Politicians are “stupid not to Astroturf”

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Tommy Styer, I don't know if you saw this, got in trouble for astrourfing.

[00:00:03]Now, what is astrourfing? When they can connect you to efforts to create fake accounts that um canote support or criticism, it's not legitimate. It doesn't come from an actual human being.

[00:00:16]And all I got to say is, folks, everyone's doing it. Everyone is doing it. I think Tommy Styer uh would be stupid not to engage in astrourfing back. Whenever I said anything about Mom Donnie when he was running, I'm not exaggerating, dozens, if not hundreds of accounts would weigh in saying all the same [ __ ] language. Love your stuff, but on this one you got it wrong. And then you press on the account and it's dogm 331 with four followers. If you're running for office, you are stupid not to astroturf back. Because unfortunately and what we will look back on this era as one of our biggest mistakes is we've decided to let algorithms, profit driven algorithms and bad actors shape our thoughts in the comment section. Because what do you do when you see a piece of content? You immediately look at the top three or four comments to see how you should feel about what you've just seen.