Oh sorry. I should have referenced that. He posts the really fresh "policy changes" to his own modern Pravda called Truth social. That is where the "New America" rebranding was released yesterday. I refuse to forward a link. It is shamelessly full of doublespeak and ads.
_ Cody Smith _ [email protected] On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's this "Truth Social" thing you are talking about? Never heard of > it! > > It sounds like probably the American Arm of :"Pravda" (Truth)? > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm curious about how much traffic and ad revenue a naming stunt like this > generates for Truth Social. Trump and Co owns Truth Social. So I imagine > they get 100% of the ad profit from something like this. > > I found myself visiting Truth Social about ten times—first thinking I was > hallucinating, then checking if the account was legitimate, and finally > scrolling through other similarily bonkers posts. While my visits likely > only generated a nano-cent in ad revenue, it made me wonder about the > broader financial impact. > > I would like to think this ad revenue is negligible for them and not a > primary motivation, but I don't have any data. Does anyone have insight > into how much traffic or revenue these posts actually drive? > > Best, > cody dooderson > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM Santafe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep. >> >> Tribal bonding too. >> >> Early on in the first debacle (2016–2020), some commentator from one of >> the African countries (I think it was Nigeria) said it perfectly: trump is >> a troll. He is trolling the world. >> >> This is all about reveling in stupidity, to prove the point that the ones >> who are upset by it can’t make you stop. It’s just abuse for the sake of >> abuse, by people for whom that is what is left to want in life. What we >> can do about that whole make-up seems to me to be the core of the problem. >> >> In New Mexico, various small rodents will gather up whole bunches and >> clusters of cholla balls (little detachable thorn-balls that are how cholla >> carries its spines) and pack them in around the entries to their burrows. >> So that anything that tries to dig them out will decide to go try something >> else instead. (Until you have had these in your fingers, and transferred >> them from one hand to another several times, it’s hard to appreciate what a >> good strategy that is. Reflect for a while on trying to get one of these >> out of the tongue of a dog….) We need some kind of a rake. >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> On Sep 8, 2026, at 5:24, Eric Charles <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Counterpoint: All evidence is that it is working 100% perfectly. It is >> *not* an exercise in branding, it is an exercise in distraction, and >> you are distracted, The Atlantic is distracted, and CNN is distracted. It >> is an effort to get us to be talking less about how bad it is on the ground >> in our economy, how we are not-winning a war we never had to get into in >> the first place, etc. >> >> Best, >> Eric >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It is a form of rebranding, isn't it? Marketing is the only thing Donald >>> Trump used to be good at. But in this case it alienates and confuses >>> everybody. >>> >>> The Atlantic writes "American students are now the best at geography >>> because there is only one possible answer to every question" >>> >>> https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/everything-called-america-now/688443/ >>> >>> What is the name of the lake? Lake America. What is the name of the >>> gulf? Gulf of America. What is the name of the state? New America. >>> >>> -J. >>> >>> >>> -------- Original message -------- >>> From: Roger Frye <[email protected]> >>> Date: 9/7/26 8:47 PM (GMT+01:00) >>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >>> [email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Rename all the things >>> >>> Leave Jersey, York and Amsterdam, Hampshire, England, Brunswick, >>> Orleans, Haven, Bedford, Rochelle, … alone! >>> >>> > On Sep 7, 2026, at 12:34 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Do you find this urge to rename everything to America ("Gulf of >>> America" and "Lake America" and now "New America") embarassing? Will it >>> help to make America great again? 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