Trolls don't do this:

NCD — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 03:38:07 +0000

“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site"

yet:

"Blair’s page had become one of the most popular on Facebook among Trump-supporting conservatives over 55."

or:

“We live in an Idiocracy,” read a small note on Blair’s desk, and he was taking full advantage. In a good month, the advertising revenue from his website earned him as much as $15,000, and it had also won him a loyal army of online fans. Hundreds of liberals now visited America’s Last Line of Defense to humiliate conservatives who shared Blair’s fake stories as fact. In Blair’s private Facebook messages with his liberal supporters, his conservative audience was made up of “sheep,” “hillbillies,” “maw-maw and paw-paw,” “TrumpTards,” “potatoes” and “taters.”

“How could any thinking person believe this nonsense?” he said."

The WaPo reporter visited, in her home, the Pahrump lady and told her the Michelle Obama photo wasn't her, but.....

"Chapian saw the (you are a sucker) comments after her post and wondered as she often did when she was attacked: Who were these people? And what were they talking about? Of course Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton had flipped off the president. It was true to what she knew of their character. That was what mattered."

Couple of money quotes in

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:00:05 +0000

In reply to Pahrump Odyssey of Bigotry, Fear, Hate

Couple of money quotes in this piece, mho, on the essence of trolling, even though these guys were more into satire than trolling.

This is what trolls do and why they do it. To manipulate humans who are in a emotional state over one thing or another gives a sense of power, of being smarter and more in control

A new message popped onto Blair’s screen from a friend who helped with his website. “What viral insanity should we spread this morning?” the friend asked.

“Share if you’re outraged!” his posts often read, and thousands of people on Facebook had clicked “like” and then “share,” most of whom did not recognize his posts as satire.

It is used by trolls of all political persuasions and sometimes the actual political persuasion isn't that strongly held, because getting the sense of power from manipulation is the more important thing.

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Trolls don't do this:

Couple of money quotes in