I think I read it here or on the sell-out blog that some of these trolls may be outsourced. Not something that someone who cares about their country would do.

zombies and socks, the Clintonistas at TOP truly don't care about the bona fides of their newfound BFFs, even if those "bold young voices" signed up yesterday or last week. Zombies and socks, paid trolls and ratfuckers--it's all good for the Clintonites, as long as they're doing their part to keep progressive politics and the Democratic Party far far apart.

A dismaying number of these twerps would, in their heart of hearts, rather see a Republican president than elect a mildly lefty guy like Bernie Sanders.

Edit: It may appear that this is a duplicate post, but in fact these are two quite distinct comments, quantum entangled.

Yes, and Kos is one of the oldest paid operatives:

Read this if you have a strong stomach:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/ballot_box/2005/01/blogg...

were genuine -- there are a lot of people who benefit from keeping the status quo exactly where it is especially if you look at the demographics (mostly white, well educated, white collar workers making good coin). Some of the newer folks, well, while I love Paul Hogarth (his Twitter feed when he goes to SF Giants game is a hoot though his player nicknames aren't necessarily family friendly...) I think he may have been directed to find a certain type of new contributor, ones who would toe the party line.

I call it the Davy Crockett technique. In the old 60's tv series, there was an episode where Davy Crockett and his buddy Bowie hide in the woods and set up lots of flintlocks. They then quickly fire off lots of shots in a hurry. This gives the enemy the impression that a whole slew of soldiers are ambushing them and they run away. Thus two guys drive off a much larger force.

The CIA operatives at DKOS do the same thing. They, with Markos blessing and knowledge, register under many sockpuppet names and use programs they've designed to mass rec diaries they want or attack those they don't. I even posted photographic evidence of one of their favored diaries going up and within 30 seconds shooting to the rec list. The program that decides what goes on the rec list is designed to value how many recs in a short time. This is by design a means to allow Markos gang to pull the Davy Crockett technique. In my pictures, you can see thier favored dairy had only recently been posted and had less than a third of an opposing diary's recs that had also been recently posted, yet it was on the rec list with far fewer recs because they'd sock puppeted all their recs at once using a program they wrote for that purpose.

I'd venture that the Bernie supporters outnumber the Hillary supporters 1000-1 on that site and the primary purpose of the Davy Crockett technique of massive phony ID's is to give the impression that there are actual Hillary supporters in vast numbers when in fact, there are very few.

But if we knew for fact there were very few Hillary supporters and that Bernie support was widespread, the public outcry for voter fraud would be immense as there is literally no way the election results are real.

The guy can't even punctuate. The quality of diaries - in style and grammar, as well as substance --over there has really taken a hit.

That said, now I think I better understand the timing of rolling out DK5, and the anonymous flagging.

Note: now you can't even tell if you've been flagged until you get a hidden comment warning you have to acknowledged.

Now it all makes sense. Yes indeed, we've been played, and Kos gets paid.

There's one a few comments up clearly stated as a GOS diary.

The link in essay doesn't go to DK, but contains a link to a Kos diary that lists the entire URL, clearly daily kos (dot) com.

Also, if you're on a desktop, you can hover over any link and see where it goes (generally).