By the way, while I welcome the rise of Russiaphilia, you guys do know this was a false flag (heh pun) right? This type of stuff goes on all the time.
Good example: During the Jeb Bush campaign in the leadup to the Iowa caucus, several of the people in the frontrow started heckling him and demanded they get paid "as promised by the flier." As it turned out, these were random students hired by a Rubio organizer and given fake fliers to make it seem as if Jeb had to pay people to fill his rallies. Though initially flustered because he's Jeb Bush and he's easily flustered, he eventually figured it out and turned the tables and exposed them. He was even telling the audience how
he had organized similar acts of sabotage against Reagan in 1980.
This is a garden variety dirty trick, one of the oldest in the book. It's not even that "dirty" to be honest. Good move on the part of whoever organized this. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted to do when I wanted to go into campaigns, and it's fun enough to drag me back in.
And here is one of the live action trolls in question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o49aM47qlwWatching this i have to say that's spectacularly obnoxious live action trolling, he's certainly working hard at the roll. Like you say this kind of thing has gone on since forever and is just part of how politics works.
