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LOL, Twitter bots: Obama was golfing during Katrina! (Original Post) HAB911 Aug 2017 OP
W...T...F!!!??? Docreed2003 Aug 2017 #1
I cannot stop watching this gif Quayblue Aug 2017 #11
Lol...it's my fave and is entirely too appropriate most days! Docreed2003 Aug 2017 #13
He may have been golfing BUT he was not the President! Laf.La.Dem. Aug 2017 #2
They need to get smarter bots. Bush was POTUS at the time. Vinca Aug 2017 #3
RWers' memories aren't that long. Mariana Aug 2017 #18
Unfortunately, t-rump's supporters are not that bright Iliyah Aug 2017 #4
Wait til you see the statue he erects to himself looking like yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #15
They are too stupid for words. padah513 Aug 2017 #5
It is almost infinitely more likely that Trump was golfing during Katrina... nt ExciteBike66 Aug 2017 #6
I agree 100%. The President of the United States was woefully negligent during Hurricane Katrina. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2017 #7
He was eating cake at McCain's Birthday bash ChubbyStar Aug 2017 #8
I suppose Trump was trying to intentionally echo Dubya's Ground Zero loudspeaker moment.... Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2017 #12
Yeah, just like he was absent on 9/11 Retrograde Aug 2017 #9
These are 100% bots. See how they repeat the same exact formula (that's what bots do, once created) anneboleyn Aug 2017 #10
yip Johonny Aug 2017 #16
You cannot fix stupid mcar Aug 2017 #14
these fuckwads are mentally deficient racists spanone Aug 2017 #17
Tell a lie often enough ... lpbk2713 Aug 2017 #19
New Twitter Propaganda Explores Just How Gullible Trump Supporters May Be HAB911 Aug 2017 #20

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
18. RWers' memories aren't that long.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:03 PM
Aug 2017

The ones that read that will fervently believe Obama was president during Katrina, and that he was golfing. Any attempt to remind them that Shrubbie was prez will get you an eye roll and a "Yeah, right."

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. Unfortunately, t-rump's supporters are not that bright
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 02:25 PM
Aug 2017

I read that t-rump was actually congratulating himself.

ChubbyStar

(3,191 posts)
8. He was eating cake at McCain's Birthday bash
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 02:35 PM
Aug 2017

Then flying over LA shitting up Air Force 1. Little Boots aka The Decider was Prezel Duncing then, looks like the tRump bots don't keep calendars or remember history.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,157 posts)
12. I suppose Trump was trying to intentionally echo Dubya's Ground Zero loudspeaker moment....
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 02:49 PM
Aug 2017

....with his "What a crowd! What a turnout!" thing, which arguably was the most photogenic spontaneous moment for Dubya in all his eight years as president (nevertheemind that his promise to get Bin Laden was empty and hollow).

Of course, that was after an intentional act of violence and long after the act had ended. Here, it's during a natural disaster and while the disaster is still very much unfolding.

And someone might want to tell him that invoking George W. Bush during a hurricane response probably won't help his image all that much.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
10. These are 100% bots. See how they repeat the same exact formula (that's what bots do, once created)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 02:46 PM
Aug 2017

Bots are very easy to spot -- these are clearly bots (likely Russian-generated)

HAB911

(8,873 posts)
20. New Twitter Propaganda Explores Just How Gullible Trump Supporters May Be
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 10:29 AM
Aug 2017

False news stories, especially about politics, have been circulating online for some time now, with the 2016 election acting as a lightning rod for them. There have also been plenty of hoaxes in the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s disastrous impacts on Texas—notably fooling Fox News into running a fake picture of a shark in flood waters—and those two phenomena finally combined for something truly absurd.

In what I have to believe started as propaganda by Twitter bots, a line began circulating that accused President Obama of golfing during Hurricane Katrina rather than doing anything about it:

https://www.themarysue.com/trump-obama-katrina-propaganda/

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