Model Train Journal

This is a CBS 60 minute report on how Facebook enabled the republican campaign to use Facebook.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-e ... et-weapon/

Facebook offered this to both campaigns, only the republicans took them up on the offer.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY FOR FACEBOOK..

Facebook had their own people embedded within the campaign teaching them how to use the platform

Brad Parscale: These social platforms are all invented by very liberal people on the West and East Coast, and we figure out how to use it to push conservative values. I don't think they ever thought that would happen. I would say the number one thing that people come up to me is, like, "I just never thought Republicans would be the ones to figure out how to use all this."

The offer

I watched that same report . It was amazing and informative , even going into depth about how they used color, for example, and pictures, among four choices of messages to help determine information about each participant.

Thank you for bringing this up .

I miss when things were relatively simple.

webenda wrote:I miss when things were relatively simple.

+1

"...Back when coke was still cola, and a joint, a bad place to be..."

Yes, Merle, They are.

I miss Eisenhower Republicanism.

"Are the good times really over for good?"
--Merle Haggard

"Yes, Merle, they are."
--Myron R. Moore

https://youtu.be/sxLtXJzo3Ew

webenda wrote:"Are the good times really over for good?"
--Merle Haggard

"Yes, Merle, they are."
--Myron R. Moore

https://youtu.be/sxLtXJzo3Ew

Thank You for the clip.

I knew somebody knew.

Nice photo Wayne! Certainly brings back memories of a nicer and more simpler time. Not talking about politics especially, just a time when people appeared to be proud of doing a good job, held the country to a higher standard, we appeared to have higher morals, more family and civic pride and truth wasn't something to be twisted (as much) to help your side win. It was never perfect, but not like the out of control BS we have today.

BH

up148 wrote:.....just a time when people appeared to be proud of doing a good job, held the country to a higher standard, we appeared to have higher morals, more family and civic pride and truth wasn't something to be twisted (as much) to help your side win.

We have since learned that appearances were at minimum deceiving, and at worse reality was simply ignored. The good old days were not all that good; we remember things very selectively.

Tom Dempsey wrote:I miss Eisenhower Republicanism.

Somewhere along the line, I learned that he believed that Congress should run the Country, not the President.

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:

Tom Dempsey wrote:I miss Eisenhower Republicanism.

Somewhere along the line, I learned that he believed that Congress should run the Country, not the President.

Considering how active he was as a President, that seems odd to me.

The main thing that got Eke elected was: "He whupped the Nazis."

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

up148 wrote:.....just a time when people appeared to be proud of doing a good job, held the country to a higher standard, we appeared to have higher morals, more family and civic pride and truth wasn't something to be twisted (as much) to help your side win.

We have since learned that appearances were at minimum deceiving, and at worse reality was simply ignored. The good old days were not all that good; we remember things very selectively.

We have since learned that the above statement has probably been applied to every body and thing. Before we figured that out the good old days were better.

rogruth wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

up148 wrote:.....just a time when people appeared to be proud of doing a good job, held the country to a higher standard, we appeared to have higher morals, more family and civic pride and truth wasn't something to be twisted (as much) to help your side win.

We have since learned that appearances were at minimum deceiving, and at worse reality was simply ignored. The good old days were not all that good; we remember things very selectively.

We have since learned that the above statement has probably been applied to every body and thing. Before we figured that out the good old days were better.

Yes, in some cases I guess ignorance can be bliss. Growng up in the 50's and early 60's was blissful. And once you take the "red" pill, you can't go back.

BH

I'd like to congratulate everyone for setting a new record! After the first response, the original subject of Facebook/Social media went off into the ozone, never to be heard from again.