“We all know the Trump campaign feeds on data, they are constantly mining these rallies for data,” Mary Jo Laupp, a former employee of Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for president, told the Times. “Feeding them false data was a bonus. The data they think they have, the data they are collecting from this rally, isn’t accurate.”

They will have a hard time determining what is legit and what is bogus.

Excellent!

back home on AF1. I wonder how Gym Jordan enjoyed THAT? Little toady was strutting around, shaking hands, "spreading the joy". It would be a shame if he came down with the virus, wouldn't it?

But then he would be taking up valuable space and resources in the hospital which would be much better saved for others who actually add value to our society.

...about as real as those "millions of tests" Trump promised us months ago:

Link to tweet

is that they managed to keep it on the down-low all the way to the shit show. Nobody suspected a thing.

then they've fallen for their own bullshit.

something, but were afraid of tRump's explosive temper when he found out. Poor baby has to be protected from reality. Maybe that is why Ivanka, Jared and Mrs. tRomp were not there?

Either they were very good or the Trump campaign is very stupid... or both!

I guess there was no cap to them, so maybe not.

Maybe some could register "throw-away" cell phones, but surely not all?

on how to use Google phone to generate “fake” numbers. Saw that at a NYT article.

I figure they got my info from NC voter registrations and are trying for everyone...even a registered Democrat who has voted Democratic in every election.

After I skim the thread, next stop is Google for WTHeck is KPop?

Super Trolls

It makes Trump look foolish, but I don't know how many might have stayed home because of the inflated ticket numbers.

Even for the racists in the Tulsa area that was a little over the top. They knew how racist Trump is and they did not want to be part of that cross burning.

....that the event was going to be a huge success.

In reality, there were only going to be 6,200 there anyway.

On the other hand, it pissed away a LOT of money from the trump campaign in building the overflow area stage, the outdoor television screens, and the other things needed to handle 40,000-60,000 people rather than a mere 6,200.

And the embarrassment factor couldn't have been bought for $5 billion!!

Assuming the Trump campaign pays its bills -- not a sound assumption, by any means -- their overflowing coffers just helped boost the local economy. The stage may not have been needed, but someone was paid to put it up and then take it down.

he will stiff them and deny it happened
what stage?

Anything and everything that directly attacks chump's delicate ego, I'm all in, but I had NO idea the power of K-pop. I'm learning more and more about them lately. As a technology challenged, gen-Xer all that algorithms, Google Voice and internet phone services stuff is a foreign language to me.

These young people are brilliant and have my utmost respect and will make sure not to end up on their bad side!!

Its great. Probably could do a tiny "K-Pop for Novices". Lol. And I'm still no expert. But have been enamored for some time.

Seems most times I've tried mischief like that. An email was required,

and the system would look for that address?...

to the registration system. I supposed this flaw will be corrected in future registration systems.

Just not enough passion for trump to leave the sofa. What's left of the magats, that is.

K-Pops story is amusing but it didn't keep magats away... trump did that all on his own.

They were pranked by a hoard of kids. This will dig Trump more than anything.

...but for all the claims of one million people going to show up, that number turned out to be less than one percent of that figure. That imaginary figure was with little doubt pushed up by these actions, even if the one million total was inflated by Drumpf's own campaign team. Egos no doubt got bruised after last night.

As a popular supermarket chain in the UK uses as their slogan, "Every little helps".

That write up suggests that tactics that would come right out of the /pol/ book of tricks were essentially used by these K-pop fans and their associates. If even a good bit of this was true, this would arguably be a big single piece of trolling that not even the sh*tlords have come close to achieving in terms of campaign disruption. While it didn't mean that more than 6500 or so were going to show up anyway, the inflated numbers meant that money was wasted by the Trump campaign team on the expectation of hundreds of thousands turning up - or someone in their team was too scared to tell the Drumpfenfuher what was really happening!

The alt-right and those that deny they're alt-right have just had a warning shot fired at them - screw around like you did in 2016 and we'll screw you back harder.

Fair play to them.

Dick Tuck (yes, that's his real name) was a legendary political consultant that was famous for pranking another Dick (Nixon).

Those tickets are worthless and only used to gather data, there are an infinite amount of tickets.

It did, however, get their hopes up (1 million people, lol) and completely deflate their momentum.

May have had an affect, but I'm guessing nat as much as his old schtick is wearing out, and the virus scared the more intelligent idiots away.

It was about pranking the Trump campaign into thinking there were a million people coming.

Because apparently Parscale didn’t limit the Total number of tickets Available, since hundreds of thousands of tickets were reserved. If they had limited the number of tickets to the venue’s capacity, and only 6000 couldnt get in because K-Pop fans reserved the rest, THEN we could give them credit for suppressing the turnout numbers. This would mean thousands of MAGA’s who WANTED to see Trump, couldnt.

But this is not the case.

But since There apparently were essentially unlimited number of tickets available, we can only give the K-Pop fans credit for creating unreal expectations for attendance figures in the Trump campaign, who burned when they discovered only 6000 Trump voters were willing to risk their lives to see Trump.

So kudos to the K-Pop fans for pranking Trump, but the real story here is That Trump’s support is so soft he couldnt fill an arena In a deep red state- thousands of his supporters stayed home, even though they could have attended the rally if they wanted to, because there was no limit on ticket reservations.

I think this shows us that most folks have enough sense to heed public health warnings about large indoor gatherings...

it was about inflating the numbers and making the Trump campaign look like fools.

We need to do more of this kind of stuff. It works!

trashing their data collection. That is more important than anything else related to the rally.

Their data is full of bogus information.

That's how these "tickets" work.

When the Chump campaign bragged about how many people requested tickets (available FREE online) I knew a prank was in the offing.

It's hard to believe those fools made it so easy for people to prank them.

Let's not forget that the RWNJs did this several times to Hillary's campaign in 2016.

I love to see a plan come together!

On my timeline was everything.

"Honestly jealous of the person who gets to explain to Donald Trump what a Kpop stan is".

Hooray for the cyber-savvy young folks! Nice to see you doing something good for our country!

Imagining huge packed crowds, and like all cowards, for all their bravado, they secretly feared for their lives that they'd get the "Democratic hoax virus".

if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.

The RatF@&kers on the right along with their Russian and other allies will step up their game in many ways and the net effect will be bad for Democracy.

I am curious to see if Trump and the campaign will admit they got played big time and that may have been a significant reason or the reason so many people did not show up.

They didn't sabotage anything. "Tickets" are a way of getting voter information and a rough estimate of how many people to expect. It made Trump look like a fool.

The tickets were free, limitless and anyone could come. The MAGAts stayed away all on their own.

And claim that this prank was why so few people were there.

He won't be able to resist the allure of a face-saving storyline that has the added benefit (in his mind) of being an absolute lie. Esp. one he can blame on foreigners.

He knows his knuckle-dragging f***stain followers will lap his bullshit up like nectar.

By Tuesday the wingnutosphere will be ablaze with headlines like "Soros-Linked Korean Cyber-Terrorists Ruin Trump Rally" and "'We Hate America!' say K-Poppers"

And the Trump campaign is therefore screwed! Hopefully these crafty and savvy Millennials will actually show up to vote this time around. They're most certainly not all a bunch of high-schoolers short of voting age.