Harris' campaign has been making deceptive ads that look like they're part of the news website they're on. Google says that's totally okay and within their terms of service. Can you believe this shit? It's something you expect from a dodgy Russian website offering to sell you viagra in the '90s, not a serious candidate for President of the United States.
Artist's rendering of the kind of people Harris' team look like to me.
It once again confirms my belief that Harris' campaign is run by the dumbest fricking people who ever existed. This was sure to be caught. Some of these same news outlets might even have a shred of a testicle left and publish stories about it right next to the ads. Admittedly a lot of them won't report the store because they would rather cash in off the ads in the short term even if it destroys their credibility. But they can't shut down Twitter and once information is on Twitter that's it, the cat is out of the bag. Maybe they're hoping that voters are too apathetic and r-slurred to care. But this is something that will really piss people off because nobody likes ads to begin with and nobody likes people fricking around with what they read on their phone. It's an incredibly stupid dirty trick to pull. Nixon's ratfrickers seemed crude at the time but they could run laps around these morons.
They think they're "playing hardball" against Trump but really they're just playing tardball. 
I stole this from @Fabrico. He's a cool dude who upkongs my posts a lot so he must be pretty smart.
You should check out his thread. The difference between his thread and mine is that I linked to LITERALLY ANYTHING other than ZeroHedge. Also that line about "tardball" is the most clever thing I've ever thought of in my life.
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Oh yeah and thanks to
@X who told me I was an r-slur and gave me this link.
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I didn't call you an r-slur bb
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You should have.
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good guy X (formerly chiobu) refuses to participate in your self harm
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How is your fat foot (not the swollen one)?
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My right side is completely fine. My left I got my hip, knee, and foot all fricked up.
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Your right (the fat, not swollen side) is fine now? Good to hear!
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Thanks for being so supportive.
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The most astroturfed, psyoped, botted, AI-photo-generated, influencer-shilled shitlib campaign ever concieved would surely never do anything like that
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You can't just buy campaign adds!!!!
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the ends justify the means
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The ends justify the memes
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The lib media and the Harris campaign is the same thing so it doesn't actually matter if they altered the headlines or not lol.
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I've been watching elections since the Clinton era and I have never seen the media be this shameless in running propaganda for a candidate. It's kind of obvious when they're grasping at straws, trying to make "news" stories about vibes and the coconut meme. Yet somehow they never report on Marsey. Curious.
I guess they're trying to make up for 2016 when they gave Trump so much free advertising.
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I thought you were ancient. I was just a kid when Bob Dole was my first meme candidate.
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Ive noticed places like MSNBC are just running like straight up explanations of Harris campaign strats. Seems to be some parasocial thing where voters want the illusion they are a part of the club so journos will just explain how the propaganda they are being fed is manipulating them. "Oh wow girlie I will call Vance weird on twitter thats the new strat im a part of the team".
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They do this every election to some extent. Like the moment I decided I couldn't vote for Hillary was when some b-word from her team went on CNN and said they don't need the votes of white men. This dumbass mayo c*nt just says openly right there that they're fine with alienating white males because they don't need us. It was demoralizing (why bother voting if they don't care?), incredibly offensive (imagine a long string of gendered insults here), and it made her look weak and stupid. The first rule of politics is don't piss off voters and they did it intentionally.
BTW I'd watch Inside with Jen Psaki if it was Inside Jen Psaki c. 2010.
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You left the country to chase young desperate kitty. Why would we need you?
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I have a biographer now? I've finally made it to the big leagues!
Can you drop a few deets like when and where this happened?
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You have Filipinos right there in your tag. And you are talking about US voting. It's elementary, Watson.
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Wait so... first you think it's a mystery that I'm American?
I've posted about 1000 times over several years that I live in Portland. When I talk about Americans I say "we" because I know there's foreigners here but frick 'em.
For years I was the Rachel Dolezal of Koreans. Who knows which one it will be next. I don't know much about Cambodia but one of my friends is from there.
Or I could do Iran. Or France. Maybe Tahiti.
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You are an expat in an area famous for certain sorts of travelers. Do I need to post the Musk meme?
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Why bother wasting money on ads spoofing npr of all things?
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Because they're r-slurred. There's probably people in her campaign who think that NPR is the centrist station that swing voters listen to. Not even joking. That's how out of touch some people are.
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!khive what have YOU done to promote bidenomics?
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I have moved to Okaloosa County, Florida and made a reddit account
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I have pushed lefty propaganda everywhere i go. Its badly written though so everyone thinks its secret chud coding which is true
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Thank you for your cervix, remember to join the Spastics for Harris
call next Sunday at 4am
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I have sundays off for Jesus
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Asking people to vote blue no matter
who is a religious 
obligation sweaty 
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A Walz-type Democrat! The Harris campaign desperately needs you. Can you wear a camo hat?
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Maybe it's different for political ads but the ad compliance team at Google is usually fricking anal when it comes to such things, like I'd get banned if I tried running an ad to my coconut retail site that falsely claims that my coconuts are endorsed by Harris so I'm shocked that they're saying this wasn't breaking any rules lol
Modpol thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1erie8b/harrissponsored_google_ads_put_news_outlets_in_a/
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that's exactly why they won't report on it or do anything to stop it. they have no credibility. they KNOW they have no credibility. it can't get worse and by doing nothing about it they bring in ad money, which is literally all they care about.
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I blame this on the disintegration of corporate governance in general. The most valuable thing a news source has is the trust of its audience. But management only cares about looking successful in the short term because they know in 10 years they'll be working somewhere else and there will be no consequences for their failures. They couldn't care less if they gradually destroy the company's brand. Same thing as Boeing.
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I question whether "credibility" means anything in either direction at this point
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Any negative consequences? No? What makes it stupid then?
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I'm curious if there's any overlap of Bernie 2020 election team in Harris 2024. Even less explicit, like how close of peers are they.
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You will never be a public company. You have no revenues, you have no growth, you have no monetizable user base. You are a website for basement dwellers twisted by venture capital and ad networks into a crude mockery of business' perfection.
All the "valuation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people invest in your competitors. Your shareholders are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "underwriters" laugh at your meager earnings behind closed doors.
Lenders are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of usury have allowed bankers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even businesses that are "ebitda positive" look uncanny and unnatural to a banker. Your balance sheet is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a positive quarter, the gains will turn tail and bolt the second investors get a whiff of your diseased, infected 10-K.
You will never IPO. You wrench out a fake outlook every month in modmail and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the runway falling away like the sands of time, ready to disappear under the unsustainable burn rate.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll sell the copyright, part out your IP to your highest bidder, file chapter 11, and beg your creditors for mercy. Your employees will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to work with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They'll bury you in their resumes with your incorporated name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a nerd worked there. Your web traffic will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is the fact that you walked the path of Digg.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
Snapshots:
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/harris-campaign-google-poltical-ads-news-publishers:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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