Russian web brigades

So since Republicans rely heavily on the perception of public support for their most racist and misogynistic bullshit and having the majority of their public support vanish right before the right before the midterms is potentially a huge problem.

Without the amplification of Russian bots to manufacture the appearance of widespread support, what little shreds of momentum they had, not that there was much to begin with, is going to disappear.

And burning through half a billion dollars on ads is not going to move that needle one fucking inch, which is very, very, very sad.

Now, people have been trying to point out that just because a whole lot of fake and fake Russian support has disappeared does not mean that there is no actual real support like Trump has millions.

I think it's just classic fear-mongering, which is also the playbook with Russiagate.

And this time the culprit is Russian bots being responsible for basically everything wrong with Western society, everything dysfunctional about Western society.

For 10 years now, the blame has been put on Russian bots.

And there was a big effort to blame Russia for Brexit, just as there was a fake effort to blame Russia for Donald Trump's victory.

Another populist rebuke where people were fed up with the neoliberal neocon order and they rebelled in the case of Brexit by rejecting the European Union.

The, the latest conspiracy theory here is that because Ukraine bombed these Russian data centers, that the internet now is basically a magical place.

That, like, there's...

It's, it's peace and harmony across the internet because these Russian bots that are responsible for not only electing Donald Trump, uh, defeating the European Union in Brexit, and so many other populist rebukes, these Russian bots were also so toxic that by bombing this, these Russian data centers, the Russian bots have been vanquished and the internet is a safe place.

Well

... that, uh, Russian bots have been the people that you've been arguing with-

All right

... all this time.