Exhibiting behavior rarely seen outside a 12-year-old who’s found themselves banned from their favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! forum for dropping their very first racial slur, the still-technically-President-of-the-United-States appears to have tried to post through the pain tonight—a tricky concept, given that the pain in question was from his own lifetime Twitter ban. But Donald J. Trump has always been a maverick of going and being where he’s explicitly not wanted by a clear majority of people, and so the long and weird saga of our first Twitter-American President got a strange little epilogue tonight, as Trump bounced between his various still-extant Twitter accounts, trying to find one that wouldn’t immediately also get the banhammer dropped on its head.
But, alas, it was not to be: Trump first tried to use the @POTUS account—which he still has custody of for somewhere between 0 and 12 more days—to send out a message to…someone?…decrying Twitter’s late-era growth of a spine. But the tweet was quickly deleted by the tireless mods, which only appeared to embolden the vigorous Trump machine. They were soon tweeting the man’s words from the TeamTrump Twitter account, which was used for campaign posts for several years before meeting its ignominious end tonight, dying valiantly in an attempt to let the world know that Donald Trump is very sad he doesn’t have anything fun to do on the shitter anymore. (Before it went, it did note that TeamTrump has a presence on Parler, which, sure, maybe that’ll turn out well.)
There have been many questions, over the last four years and change, about what Trump’s tenure will do to the dignity of the office he so nakedly, fumblingly, and aggressively aspired to. But we have to ask ourselves: What of the dignity of the account? There’s something mind-splittingly odd about watching a tech company play sock puppet Whack-A-Mole with the President of the United States, slapping down tweets as they come crawling out of the woodwork to let out their insistent, unceasing whine. Where does it go from here? The man needs to tweet, to tell us his thoughts on Coca-Cola, or Kristen Stewart, or China. What depths will this madman sink to to get that next “For the love of god, listen to me!” hit?
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The smartest people use the comment section of the Daily Mail as a Twitter substitute. Wait… – Unpossible, Deep State, United States, 2017
You just know he’s going to try to post from his family member’s accounts sometime tomorrow and get them banned as well. This is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
I’m sure he’s calling up Tiffany right now to get her password.
“Does anyone have the number of what’s her name?”
Shit, lol.“Barron! Get your ass in here and bring your fucking phone!!”
“I told everyone you’re so good at computers. The best. Now get me back on Twitter!”
Does he even have her number?
Ydoesntdaddyloveme-93Just a guess
Ydoesntdaddyloveme-93I’m still cough-laughing at this comment!
She and Eric share the password
Eric can’t remember a password that long even with auto fill.
He tried more accounts. @TeamTrump is also suspended and I believe two more…It’s so beyond any level of dignity, I truly don’t understand how anyone is capable of looking up to him.
Correct, youll all be looking straight up. Youll be 6 foot underground but at least your face up. lol.
He promises ‘em a paycheck to opportunistically blow smoke up his arse. What price, your soul? They’re an entourage.
The funniest shit I’ve seen over this today is people crying out that the government should take charge and take control of social media. It’s like they are so afraid of socialism yet don’t really understand what it is.
Not it’s like. They don’t and never have. The cognitive dissonance (or pure stupidity) astounds me. The notion of Congress overulling state votes is intrinsically opposed to the supposedly constitutionally sacred states rights the right (especially pro-confederacy dildos) constantly bleats about, and yet: there we were.
It’s just like the conversations you have with a free speech ideologue who doesn’t understand that social media are a privately owned organizations, with terms of service that you agree to to participate and that the first amendment is protection against goverment interference. I had some guy argue with me that if conservative voices aren’t heard, no matter what nonsense they spew on social media then it’s only fair that nobody’s voices are heard. If they can’t have it than nobody will.
Well, while there’s obviously no First Amendment issues with censorship by private press monopolies (because it’s an amendment to the constitution of the US government, and private monopolists are not the government), there’s absolutely free speech concerns about it (because the value of freedom is not purely in freedom from government). Americans often seem to confuse these two, because historically free speech in the US is mostly talked about in a first amendment context – at least since Hearst died and the studio system collapsed and so forth.But the way that some people who think of themselves as being on the left have increasingly swallowed the right-wing myth that the only tyranny we need to worry about is the tyranny of the government is honestly somewhat concerning.
There is no point in history in which “free speech” has meant “free and unfettered access to corporate publishing platforms.” If my hometown newspaper prints 95% of all letters to the editor, there are not “free speech concerns” because of the 5% they refuse to print.Your argument is utter bullshit and you should feel bad. If you reply with more bullshit, I’ll dismiss the comment – and once again, there are. not. free. speech. concerns. if I do. Nobody owes you a platform, and nobody owes you their time either.
I got moderated and temorarily banned from Reddit’s AskATrumpSupporter subreddit. I didn’t take it personlayy or freak out about my rights. I pretty well broke the subreddits rules and went on with my life. It’s not like I have anything extremely pressing or important enough for anybody to really pay attention to.I just got into an argument with my father about Apple and Google removing the Parler app. CENSORSHIP he cried. No, they are not even a media platform. They are more like retailers. His only response was that I wanted us to turn into Venezuela. I had the same thought as you about your hometown newspaper and what they will publish as he was watching Newsmax. Would Newsmax allow Nancy Pelosi on to share her thoughts on this week? Hell no! Does that mean Newsmax is trying to turn us into Venezuela too?
No, that seems too simplistic. Private companies and individuals can also infringe on free speech and related issues.When Facebook, Twitter, or that Sinclair group gobbling up local news start to crowd out the field, they aren’t government but definitely silence voices. And for the most part, they are harsher against progressive content. When a large majority starts dismissing people’s opinions, the only difference from bakers refusing cakes for gay events or minorities being refused at lunch counters is the technicality of government regulation against persecution of race, religion, etc. But that can always change or get loop-holed around. It seems to me if you glibly support large private platforms dismissing other people’s views just because of public sentiment, the other side will ABSOLUTELY turn that around on you to support their own biases. But of course, you still have to figure out a line against the truly crazy harmful stuff. Just my opinion, thanks.
Twitter is going to be dealing with fallout from this for a long time. Tey did the right thing by banning Trump. But they implemented a global communication network without ever considering what kinds of speech they considered acceptable or unacceptable. They profited off widespread, including use by hate organizations and totalitarian regimes, while making sporadic and ad hoc decisions about banning individual users. And now they’ve reached the natural end of their aimless implementation style.
Ian Malcolm was right.“[They] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
“almost every case is different, that it’s tough to apply rules to every case, and that context is always changing. And that also means the rules must always keep changing.”https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210108/17022646023/not-easy-not-unreasonable-not-censorship-decision-to-ban-trump-twitter.shtml
“We wanted to disrupt the idea of ‘rules.’ For us, the essential thing about rules is that they’re made up, so we can change them depending on our goals at the moment. It’s like that kid on the playground who would change the rules of a game as soon as they started losing. Everybody wanted to be that kid, right?”- Jack Dorsey, I assume
Here’s another chestnut from that article: “The regular rules could never apply to Trump because Trump is not a regular person. And, no, not even comparisons to foreign leaders are apt, because as silly as American exceptionalism is, the United States is still different than nearly every other country in the world.”Apparently the far right doesn’t have a monopoly on dipshits who don’t understand how democracy works. But at least he takes a moment to call out American exceptionalism before declaring America as exceptional. I’ll bet this writer is the kind of guy who says, “I hate myself for saying this, but…” and then sexually harasses someone.
Well, private organizations have the right to moderate their platform full stop. When the speech gets dangerous then they have an ethical responsibility to moderate. If anybody doesn’t like it they can continue to use legal and legislative means to have Section 230 (also highly misunderstood) changed or establish new laws. It’s also not understood that changing 230 to make social media platforms liable means the platforms will just moderate everything harder. There is no net gain for them. They have Parler as an alternative. Look how well that’s going though.
But the way that some people who think of themselves as being on the left have increasingly swallowed the right-wing myth that the only tyranny we need to worry about is the tyranny of the government is honestly somewhat concerning.I . . . don’t think that’s the case. Sure, there’s quite a lot of “you reap what you sow” shadenfreude with right-wingers suddenly really upset about all this free market-ing when the free market decides it doesn’t want to deal with any of their shit. But I don’t think that suddenly means that the left haven’t forgotten about the monopolistic nonsense, the terrifying breaches of privacy, or the overall hellscape of American capitalism. It just means we’re enjoying the moment. We’ll get back to being upset about all that other shit in two weeks.
I have been playing my own version of Whack a Mole on FB, tirelessly* pointing out over and over again that the 1st amendment is only about governmental suppression of speech, and even that freedom isn’t absolute (yelling fire in a crowded theater, etc.). Any private enterprise has every right to protect their brand by policing violent and irresponsible speech and kicking out the nutters. Over and over again.*I lied. It is getting tiresome. So many whiners out there.
I have been playing my own version of Whack a Mole on FB, tirelessly* pointing out over and over again that the 1st amendment is only about governmental suppression of speech, and even that freedom isn’t absolute (yelling fire in a crowded theater, etc.). Any private enterprise has every right to protect their brand by policing violent and irresponsible speech and kicking out the nutters. Over and over again.You aren’t getting anywhere with this are you?I was in a discussion with a family member on FB on several topics she had completely wrong. She started answering back in canned phrases that I assume she got from How to disagree with a liberal politely or something like that. She would say things when she was cornered and without any cogent response like, “I guess we have a different relationship with the truth.” Umm yeah, true. We do have completely different relationships with the truth. I can’t remember the other things but she did it such a condescending way especially considering that she lives in La-La-Land. I just defriended her and that was that. I don’t really care to have a relationship. I’ve generally avoided bigots and idiots my whole life.She tried telling me once, “Do your own rEsEArCh” so I sent her a book on how to do research and methodology.
My own brother unfriended me on FB after years of bullying me on my own page. I never lost my temper with him (although my friends were angry and would go full ham on him). Until one day when I posted to make sure you’re registered, give yourself plenty of time to request a ballot if you need to, etc. because memos had surfaced that made it clear pat of the GOP strategy was a campaign of voter suppression —and he snottily said “Oh, and Democrats have *never* done that, huh? Hypocrits.” I replied “Is that your assertion? That Democrats are also currently engaging in voter suppression? Do you have a reputable source for that?” He wouldn’t give me a source, reputable or otherwise, just kept saying the same thing and “do your own research.” I patiently explained to him that wasn’t how a good faith argument worked—if you assert something, it’s on you to prove it. I got nowhere with him and I finally exploded and said something like “I’m sure if you go back 100 years, you will find at some point that Democrats practiced voter suppression and shady tricks. But I don’t really give a fuck about Tammany Hall, I care about the last 20 years or so—because that’s what has an actual effect on my current life. And right now the GOP is pulling this shit, they are the problem and we have memos to prove it and here is the reputable source.” (And I used Tammany Hall as an example because I knew he’d never heard of it. I guess I shouldn’t have made him feel stupid, it sure didn’t change his mind but this was after years of being bullied by him, years of him “yelling” as it were at me because I was liberal. The sad thing, I was always his ally in our family, I’ve always had great empathy for his situation in our family whereas the rest of my siblings were more like “suck it up, dude.”)So—no, haven’t really gotten anywhere with the 1st amendment explanations. I will say, there’s a great documentary out there that I recommend highly. It’s called The Brainwashing of My Dad—you can watch it for free on imdb. The filmmaker made a doc about how her dad had gone down the alt-right rabbit hole and had become a completely hateful dick to everyone around him. The good news is–they were able to bring him back. Go watch it, it’s both scary and hopeful.
I watched The Brainwashing documentary. It was good.The thing is these people don’t understand that The burden of proof is on them when making accusations. I can’t tell you how many people on the askatrumpsupporter subreddit talk about Democrats prove that they didn’t cheat. No burden of proof lies with you and also extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
I just mentioned in another comment that I just spoke to my father and he said that Google or Apple dropping the Parler app was censorship and antifree speech. I explained that those companies don’t host content unlike a media platform. There is absolutely no relevance to free speech arguments there. They don’t host Hustler’s Goolden Shower and Scat Play app either. Larry Flint must be rolling over in his grave about that.
Oh, the injustice! Now I have to go to the Dark Web for my Scat Play app.
To borrow a phrase heard from someone else:
“They all love the invisible hand of the free market until it smacks them.”
The invisible hand works like the monkey’s paw for them and all their bad faith. It grants your wish like Parler but also jams it up with so much spam and porn that it’s useless.
conservative voices
I haven’t heard any conservative voices in years. The Republican party long ago gave itself over to outright regressivism. They are not the same thing, despite the American political right still labeling itself “conservative.”
What amazes me is that conservatives never talk about reading The Wall Street Journal or even the The National Review. It’s all crazy, cray cray, cray cray. Fox News is now too liberal so NewsMax, AON and the Epoch Times are were they can be heard.
I think that’s what these dum-dumbs think free speech is. That they can say anything they want and nobody can tell them they can’t. So explain this to me just so I get it right, if the government owned Twitter, they wouldn’t be able to censor anybody is that correct? Or that the government couldn’t get involved with what you are saying no matter how offensive it maybe?
Say anything they want free from consequences. It’s entitlement. And then……when they get their hands slapped it’s time to play the victim. Twitter has every right to do what they are doing. If the gov’t forced them to be “nuetral” that then becomes compelled speech which is a violation of their first amendment rights.This is a pretty sticky and complex situation. It is concerning how much power social media has. I’m totally comfortable where we are with these bans at the moment as we are in a crisis. In my opinion Twitter, Facebook, etc. have a moral obligation to protect public safety.
States’ rights was a hypocritical rallying cry from the very beginning. They only pull that one out when the majority of Americans believes differently than they do, and have elected representatives who will do the majority’s bidding. The same people are perfectly content with federal power and an activist judiciary when it happens to be aligned with what they want.
Look, y’all are making some really good points, but don’t you have civics class to get to or something?
Yep. It’s almost as if —- hear me out —- many of these “patriots” have never actually read their precious constitution. Or their Bibles.
Or any other book, ever written.
The same people are perfectly content with federal power and an activist judiciary when it happens to be aligned with what they want.
You can replace “federal power” and “activist judiciary” with just about anything and the statement still holds. Right wingers have done nothing for years but complain about Democrats trying to rule by court decisions and executive orders, comparing Democratic presidents to wannabe-monarchs but their guy runs plays straight out of the John Lackland/Charles I playbook and they are 100% on board.
I hate twitterBest tweet ever
The best part is when they do that while simultaneously raving about China
I mean just common sense alone should remind them that in a couple weeks, “the government” would be Joe Biden and a Democratic controlled both houses of Congress.Who will STILL be pissed about the right wing agitators who attacked them in their place of work.
Understanding things is not part of their mental aptitude.
I’ve never quite understood what socialism is myself but unlike Trumpers I prefer to just keep my mouth shut about it ruining my life.
What did he do before Twitter?
Most likely converse with the various echoes and reflections in his golden bathroom.So about the same, except his poor, poor maid staff were the only ones who had to deal with the shit he left in his wake.
“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the stablest genius of them all?”
…Cocaine?
same thing he does everyday, pinky
NBC let him jack himself off on the apprentice for nine years
He lied and assaulted people.
national enquirer.
Called into talk shows and magazines under false names.
There’s an old article on politico about how Trump first got hooked on twitter. This part is too good not to quote:
He had McConney print out his Twitter mentions, and he would use Sharpie pens to scribble responses, which McConney would then type up and tweet out. After appearing at events, Trump, who remained distrustful of anything he saw only on a screen, had McConney print out 8×10 glossy photos of him for his signoff before they were posted online.https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/oh-no-the-day-trump-learned-to-tweet-1070789
Gossip columns and The National Enquirer. The “society pages” or People Magazine if he need to inject some respectability.
I wonder how many times a day he called Jeffrey Epstein back then.
I’m so excited to stop hearing about Donald Trump every day.After the inauguration, I don’t plan to think about him until I boo during Home Alone 2 in December.
That and when he dies.
I really try to now enjoy the idea of someone dying but the party I’m gonna throw the day Trump dies!
“I really try to now enjoy the idea of someone dying”EMBRACE DEATH, REJOICE IN IT BWHAHAHA!I assume you meant *not
I’ll be excited for the trials.(Yeah, I know there probably won’t be any)
I celebrated his Twitter ban because I imagine its probably the harshest punishment that he will get after the last 4 years. Which on its face is incredibly frustrating, but at the same time a free Trump without Twitter access is probably almost as unhappy as he would be if he were in jail.
I watched Home Alone 2 last month and noticed that he gave Kevin the wrong directions to the lobby.
Millions of bots suddenly stopped clogging up Russian internet. Sergei gets pornhub in HD tonight.
First they came for the violent agitators but I said nothing because I was not a violent agitator.Then they came for the bigots but I said nothing because I was not a bigot.Finally they came for Presidents Trump and I said nothing because I was not President Trump.So all in all it worked out great for me!
Gold
👏👏👏
I am genuinely LOLing–love the chirpy conclusion.
PLEASE revisit that comment in 2 years when your family has starved to death and you have only hung on through your willingness to kill to survive.
The worst part of this shit is that it’s going to make the same dipshit traitors who “stormed” the capitol yesterday double down on their idiocy and keep going.
TBH they’re gonna do that anyway. These people are completely off the deep end
All the people this week insisting that he could call off the extreme right if he wanted to are arguing against fact. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to and enjoys the attention. These morons are boiling with rage toward Mike Pence and Mitch Mcconnell and Lindsay Graham. If Trump made a sincere effort to unring the bell he’s been ringing loudly for years, they’d be out to get him too. “Trumpism” is an okay term for other politicians’ bootlicking. But in the general population, it’s a euphemism for a distinctly American form of racist, violent anarchism. Trump’s followers have been bombing government buildings and creating pathetic “ethno-states” in the hinterlands for decades. He just invited them to the Capitol.
This. Things are not going to get better on January 20. If his base moves away from him, it won’t be in the direction of sanity.
I was reading on Politico that some of his followers got pissed about the “concession” video and consider it him “throwing them under the bus”, so some of them might already be turning on him. Of course, others were looking for secret Q messages in the time stamps, so I won’t hold my breath.
Speaking of traitors. Fox “News” had an interesting way of describing them. Not as rioters or thugs, but “several bad actors.” I only know because I watch the early local news on a fox station and they are required to play a couple of minutes of the drivel before moving onto local coverage.
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i’m not james at fifteen or chachi in charge
There really is a Beastie Boys line for everything!
“Several dozen… hundred… bad actors!”
They have already been planning a firefight in D.C. on Jan 19th or 20th; I doubt that a Twitter/Parler ban is going to change their tiny, underdeveloped minds.
pretty sure theyll be busy spending time in federal pound your ass prison.
Like they weren’t going to do that anyway. Screw them.
Just how long until he’s reduced to venting through Pennysaver ads?
Dear Penthouse Forum;I never thought I would be President of the United States, but…
We got Hope a private office right next to mine, and lemme tell you, she was a super classy babe…
Does ‘Mad Magazine’ have a forum?
Junk mail.
Actually, it’s possible that he will try and advertise something through a newspaper. He did it before about the Central Park Five. My grandfather was a terrible vindicitive narcissist. Trump has been acting exactly the same as when my grandfather had to be forced out of the business he built because he attacked one of the employees, his grandson. It was everybody else’s fault. It wasn’t fair. We found out he was calling clients and sending emails to complain. One email to a client he signed off as The Commander of the Board! He called hois daughter one day to help him take out a full page ad in our midsized market newspaper. He wanted the add to say, “Crazy former business owner (insert his name obviously) is available to work for you” He thought people might know his name and want to hire an almost 80 year old. My aunt shot that down real quick.Trump will try any and every avenue to get his message out no matter how pathetic.
The media will report everything he says, at least the worst stuff.
I’ve been reading a lot of media analysis at things like The Colombia Journalism Review and they write that the future media will be more harsh on asymetrical controversy and outright mis/disinformation. That might only be possible in a perfect world though and wishful thinking.
I don’t think it matters what the real media does anymore. The people most desperately need of accurate information refuse to accept it.
https://www.psypost.org/2018/04/study-people-less-political-knowledge-think-know-lot-politics-51062The Dunning-Kruger Effect has become pretty well known outside of psychology researchers these days and it becomes obvious that certain voters suffer from it. What may not be known is that politics and particularly identity aplify this effect leading us to where we are now.From Dr. David Dunning:the key to the Dunning-Kruger Effect is not that unknowledgeable voters are uninformed; it is that they are often misinformed—their heads filled with false data, facts and theories that can lead to misguided conclusions held with tenacious confidence and extreme partisanship, perhaps some that make them nod in agreement with Trump at his rallies. We found that voting was strongly tied to one thing—whether those who took the survey thought of themselves as “well-informed” citizens. But perceiving oneself as informed was not necessarily tied to, um, being well-informed. All it took was a candidate to come along too inexperienced to avoid making policy gaffes, at least gaffes that violate received wisdom, with voters too uninformed to see the violations.A more recent study by Ian Anson: Abstract: A widely cited finding in social psychology holds that individuals with low levels of competence will judge themselves to be higher achieving than they really are. In the present study, I examine how the so‐called “Dunning‐Kruger effect” conditions citizens’ perceptions of political knowledgeability. While low performers on a political knowledge task are expected to engage in overconfident self‐placement and self‐assessment when reflecting on their performance, I also expect the increased salience of partisan identities to exacerbate this phenomenon due to the effects of directional motivated reasoning. Survey experimental results confirm the Dunning‐Kruger effect in the realm of political knowledge. They also show that individuals with moderately low political expertise rate themselves as increasingly politically knowledgeable when partisan identities are made salient. This below‐average group is also likely to rely on partisan source cues to evaluate the political knowledge of peers. In a concluding section, I comment on the meaning of these findings for contemporary debates about rational ignorance, motivated reasoning, and political polarization.
I’m trying to cope with a friend’s husband who is newly “radicalized”. He was in Washington on Wednesday but saw no violence, so..there was none? I can’t see the moon right now, does that mean it doesn’t exist?
Was this person there for the protest? Has he turned on a TV or read a newspaper since then? Five people are dead and at least two of them died violently. Is this person pro-life?
He was on the Mall on Wednesday. He got nowhere near the Capitol. He says only 4 people died, the shooting of the woman was actually staged to discredit the movement. I don’t really know what hooked him into all of this. He has a pretty pathetic need to be seen as a hero and “real man”. Maybe that’s enough?
Seriously. Wow, just wow. This was a text from my father to myself, my brother and my mother.This is not a test or a joke! Get ready for the next 10 to 14 days to be the most important since World War II it has already started, President Trump has signed insurrection act, last night and major arrests are being made around the world, especially in Italy in the Vatican. Other countries around the world are experiencing blackouts and other arrests are being made! Sincerely, make sure you have a Lotta extra water, extra food, extra fuel in the form of propane gas and charcoal and get ready to dig and watch how the world and the United States are saved! I Love you all and I’m sure that we will make it through this for the betterment of everyone! ❤️🇺🇸 BTW, I’ve never been more sincere or concerned!So many questions! So if Trump activated the insurrection act, wouldn’t it be to use against his own team after last week? I have seen no news of this after searching for it. Fake new media mob must be hiding it from us. What does this have to do with Italy? (I know what it is he thinks the Vatican is with the jews and hiding child sexual abuse). He’s not exactly prepping. This kind of paranoia is palpable.An Act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrectionsBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.
Yeah, that kind of “FW:FW:FW:THIS IS IT!!!” Stuff is as old as e-mail, though I don’t doubt it is peaking right now.
It’s all on social media now. I’m on reddit where messages like my father are being reported. One person got a voicemail from his mother saying it was the real deal this time. She knows because twitter and Facebook won’t let her post because her accounts blocked. I wonder why?
I thought for sure he would attend the inauguration just to try to speak.
“Kanye, my buddy, I really loved that move you did on Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Teach it to me, will you?
I’m seeing an infomercial the last few days that essentially is a two hour block of them trying to sell the public on the idea that the election was stolen. I’ll be honest, I didn’t watch much. What I did see was primarily “why don’t the Democrats want the election to be legitimate? Why are they stonewalling basic investigations?” and “these vote totals were too good to be true, and they are” without any actual… you know… proof.
Why don’t Democrats want the election to be legitimate? Does that mean that they can’t even establish motive for their alleged crime? Conservatives sure like lake semi-vague insinuation. I guess that’s all you can do when there is no proof of anything.
Nah. He’d have to pay for those.
Yeah, but he could tell his followers he needs $50 million to place the ad, collect it from them, spend $5 on it and pocket the rest. By the way, where IS all that money for his “overthrow America” fund they collected?
If I had to guess, somewhere off-shore after being transferred through several anonymous, numbered LLCs. I could be wrong.
that was to pay off campaign debts.i still say a trump megachurch is coming…..
But he still refuses to post through Kinja.
A man’s got to have a code.
Do we know for sure he wasn’t that gerbil?
We’ve all known that Trump is total narcissist and sociopath. It HAS to all be about him. ALL eyes must be on him. Given even half a chance, he will consume all the oxygen in the room and would stab his own children if they got between him and a TV camera.The thought of being ignored is abhorrent to him. Painful even. Knowing that he cannot broadcast what passes for his thoughts out to the world, so we can all be impressed by his brilliance, it eating him up inside.Good.
The thought of being ignored is abhorrent to him.Without Twitter Trump will suffer ego annihalation and regression to the internal primordial animus shadow as his narsissistic supply, his psyche’s source of primal energy and imagined omnipotent power fades into the abyss of his perceived psychic obliteration of the fragile pseudo-self to which true reality was forever out of reach. That’s my best pseudo-Freudian analysis. We’ve all known that Trump is total narcissist and sociopath. It HAS to all be about him. ALL eyes must be on him. Given even half a chance, he will consume all the oxygen in the room and would stab his own children if they got between him and a TV camera.This is all true and without hyperbole from a more modern psychological standpoint. My prediction is that we will see some serious narcissistic meltdown beyond what we’ve seen with or without Twitter. My cousin has worked with pretty troubled people for years. I asked if he had ever seen somebody so self-referential and unable to understand his immediate context without having to constantly relate it to himself. His reply was, “Yeah. I worked with them in prisons”
I half expect him to actually show up at the inauguration riding a glider and throwing pumpkin bombs, screaming “OUT, AM I?”
*golf cart*orange feces
He’d be the Orange Goblin, wouldn’t even need a monster mask.
Trump’s already said he plans on holding an alternate event.If this week was any indicator—and it should be—the National Guard needs to be in place the day before. Very visibly in place. In full riot gear (with bundles of zip-tie cuffs at the ready) in support of the DCPD and at the command of the D.C. Mayor. They also need to be visible as sentries at the Capitol, the White House and at the Supreme Court, our three legitimate and coequal branches of government.Also, the inauguration itself needs to be moved indoors at the White House and televised, concluding with Biden taking his seat at the Resolute Desk and immediately reading the Constitution aloud. This would be so that everyone can see that he knows what it actually says and that he understands what his powers as President actually are, unlike his immediate predecessor.Biden should then go into a signing session. It doesn’t matter what he’s signing as long as he’s visibly shown to be at the wheel.Not a second of airtime should be devoted to Trump’s departure by the networks, even if it would show him literally being dragged out of the White House by the Secret Service. We can see it later on YouTube or TMZ. Don’t give the bastard the free publicity.
It would be nice if his “alternate event” consisted of him openingly weeping in a federal prison.
Also, the inauguration itself needs to be moved indoors at the White House and televised, concluding with Biden taking his seat at the Resolute Desk and immediately reading the Constitution aloud. This would be so that everyone can see that he knows what it actually says and that he understands what his powers as President actually are, unlike his immediate predecessor.Biden should then go into a signing session. It doesn’t matter what he’s signing as long as he’s visibly shown to be at the wheel.That’s a really great suggestion.
“I half expect him to actually show up at the inauguration riding a glider and throwing pumpkin bombs, screaming ‘OUT, AM I?’”Biden: Cancel the Macy Gray performance.
Indeed. I think the only reason he hasn’t personally murdered anyone (that we know of) is that back in the ‘70s Roy Cohn convinced him that it would make him look bad.
I think the only reason he hasn’t personally murdered anyone (that we know of)
It’s one of the few things we can safely say about Trump’s rap sheet.
Cause guaranteed, if he’d killed someone, he’d have let it slip by now. Likely without even realizing he was doing it.
At most, he maybe took out a hit on someone at some point, but anything closer than that and his failing filters would have betrayed him to reveal it already.
If he did order a hit on anybody I’m sure either he or the incompetent(because he has a track record of hiring the best people, right) hitman that he would hire messed it up.
That, and the fact that it would require some sort of physical effort. Of course, he is capable of swinging a golf club… But, you’re right. If he’d killed somebody with his nine-iron and it took him five strokes, he’d be telling us all it only took him three. That’s PAR!
Trump does have enough self-awareness (just barely) and slef-control that he clearly understands that he needs to shut up once lawyers are involved.
I’m kind of surprised he hasn’t pulled the FCC card and demanded that the networks carry a live speech from him.
Ive never seen those tweets about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart before. That was hilarious.
Get the man a soapbox!
“We have permanently banned Trump from our soapboxes by infesting them with termites.”
The president’s one and only job is to communicate with people. Talk to Americans to make them feel safe and warm in their American cocoon, talk to foreign leaders and make them feel just enough safe/threatened so that they don’t want to wipe us off the face of the earth, talk to the fellow leaders of America and convince them not to check his balances and so on.
Use of social media, in the hands of the right president, would have been revolutionary. A way to start feeling connected to the president, in the same way we now feel connected to celebrities and content creators (And every bit as real, but illusion is important when you’re the president).
This, clearly wasn’t the right president to road test that, and now he can’t even communicate through the same channels that regularly allow crazy uncles and know-it-all teens communicate. He has a built-in credibility, because he’s the president, but he can’t be allowed to use it, because his credibility has been abused to cause horrible things countless times. He’s not just BAD at communicating, like certain other former presidents I could name, he ANTI-communicates. He communicates in a way that makes legitimate forms of speech break down and become useless. His words have actually worsened plagues and caused the first attack on the Capitol since the war of 1812.
Our country is built to handle failure and tyranny, but the founding fathers couldn’t have begun to imagine this…
This is weird.
he ANTI-communicates. He communicates in a way that makes legitimate forms of speech break down and become useless.
This is a way of phrasing it that I have been looking for for almost 5 years now, thank you. It’s a perverse form of divine language—while Trump’s speech doesn’t actually alter the physical world it directs actions that do alter the physical world, and his words and their effects on his followers are incredibly resistant, if not outright immune, to counter-argument in a way that I don’t think we are used to.I’ve said it before, but you’ve hit on the concise version of this: Milton’s anti-censorship argument in Aeropagitica essentially boils down to the claim that truth does not need interventive protection from falsehood because truth is resilient in a way that falsehood cannot be. That is, falsehood can be exposed as such, but truth cannot be made untrue. What Trump has hit upon is a way of inuring falsehood against that exposure, apparently by simply not caring that it is exposed, and that attitude has extended to his supporters to an unprecedented degree. His utter insane bullshit carries the impact of truth by sheer act of collective will.
he ANTI-communicates. He communicates in a way that makes legitimate forms of speech break down and become useless.
This is a way of phrasing it that I have been looking for for almost 5 years now, thank you. It’s a perverse form of divine language—while Trump’s speech doesn’t actually alter the physical world it directs actions that do alter the physical world, and his words and their effects on his followers are incredibly resistant, if not outright immune, to counter-argument in a way that I don’t think we are used to.I’ve said it before, but you’ve hit on the concise version of this: Milton’s anti-censorship argument in Aeropagitica essentially boils down to the claim that truth does not need interventive protection from falsehood because truth is resilient in a way that falsehood cannot be. That is, falsehood can be exposed as such, but truth cannot be made untrue. What Trump has hit upon is a way of inuring falsehood against that exposure, apparently by simply not caring that it is exposed, and that attitude has extended to his supporters to an unprecedented degree. His utter insane bullshit carries the impact of truth by sheer act of collective will.
Trump does in many ways feel like our first true Millennial president…
I hate AVClub’s misleading clickbait titles.I read the whole article waiting for the mention of a grown man.
This got me good. Thank you.
two lessons here for politicians-don’t lie and spread lies-do not build your entire PR strategy on social media.
On the bright side, this will give him so much more free time to masturbate.
Supposedly one of his first acts as President was insisting on a lock on his bedroom door, over the objection of the Secret Service.
Twitter is how Trump wanks.
Gets banned, immediately tries to ban evade with alt accounts.
A true shitposter.
Rush Limbaugh suspended his own Twitter account in protest. Win-win.
He is legit working harder to solve this than he worked against corona
Sadly, I won’t get my deepest wish of Trump’s bloated corpse hanging from the edge of the Truman Balcony with a mob beating it to a pulp with clubs, a la Mussolini, but this isn’t bad.
Now that Schwarzenegger’s weighed in, it’d be good if he grabbed Don jr by the Birkenstocks and beat the old cunt to death with his weird chin … C’mon, this is an entertainment site. Now, Clubbers, write your own fanfiction Trump Dies Porn …
These people are more mad that a man got banned on Twitter, not that rebels tried to overthrow an election, a historic building got desecrated, and that a police officer was murdered. Priorities?
BLUE LIVES MATTER!Except that one, apparently.
I can’t figure out which is more terrifying, Trump being on Twitter, or Trump not being on twitter and telegraphing his every insane move. Now we don’t know what he’s up to. The silence is slightly unnerving.
it’s ok – there are those sitting & watching “his” accounts & as soon as a tweet sneaks through for a few seconds, they make a screen grab & post it for him.
I’m sure he’ll just move to Parler and make that place his favorite cesspool, continuing the bifurcation of America apace.
He’ll have to wait until Parler gets new servers, since Amazon kicked them off of theirs. The app’s been dumped by Apple and Google as well.
So the president spent his evening being exactly as productive as the troll with all the fake Dr. Emilio Lizardo accounts who posts here constantly. Jebus cripes, what a diaper load he is.
I would argue that fake Lizardo is much more productive than him.
Hey Donnie might I make a suggestion:
When flying to and fro to Fairbanks Alaska this weekend, I observed other adults who can’t put their phones in Airplane mode and put them away. Taking calls as the plane is taxiing to the runway and texting before we touchdown, this doesn’t surprise me anymore, sadly.
We pay for him to have his own briefing room and communications team.
He chooses to use private companies and constantly violates their terms of service. That’s on him.
Ooh, this might be dangerous.
You thought he was bad before, wait until you get “Twitter-Withdrawal-Trump”
Smoke signals? He’ll always have ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’.
Folks the Republicans already are turning this against us.https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/10/gop-trump-twitter-ban-big-tech-456866
They have the funding and always will have the long-term edge. It will take decades of sustained Democratic voting to turn things around.And this means no more fucking whining about how the Democrats aren’t far enough to the Left. While true it’s also true that that’s as good as we’re going to get and we need to fucking bite the fucking bullet for decades to come.
Hi conservatives,If Twitter is a “huge loss” for your candidate, that says more about your candidate than it should.