the Left spends denying that the #walkaway movement exists instead of trying to deal with their problems is a good day as far as I'm concerned"

Only dummies like Inga want to disbelieve their eyes.

Some in the dem party are not so dumb.

"The Democratic Party Apologizes to Black Voters
The DNC’s bid to energize African American turnout this fall began with these words from Chairman Tom Perez in Atlanta: “I am sorry.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/the-democratic-party-apologizes-to-black-voters/565697/

Once again, Inga is about 2 weeks behind the rest of the left in talking points.

And you should have seen Steny Hoyer trying to convince midwest white voters the dems no longer want them to die off!!

Hilarious.; 7/23/18, 2:29 PM