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Rezn8 said:
Not only has this country elected North America's least capable leader, they've also most likely elected America's very first illiterate president. It explains his obsession and hatred of President Obama, whose intellectual brilliance, likability, and sophisticated charisma embodies everything he's always truly wanted to be. It also explains his hatred of colleges and universities, his disdain for science and knowledge, and why MAGA adores him - he mirrors their complete ignorance. This country is literally being run by an imbecile. Only in America.






















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Obama knew what he was getting into when he swore on the Quran on that unsprisingly warm morning. Or did he swear in on a copy of Marxists in Kikuyu?
 

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Silent Coup: How Trump’s Allies Are Gaming Algorithms To Seize Your Feed​

New research unravels the secret tactics behind Stop the Steal and other right-wing disinformation campaigns.​

Caroline Orr Bueno, PhD
Aug 10, 2025


A sophisticated strategy is playing out in plain sight that few outside of digital war rooms truly understand or even notice.

It doesn't require hacking servers or bribing tech executives. It doesn't even break any rules.

It simply requires understanding exactly how algorithms work — and turning them into accomplices.

I call this tactic the Feedback Loop Coup.

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Last week, I introduced the concept of Reverse Algorithmic Capture — a tactic used to force platforms to rewrite their rules through political and legal pressure. The Feedback Loop Coup is similar, except it exploits existing rules to flood the zone, seize the narrative, and bend algorithms to work in particular ways — even against the platform's wishes.

No one has mastered this technique like Donald Trump's allies and the right-wing media ecosystem that amplifies them. I’ve studied their tactics for almost a decade and I know their playbook almost as well as they do. Now, I’m sharing some of that with you.

The Secret Weapon Hiding in Plain Sight

Every major platform operates on a fundamental principle: the more engagement a post receives—likes, shares, comments, views—the more the algorithm pushes it into other people's feeds. The faster this engagement occurs, the more "urgent" the algorithm considers it, and the wider it spreads.

This is how a funny cat video can reach millions overnight. But in political hands, this same mechanism becomes a weapon. You can deliberately trigger the algorithm by manufacturing outrage so intense that it convinces the system that people — a lot of people — actually care about the non-event and want to see more content about it.

A Feedback Loop Coup occurs when an outrage event is staged so precisely and amplified so aggressively that the algorithm has no choice but to promote it to the top of feeds — where people who never sought it out will inevitably encounter it.

How It Works in Practice

The clearest example of this phenomenon emerged after the 2020 election. While Trump's loss was evident to anyone examining the numbers, his digital operation wasn’t ready to give up yet. Instead, they immediately pivoted from winning votes to winning the narrative.

Enter "Stop the Steal."

This phrase was short, punchy, and emotionally charged. It required no explanation; it conveyed both the alleged crime and verdict in just three words. On November 4, a coordinated network of Trump loyalists — from fringe activists to high-profile influencers — began pushing this slogan across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and a flurry of fringe pro-Trump platforms. They didn't wait for organic discovery.

Instead, they launched a synchronized barrage: identical graphics posted across dozens of pages, influencers with millions of followers tweeting the same phrase within minutes of each other, and carbon-copy Facebook groups suddenly appearing in every swing state.

The effect was immediate. To the algorithms, "Stop the Steal" wasn't fringe chatter — it was a major story exploding into the mainstream. Within hours, it was trending on Twitter. Facebook's recommendation systems funneled thousands into newly created groups. YouTube's suggestion engine served up election-fraud videos on autoplay.

Then came the media echo chamber. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — each in their own way — covered the "Stop the Steal" movement. This coverage generated new clips, headlines, and talking points, which the algorithms immediately began pumping out. The same people who drove the initial surge now promoted the coverage itself, ensuring the secondary content received the same algorithmic boost as the original posts.

When Facebook began shutting down "Stop the Steal" groups, this became a new outrage hook: "They're censoring us!" These posts triggered new waves of comments and shares. The algorithm didn't recognize that it was fueling disinformation — it only saw high-velocity engagement, which it rewarded.

The Feedback Loop Coup had succeeded. A baseless claim about election theft rose from the fringes to the center of America's political conversation — propelled by the very algorithms designed to keep people "informed."

Why the Right Excels at This

Progressives have executed smaller-scale coups themselves. In 2022, Democratic operatives repurposed the "Let's Go Brandon" meme with "Dark Brandon," portraying Biden as a laser-eyed antihero. They distributed it through aligned influencers, timed its release for maximum impact, and watched it trend.

But the left typically uses this tactic reactively — responding to narratives that the right has already established. Trump's ecosystem uses it proactively, often launching narratives from scratch to get ahead of potential negative stories coming down the pipeline.

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The difference comes down to infrastructure.

The right has built a seamless outrage-to-amplification pipeline. Conservative media outlets, MAGA influencers, talk radio, cable news, and elected officials work in concert. They push identical storylines simultaneously, using consistent hashtags, graphics, and talking points to create the velocity that algorithms can't ignore.

And because right-wing messaging often portrays Big Tech as biased against conservatives, any moderation attempt can be reframed as censorship. This "censorship" content triggers its own engagement spike, extending the feedback loop.

It's a self-perpetuating system: create outrage, get boosted, cry censorship, repeat.

The Connection to Reverse Algorithmic Capture

If the Feedback Loop Coup is a precision strike, Reverse Algorithmic Capture is the siege that follows.

Here's how they reinforce each other:

A coup floods feeds with a narrative — like election fraud. When platforms try to slow its spread, Trump allies frame this as proof of bias. This outrage fuels pressure campaigns in Congress, state legislatures, and courts.

This strategy isn't just about gaming the current system — it's about rewriting the rules to ensure you can game it indefinitely.
Over time, these campaigns weaken moderation rules, install politically sympathetic oversight, or force algorithmic transparency measures that bad actors can exploit. The next coup operates even more effectively under these friendlier conditions.

This strategy isn't just about gaming the current system — it's about rewriting the rules to ensure you can game it indefinitely.

Why This Matters

When algorithms are hijacked this way, they stop reflecting reality and start reshaping it. The stories topping your feed aren't necessarily what most people care about — they're what was engineered to trigger the algorithm.

This creates a dangerous distortion. It rewards the loudest, angriest voices. It pushes moderate or nuanced discussion to the margins. It makes conspiracy theories appear mainstream while making consensus facts seem contested.

It also hijacks the news cycle. Journalists, trained to treat trending topics as newsworthy, end up covering manufactured controversies as if they were organic phenomena. The algorithm hands the microphone to the arsonist, and the newsroom amplifies them further.

The most sophisticated players — Trump's digital operation, his media allies, and their orbiting influencers — understand that controlling the feed means controlling the conversation. And controlling the conversation is power.

The real danger here isn't just their ability to execute this strategy repeatedly at opportune times — it’s that they're playing the game in a way that permanently changes the rules for everyone else.

Coming Next: Moderation Sabotage

If the Feedback Loop Coup is about flooding the feed so the algorithm becomes your accomplice, Moderation Sabotage is about overwhelming the very people and systems meant to stop you.

It’s the tactic of timing your content bursts, hashtag storms, and video drops to hit when moderation teams are least able to respond—late at night, over holiday weekends, or in massive coordinated waves that choke the filters.

It’s the equivalent of a denial-of-service attack on truth, where the bottleneck isn’t a server, but human capacity.

And just like with Feedback Loop Coups, Trump’s digital allies and the right-wing outrage ecosystem have weaponized this into something far more potent than random chaos.

It’s a calculated strategy that is quietly eroding the guardrails of online discourse.

In Part Three of “Seizing the Feed”, I’ll break down exactly how Moderation Sabotage works, reveal real-world examples you’ve never seen reported, and show why this is the missing link in the algorithmic takeover strategy.
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What is happening in D.C. is not a crime response. It is a controlled trial for a national law enforcement takeover. Metropolitan Police Department data shows violent crime is already down 26 percent from last year, yet Trump ignores the numbers. He is inserting federal law enforcement into a city with its functioning police force to build the framework for federalizing urban policing across the country.


D.C. is the ideal starting point because the Home Rule Act of 1973 gives the president a legal shortcut. Section 740 allows him to seize control of the Metropolitan Police Force by declaring “special conditions of an emergency nature.” That authority bypasses local leadership and puts policing directly under presidential command. Once he uses that tool here, he can justify similar federal takeovers in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and any other city he labels “unsafe.”


This is where the One Big Beautiful Bill comes in. The Home Rule Act is the D.C.-only lever, but the bill is the national scaling mechanism. It consolidates authority, folds federal funding streams into a single control point, and redefines “emergency” powers to bypass state and municipal governments entirely. With it, he can strip funding from local departments, force compliance through federal grants, and deploy multi-agency “strike forces” to replace municipal police in any city he targets.


This move is not about supporting local departments. It is about replacing them. Federal command would override elected mayors, strip cities of their autonomy, and erase the independence of municipal police forces. The end goal is clear. Build a single, nationalized law enforcement network loyal to him, not to the communities it is supposed to protect.


Bottom Line: This is not just Trump’s idea. It is Stephen Miller’s design language in action, using law enforcement as a tool of political and demographic control. The D.C. move is the proof-of-concept, and the One Big Beautiful Bill is the scaling tool. Together, they form the blueprint for a nationwide federal policing model that bypasses mayors, strips cities of authority, and replaces locally accountable police with forces loyal to the executive branch.
 
DC_Dude said:
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Trump is using the attempted car jacking attempt against Musk’s hacker “Big Balls” as a excuse to implement this.

If folks remember, back in 2020 when the George Floyd/BLM protests kicked off in Washington DC and protesters were enroute to the White House.

Trump got scared and panicked and went running into the White House bunker.

Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged​


Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, according to a Republican close to the White House who was not authorized to publicly discuss private matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. The account was confirmed by an administration official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

BY JONATHAN LEMIRE AND ZEKE MILLER
May 31, 2020



Trump knows what he has been doing with the Government, Tariifs and everything else is not popular with majority of Americans, including his MAGA Maggot supporters.

He and his Acolytes know the clock is ticking for folks to come after them with “Pitchforks and Torches”.

Trump is trying to turn Washington DC into “Fortress Washington” to clear it out from any opposition to him and create a buffer between him and the rest of America.

But like everything Trump touches, it always goes to shit.

In the meantime, if you got family/friends in DC, tell them to keep their Ass off the streets and watch their backs, Trump is giving Law Enforcement the power to use Maximum Force against everyone.

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This is a “billionaire’s tax” structured as a royalty or sales tax on semiconductors from the most valuable company in the world, sold to China.

While it’s scary on a lot of levels to businesses and entrepreneurs, it’s what
@aoc
,
@BernieSanders
and
@SenWarren
should have thought of. They are so intent on income and wealth taxes on “oligarchs”, they have no concept of leverage in business. Trump does.

Potus is more progressive when it comes to taxation than anyone in the progressive wing of the Dems has ever been. The Dems should be celebrating just how progressive it is. The irony.

If Dems celebrated this as they should, republicans would be so confused. lol.

He wants to grab whatever revenue he can from our biggest businesses, which are owned by … wait for it … billionaires. He knows they will pay for something he has, that they need. in order to grow their companies. That’s understanding leverage

He took 15 pct of equity from a company. That is the ULTIMATE wealth tax. He diluted every shareholder, upfront , regardless of their net worth. Lol. A progressive dream !

Everyone knows how I feel about POTUS, but he doesn’t get everything wrong.

Tariffs are bad. They kill small businesses and entrepreneurs. A group he never talks about. He is dead wrong here.

And I disagree on most of the non-business things he does.

But when it comes to tax revenue generation , as I’ve said to many Dems over the last 12 months, if you want to generate revenue from the richest of us, give them incentives to give you money and do the right thing. Particularly for their businesses.

Trump gave nvidia incentives to pay probably 4b and growing per year, know that created 25b or more in high margin revenue.

Will this make up for the explosion of the deficits we face ? Not as it stands now. Not close.

But give him credit for knowing how those CEOs approach problems and opportunities , and using his leverage to generate tax revenues .
 


In breaking news, a federal judge has not only blasted the Trump Administration for misleading the American Public about their failure to release the Epstein Files in their entirety, but has also vindicated the 1000s of sex abuse victims who have been ignored by the Trump Administration, while reminding the public of the heinous and depraved sex abuse crimes Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of to set the record straight. Michael Popok takes a deep dive into Judge Englemayer’s brand new order denying Trump’s efforts to redefine the “files” as the Grand Jury materials, and preventing their release at the same time.
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