He's super devious and is definitely using this as an opportunity to take back control of the party. I think secretly a lot of Republicans felt like Trump hijacked their party but went along with it while it was popular. After the Capitol attack only the most deranged MAGA nuts still support Trump. If it gets Trump out of office whatever. Trump is dangerous and needs to be removed as soon as possible. It's looking like there could be a violent showdown between the MAGA cultists and the National Guard. I'd stay away from DC or any state capitals for awhile. The NG will win of course, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that if it goes down.
Trump is now part of an elite club that consists of just him of presidents who have been impeached twice
He's also the only president in almost 200 years with no pets. Something is wrong with a person when even dogs and cats think they suck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets
He really is the worst ever. Lost popular vote twice. Impeached twice. Lost House and Senate in one term. Elected to only one term. Terrible judiciary track record. Incited insurrection against the government he leads. Banned from all relevant media platforms. Never built a wall. Never banned tiktok. He’s not a president, he is a Twitter account.
He also sickened and killed massive numbers of people by lying about a pandemic and holding huge maskless rallies where he even got sick himself Our first internet troll president ended about as well as you would expect.
Rudy isn't even going to get paid. lol https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-white-house/index.html You become a lawyer for a guy with terrible credit who doesn't pay his bills what do you think is going to happen?
Remember when Rudy was “America’s Mayor”? When he was standing stoic on SNL helping us feel good after 9/11? Now he’s the fool with hair dye dripping down his face calling press conferences outside a porn shop. Or his star witness is drunk Xanax’d out Karen reciting online conspiracy theories before congress. And now he’s not even getting paid. He got chumped.
Decades of federal pound me in the butt prison looks like a certainty for those who entered the Capitol: Big gun charges will hit once Trump is out of office I bet.
Not to get too political on a political discussion... I was listening to some right wing talk radio this morning report with glee that one “leftist agitator” was arrested and how the left “just can’t stop stepping on the rake”. I lol’d. It was pretty funny.
Which is why Fox News needs to be deplatformed immediately. They are going to incite another terrorist attack. Cable and satellite providers need to decide if they really want to be associated with domestic terrorism, deranged conspiracy theories, and violent extremism. The direction Fox has gone in lately is extremely dangerous and isn't something that deserves a mainstream platform. They're also risking having the FBI and federal prosecutors come after them for sedition. They would stop if they knew what was good for them. Trump ruined his life and reputation by not knowing when to shut up. Will Fox News be next? I'm all for the right having a voice. But what's going on right now would be the equivalent of the left giving the stage over to some violent communist terrorist group like Khmer Rouge or something.
Left wing activists/ terrorists have been rioting and harming people for quite some time. Even alternative progressive media like TYT has got people killed such as with Gavin Long, who used to do videos on YT discussing TYT's cop bashing videos (I've seen them and thought the guy was a nutcase; I'm sure they've been scrubbed now) before he went out and actually murdered police himself. Most of the media pushed fake stories like the "hands up don't shoot" nonsense and a myriad of other dishonest stories to get people riled up and inflame racial tensions. Most of the corporate media is diseased, manipulative, and deeply corrupt. I wish it was just Fox News, but it definitely is not.
@bfun Lack of moderation on social media is a big part of the problem. These platforms don't enforce their rules all that much. There's way too much extremist stuff within easy reach of weak-minded people, and it's turning some of them into brainwashed nutjobs. Add incitement of violence and deliberate spread of misinformation that rarely get moderated and you've got a dangerous mix. I'm a big believer in deplatforming. Send this stuff to the fringes of the internet where it belongs and where it can't radicalize lots of dumb people. It doesn't violate anyone's 1A rights. This is literally capitalism. Companies deciding not to do business with dangerous people. Some viewpoints don't deserve a mainstream platform. And once this stuff is harder to find it loses a lot of its power. Otherwise sane, normal people rarely follow it to the fringes. And when they aren't bombarded with it constantly, they tend to deradicalize on their own.
The "it's a private company and they can do whatever they want" position sounds strikingly similar to what I've heard from the Koch Bros for quite some time, a sentiment that seems to have suddenly become very popular with the authoritarian left within the past few years. Seems like there are massive monopolistic corporations making decisions about what constitutes acceptable ideas and who is able to communicate with others. Big tech companies have FAR too much power currently. If you disagree, try to picture how you'd react if they were overwhelmingly pro-Trump or some other individual you find to be immensely distasteful politically and aggressively pushed their views and censored dissent from them. When I was a kid, the ACLU actually used to defend the free speech of groups like Westboro and the Klan, yet miraculously these fringe weirdos did not take over the world. In fact, they barely exist at this point. Most of the attention these groups were getting was from the corporate media with sensationalized bullshit, not because they weren't censored heavily enough. Most people don't give a fuck about those clowns censored or not. Westboro has their own social media accounts and even their own website. When was the last time you thought about them? Extremist fundamentalist Christian groups, which usually included some combination of "American," "family," and "Christian" in the title and pretty much a guarantee they blamed every problem in history on gay people, tried to censor and ban everything in the 80s and 90s because it was "obscene" and "profane." How prominent and influential are these groups now? Pretty much the reverse of everything they pushed is now popular, particularly acceptance towards LGBT rights, these religious wingnuts' biggest nightmare.
Free speech is fine but there are limits. A platform erring on the side of caution when its user is inciting riot and insurrection is kind of par for the course. If they have a violation of the t&c then what do you expect? They have to sue every user YouTube demonetizes? People were calling for Trumps removal from Twitter for years for various violations. Mirror accounts reposting the exact content of his account were disciplined and suspended and/or banned. It is also no secret that they held him to a different standard because he was the president. This is akin to the editorial section of a newspaper. No one is obligated to publish and distribute anything anyone says. Paper, ink, and gasoline cost money just like bandwidth, storage space, and development. These platforms have as much power as you give them. I get it, you got to keep up with Jones’ and whoever from high school. But you can’t plan a revolution without getting banned. Or arrested. There is a difference between people plotting to assassinate elected officials and people just hating on the gays. Misinformation on the election is crying fire in a crowded movie theater. Will our rights get eroded? We all live through the pre and post 911 patriot act world. It sucks but this is what happens when people go running around crying wolf all the time. This is why we can’t have nice things, because some people don’t know how to behave like an adult.