Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign from the left…It's like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.
He ain't lyin', for a change. This is exactly what they do. Mass distribution of content. Dems should take some understanding from the tactic and do the same.
What he’s describing is billionaires- Musk, Murdoch, Rogan-against the people.
and none of it was true
'grassroots' is when the richest man in the world posts something on the massive social media platform he owns and then one of the biggest podcasts in the world talks about it too
They envision themselves as revolutionaries when they're just Robber Barons.
Truly a man of the people
No Waters: You are American Vichy Agitprop theatre. Cast and costume change aside, you are every network, newspaper and radio station that gaslit, sane-washed and seeded the outcome of the 2025 elections. You applaud the destruction of Our country and talk “guerrilla warfare”. Read up, warrior.
He is talking about fellow Americans y’all. Fellow Americans
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You got it perfectly correct!!!
Yeah and all fools believe it!
This would be the first true statement this malevolent moron ever said except “the left” here means conservative, right of center, center, left of center, & left, plus anyone that believes in empirical reality, reason, democracy, the enlightenment & the constitutional republic of the United States.
We need guerilla TikTokers, BlueSky-ers, and people to buy local ad time.
What a liar. No one suppresses information or buries facts like the right!
He is literally too stupid to even understand what he’s admitting to…he is ALSO too stupid to understand which one is grass roots VS which one is too down… he literally gets his talking points DIRECTLY from the president of the United States, or from Trump… every day. Every time. A dumb stupid sheep
Doesn't matter. The dodo birds believe him.☹️
The misuse of the terms I'd intentional. They are doing it to hijack the real meanings and diminish the potential for followers to break away from their propaganda. It is a predatory machine and natural part of their ideology of supremacism.
Is this double speak
Jesse Watters looks like a mug-shot line up for local sexual predators near a middle school.
No, the guerilla warfare is coming from the right. Democrats are still playing nice in the face of a full blown government driven propaganda push to destroy our country.
If you listen to the audio, that’s what he actually says.
Yup. And Dems have no answer for it. They'd rather "go high" instead of talking to the People and actually listen to the electorate, and it's cost them the govt.
Who would have thought the host of Fear Factor, which coerced contestants to eat disgusting animal parts, would be involved in destroying the country a decade later.
And unfortunately most American people are too stupid to know the difference. Nor do they take the time to find out the truth.
So they basically admitted it's not a news station that verifies anything.
That was Roger Ailes’s plan from the beginning.
He ain’t lying… This time.
My husband has a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and is a leader in antibiotic design was asked by Fox to discuss antibiotics. He responded with answers to the questions they would pose. They said, could you bring it down to level our viewers could understand? To the 7th grade reading level. THEY DUMB.
It is the polar opposite of grass roots
Ivory tower
"astroturfing"
Wonder how many women Jesse the Stalking Pervert stalked last week.
Us organizing together without the shroud of social media is the last thing they want, convening with your neighbors in real life will always be better than watching propaganda through a screen
Even Waters mother hates him! He’s the epitome of gross and disgusting!
The only lie Watters says here is that it's not "grassroots" in any way. It's top-down misinformation that is then masked as grassroots to make the rubes and casual voters think it's legitimate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=unB6...
And Watters is a TRAITOR to the Constitution and the American people. He will be stopped eventually.
Watching FOX News turns you into a brainwashed moron. Seen it happen to many people. Including my sister. Their lies are destroying us... but their buddies in "left wing media" say they're great folks. Not Russian agitprop at all (wink, wink, chuckle, chuckle). I hate them so goddamn much!
Aaaaand just because "somebody says or tweets" something doesn't put an ounce of truth in it.
The left being what??
Trust us, Jesse. We know.
“by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it” Yes. Yes, Jesse, that is how the concept of “everybody” works.
"Grassroots" is when the richest man in the world tweets something to his rich podcast friend and it gets played on the biggest cable news network in America
"against" the left
*against the left (not "from")
and by "the left" he means "western liberal democracy"
Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch, & others could never have become prosperous in Russia. They are prosperous because of the USA, our system, and our ideology. It's ironic that they have grown in wealth and power by trying to subvert our ideology. Beyond despicable. Treasonous.
They ARE prosperous in Russia.
Fair point!
He's telling the truth. @maddow.msnbc.com @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @profgalloway.com
Isn't this how the Cheney administration talked us into Iraq?
Information warfare for these guys means lying and slinging irrational propaganda that plays on confirmation bias.
They all need to rot in hell. I can't believe they can lie, so egregiously and so continuously.
F’ing WWF
The Supreme Court is the key ingredient that will allow fascism to infect & spread. When ppl finally experience the pain of a dictatorship, the 'guardrails' that once protected democracy will be long gone. We'll have sham elections like Russia, Hungary, China, N. Korea, etc.
Will allow or has allowed/enabled?
Yes.
Both
“Grassroots”
I don't think they know what that means
Also "guerilla". This is misinformation carpet bombing
Well, maybe if Rupert "Godfather of disinformation" Murdoch hadn't made it his life mission to disseminate fake news, we might not be at this point.
"Against the left", not "from the left".
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Even Matt Drudge has discovered it’s a scam.
Thankfully Limbaugh is burning in hell now.
Who could have foreseen Drudge Report becoming by far the most reliable source of news in this whole chart?
Needs an update, one of these entities is dead
I remember that chart!
@mcuban.bsky.social startup! A truthful media! It would do well to get the TRUTH OUT THERE! STAT!
What happens now that Rush I dead?
Ben, run for office.
Don’t forget Sinclair’s role in this shit too.
What is missing in what he said and your graphic? That the mainstream media launders it Thanking about you @nytimes.com , @washingtonpost.com ,
Mainstream media are the Laundromats-CBS, WaPo, FB, ABC, Sinclair media, NYT-they turn the crap into digestible one sentence headlines, if at all.
Wouldn't include Sinclair in that grouping. Sinclair is Faux News, fully in the RWSM team.
True
For decades (at least since @CNN day countdown during the Hostage Crisis), The Village of “mainstream media” has been useful idiots for / collaborators with the RWSM (right-wing sound machine) undermining of American Democracy. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
You actually need to add asmongold on this- his role is to get the incel basement dwellers psyoped
Drudge has been out of that loop for a decade. He was the originator throughout the aughts, but he's been anti-trump.
Well, not a decade, and still not great, but definitely anti-Trump.
These @foxnews who had to pay over 700 million dollars for lying to their sheeples.
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This is not journalism, it's disinformation. Real journalists need to call this out. "The left" is not protesting cuts, but the numerous illegalities and bad judgement in making those cuts.
They are not “news” and never have been. They are Fox Propaganda Network and always has been.
That’s fine, they will all feel it soon enough.
Oh god you made me watch Mr. Propaganda. I need another glass of wine.
Maybe then it's time for all our MEGA donors to start financing an alternative information warfare campaign. Substacks are great & all that, but unless Democrats or progressives have a similar communications Ecosystem blasting out the progressive message, we might as well be screaming into the void!
You mean, "...AGAINST the left..." not "FROM the left". I read the quote & it didn't make sense, then listened to the video. Ahhh, there it is! Edit button for the win, please, @support.bsky.team! Thank you!
All those shit-bags at Fox News laughing at planes crashing and losing our closest allies. They deserve nothing. They lie like they breathe.
#whereisjessewatersmother #jessewatersmotherdoyoustillhaveavoice #mothersdontletyoursonsgrowuptobeajessewaters #mothersspeakout #foxentertainment
Faux news fuxker.
It's weird to call something grassroots but then describe how established power holders intentionally take and amplify it.
Watters is one of those guys I’d love to see in a bar, just so I could pick a fight with him.
And it's all lies coming from FOX 🦊. Murdoch owns 2 enterprises that promote sexual harassment and create a hostile workplace. Aaron Bruns, Justin Wells, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, contributor Judge Napolitano, Kimberly Guilfoyle charged with sexual harassment, sexual abuse, child porn
He makes me physically ill with his lies.
Putin though FOX News has performed an incredible and apparently massive psy-ops campaign American citizens. We got caught with our pants down and it will take decades to recover from this…if we ever do.
Waters has a better understanding than Democrats.
it's not the main thing here, but, 'by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.' - obviously, that how 'everybody' works.
Right? That stood out to me too. And yet people love to hear him screaming in their ears. He’s that stupid and yet does huge amounts of damage.
He's exactly right. Blind squirrel finds nut. I've been saying this for years. Conservative invested in a massive information infrastructure. They have taken over talk radio and they have Fox, OAN, Newsmax on cable. Al Gore tried to start a TV network, Al Jazeera tried to start a news network,
Air America radio failed. LW news dissemination as a counter to the RW information bubble hasn't been effective. I don't know why. The left is a much bigger tent than the right, maybe that makes it harder for us to unite around a single message. Single interest groups always shatter our coalition.
Maybe because we’re not mindless zombies walking into the abyss. Although having all on the same page seems to work. Impossible to make Dems conform. We’re a ppl of ideas and sometimes we think our ideas are the only ideas. That’s part of it.
These people are obvious to the fact that propaganda can be harmful the general public? Or, it could be pure evil and they just don’t care at all.
Fox News is a disgrace
Irony isn't dead ...
BORING!!!
It’s HORRIBLE
“Expressing information” GTFO
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It is US against the billionaires
This man is not a billionaire. Is he not culpable? Our stand, is against bigotry and greed. The billionaires are a part of it no doubt, but there are MANY many more who need to be held responsible.
Yes, your brain should also feel assaulted but the amount of bullshit this piece of sentient bullshit is slinging out in such a short amount of time.
this man has issued some of the stupidest analysis I’ve ever heard i can feel my brain trickling out my ears
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Aw shucks Jesse is a little twitchy!!! Shocker they really didn’t expect push back and accountability. What in the world made these people think Americans were just going to act like citizens under a dictatorship?The walk in the park has now turned into a run for your life, run Jesse run!
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Revised it for clarity: “Someone says a stone cold, full-on absolutely horseshit lie on social media, Musk retweets it….” And about goes.
Whoa, he's saying the quiet part out loud. Did his mom kick him out of the will?
A blind man could have seen that years ago. Amplification of the ideology/talking points sent out to the targets - the masses.
These dumbshits can't stop telling on themselves.
Wow Ross, that's deep.
“the richest man on the world retweets it…” lol grassroots
yeah, but he leaves out the difference btwn the R & L warfare content; the R being propaganda, the L being truth, or at least best efforts can manage. that leftie truth bias again.
But he admitted he made up the condoms to Gaza thing! How is he not suppressing information while lying to his viewers?
The danger at tapping into populism is all that frustration and rage you stoke will inevitably turn on you once they realize you used them.
Watters said: "We are waging information warfare against the left" not "from the left."
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It’s a race to circumvent this before Father Time catches up to the cult leader. That’s the long term prognosis IMO…
the younger generations are not on twitter or eve. watch tv, much less Fox News.
Minor correction: Against the left not from the left.
This is literally how Trump was reelected. What concerns me the most is how easy it was given the circumstances. Even more concerning are the useful idiots, and irresponsible self centered shitheads who went along with it.
I'm old enough to remember when Rogan's disciples SWORE he wasn't far right. meaning i am more than four months old.
Yep. And it is "war." The left still doesn't understand this. It is an asymmetric civil war wage on our soil.
Infowars
Do I smell fear from the alt right that they are willing to instigate their released Jan 6 felons to attack peaceful protestors?
He’s absolutely correct. It’s why they’ve gained so many followers and die hard believers. It’s all orchestrated. And it’s been building for years. They reach millions in minutes. The left takes days and months to get a message out that only some people see. Time to get with the program! Wake up!
This has been their M.O. for decades now. AI, right-wing propaganda and social media has accelerated their goal of destroying checks and balances.
Since I simply cannot bear listening to him, I tried watching with the subtitles. Jeez, but Jesse's jazz hands are distracting.
Boycott LA Olympics 2028
Yep... And it's happening worldwide. Musk has become the hub and all the client distributors then kick in. In the UK is GB news and, mainly, Murdock owned press plus the mail. The right have been v effective at mobilisation; the left need to move & fast.
Projecting again😂
Yeah, heh heh...it's so amazing how state media works.
@aoc.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social How can the people build a similar weapon but for good? Who are the right players?
Elon. The first Grassroots Billionaire!
Watters says "AGAINST" the left, not "FROM" the left. Changes the whole meaning.
Lies and distortions of reality spread fast.
The democrats need to do the same. But on a much larger scale!
Free lies where they normalize, taking from poor children on Medicaid and giving it to the rich. Fuck you Fox News. The first thing that needs to be burned is the Haritage Foundation. The second one is Fox News.
An idiot spreading lies
His mother hates him
They are scared.
I don't think they're scared at all--they're cocky.
Don't leave out Facebook and its algorithms because people believe that bullshit.
Watters: “And by the time it reaches Faux, all of MAGA thinks it was their own idea, in their own best interest.”
I can't stand this fool.
My similar thoughts bsky.app/profile/plan...
Shit hook !!! 😆
A vast rightwing conspiracy...where have I heard that before?
He means they are running a misinformation warfare
Not welcome her nobody cares what this tool has to say .
"By the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it." That's Yogi-esque.
I'm calling bullshit on this. Last I heard, Taylor Swift has more followers than Musk. Beyoncé, Oprah, Ariana Grande, Springsteen et al. Harris social team KILLED it. MSNBC, CNN covered her rallies. Millions saw it all.
Watters is a 21st century backslider to pre-WWII. He is not unique. American Media figures like Watters are the reason Hitler was so successful. Watters is a Fascist tool.
Truth and facts are not nearly as compelling as lurid scapegoating and bias confirmation. We're going to have to take some people off the air first
Agreed. The liars need to lose their platforms. Should've happened after their involvement in the white terrorist insurrection.
Never mind that no one in that media space makes any attempt to verify the "something" that "someone says on social media". More often than not "someone" is just making shit up out of thin air.
Only those in control, the authority, the power can suppress.
A pretty big typo right up front here. I transcribed it to get the whole (laughably, teeth-gnashingly bullshit) statement. Vintage Watters crap.
Watters is awful. But on this particular point he is absolutely right. The Dems are getting boat raced by the right on information warfare and reaching people at scale. This is one of the few times he isn’t lying
I’m not saying Dems are winning on messaging now, but the idea that the right doesn’t use top-down message control is a goddamn lie. And nobody knows that better than Watters, who owes his career to the media empire Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch built.
That’s fair. I would say the Right does the “everything everywhere all at once” approach to messaging. They understand that people are easily manipulated. That’s their edge. Meanwhile Chuck Schumer is doing a press conference talking about avocados b/c a consultant told him to
What you are saying and what Watters said in that clip are pretty different things. I don’t disagree with you that the right is firehosing the public - but that’s exactly what JW claims THE LEFT is doing! while he pretends the right is “just paying attention to what the grass roots want”.
There is ‘grass roots’ right wing people. We have to recognize that. And the billionaires that run the Republican Party are great at getting them riled up. Anyways don’t want to argue over semantics. The key thing is the Dem leadership is hapless right now and needs to change
I hate that guy and most of the Fox people spreading lies.
You need to call out musks drug fuelled tweets. Now Batman is real life! Hide his drugs
@acyn.bsky.social, in your post here, the phrase "from the left" should be "against the left," as in the actual Watters clip and its captioning. Many have already reposted this, but it's confusing enough that it takes about half the impact away. Please consider deleting entirely and reposting.
"Grassroots" = the world's richest man using the social media platform he owns
He's done a bait and switch. Grasstops describes the thing he's talking about with Musk. Tops= from persons of influence. Roots = frontline, average people. I commented on this in another post that this would sound SO legit to someone who never took a rhetoric course.
Pretty wild of Watters to tell the world that FOX doesn't play a role in the news until a random person posts it, Musk, then Rogan. In that case, what do we need Fox News for then? Musk and Rogan already spew to the masses. Fox is moot. Thanks Watters I found some waste!
He's right though and the democrats haven't fucking figured it out yet and it's why they keep losing elections they NEVER should lose. How the fuck the left keeps getting out messaged yewr after year is depressing as hell.
You got that wrong. He literally said AGAINST the left. A media outlet , whose tagline is fair and balanced, said they are at war with the left and they are doing it by flooding the zone with bullshit. I mean we know they do it, but now one of their idiot mouths has explicity documented it
The words 'AGAINST THE LEFT' struck me as more important than the how, which we already know anyway. I think that the people should mount protests at Fox News, just as strong as protests against Trump or Musk. The US would not be in this situation without Fox; they provided the echo for Trump lies
We formally reject the legitimacy of the Trump administration and do not recognize it as the lawful governing authority of the United States. #3E
Sickening
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
Why?
Fox News is the enemy of the people.
As is the White House, the majority of Congress, and 5/9ths of the Supreme Court.
In other words we gladly partake in the cog of fake news because it attracts more viewers and gives us more money Gee no wonder America remains divided, because they thrive on bullshit!
Well congratulations to all of them for being nothing more than a flock of parrots, then. They should give investigative journalism a try, I bet their audiences would eat it up
All MSM outlets fired their investigative journalists 20 years ago because investigative journalism isn't as profitable as giving opinions and repeating press releases.
YET AGAIN Ds allow MAGA/GOP to out-message us. Y aren’t Ds doing out own version of this for Good? If we did, we would win. We get nothing unless we win! Why not create a messaging/PR/Left Wing Mass Multi Media to WIN ELECTIONS! @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov
No, not Fetterman. Are you kidding?
Thank you, jeez… I thought I was losing my mind. Imagine having actually popular and true information pumped out this way lol.
Abraham Lincoln said that when political /legal avenues for redress fail, next is the people's undeniable revolutionary right to replace government. Guillotines are easily built and function well. #MoreLuigis and #MoreOswalds are part of the post-political process.
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He's confessing.
SUCH a f*ckin LIAR!
Watters is thick as pig shit isn’t he? Truly odious individual.
against the left ✅
Waters,YOU are waging war on the USA through your fascist,state TV channel.You make up stories, laugh and behave badly,then call it news.These aren’t even YOUR stories. They are thrust upon to you. Fox does not report the news, it makes up content. Phone number to text Jesse Waters 1-929-286-7479
So, the conservative right has declared war on the rest of us...? There's an answer to that. I'd sure love Watters and Musk and the rest to show up and fucking try us. Instead, they hide, and they snivel and grovel with their tongues hanging from Trump's asshole trying to divide us. They want war?
He actually says we are waging a…warfare campaign against the left. He’s right.
Bro just admitted their entire playbook is viral nonsense with a billionaire megaphone.
Now it’s “Musk Meltdown” instead of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” - as if there’s nothing to be reacting to, it’s just us overreacting. 🖕🏼
This is straight Russian Kompramat.
His concept of "everyone" is "millions". Yogi would agree .
He forgot the dis-
Exactly - they control all of the largest channels of information and its gets blasted before anyone can get out the facts. Secondly - once people have made up their mind about something they move onto something else. There is no going back to verify truth... its totally fucked.
This is actually funny because I once met someone who worked for the RNC and he stated the entirety of the Republican party was based off astro-turfing and if astro turfing stopped the party would collapse in a few months.
Fucking hate this twat. He’s another dumb as rock puppet.
Folks need rewired. Analog Community Old school, talking to folks!
Waters is a foolish and stupid asshat.
It’s psychological warfare, plain and simple. We are at war, we just haven’t started shooting each other yet.
He’s not wrong! Dems need to do this!!!!
It’s easier to message around lies
How does this dude look at himself in the mirror? Just nothing there at all. We are indeed inside the matrix.
Imagine that. And Watters probably never even heard of Samuel Clemens.
“AGAINST” the left…not “from” the left. I was confused until I listened.
He's never getting invited to Thanksgiving again, I hope he knows that.
Propaganda you learned from Putin and hitler you spew hate and lies you should resign and leave this country jesse
Constant gaslighting.
Also, he omits the fact that the someone who says something on social media is the current president of the United States.
Happy they are admitting Joe “just letting people talk” Rogan is part of the right wing talking points distribution network.
It’s almost as if the right is waging information warfare.
Always has been. And now with Russian guidance, financing and training.
Because Americans were purely good, innocent creatures earlier... They don't have financing. They dont know about information warfare and propaganda... They need Russian guidance for that? Get real Mr Tractor Man
You missed the point entirely but I won't hold it against you. PS. I never said Americans were purely good, innocent creatures.
No Im not missing your point at all... you said something about Russian guidance... Im making the point that they do not need that (guidance), to either do, or be motivated to do, what they are doing...
It is either a very strange cope, that Americans use to divert responsibility for hemselves... "because we cant be this evil by ourselves... its Russia's doing! Or intentional propaganda, designed to make the US look even weaker than it is... (because that is what repeating this lie does)
Let's see: GOP representatives quote Russian propaganda in Congress. Multiple right wing influencers caught accepting Russian money - Tim Pool, for example. GOP sabotaged aid to Ukraine. Trump wants to implode NATO and is aggressive against the EU and Putin. Please, stop with the self righteousness.
Small correction, is MORE aggressive against the EU than has ever been with Putin.
Youre still making the same mistake. Because you are coping. You cant even imagine, he would do that, because of i dont know... an "America first" strategy or something crazy like that? A divided Europe cant be in the intererest of the new Oligarch Technofeodalist class?
They are cutting, and want to cut, more funding for many reasons. They block all sorts of aid for many reasons. They do all sorts of things, because they believe thats in their/'their' America's interest. But hey...feel free to believe America is Russia's Bitch completely.
Of course it can. It removes Europe as an economic/ industrial/ technological competitor.
Which is a non sequitur to my statement. Are you really trying to have an argument with me that there's no Russian influence within America's right, MAGA and the GOP when Trump's bending over to Putin right now? Seriously?
No, im not.
Like we hadn't noticed. The best I can do is play along and steer it my way to distort the message.
