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Pro-DeSantis Super PAC suspended from X hours before Republican debate
The New York Post ^ | 08/23/2023 | Ryan King

Posted on 08/23/2023 11:55:41 AM PDT by thegagline

Never Back Down was briefly shut down.

The leading pro-Ron DeSantis Super PAC’s account on X, formerly Twitter, was temporarily suspended Wednesday morning, hours before the first GOP debate, a rep for the organization confirmed.

X surmised that its “automated systems incorrectly picked it up as ‘spam,'” strategic communications director Matt Wolking wrote on the platform.

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Wolking, who was part of Trump’s failed 2020 re-election campaign, speculated that the GOP frontrunner’s acolytes may have had something to do with the suspension. *** [Wolking said] “Given their celebration, we have asked @X @elonmusk to disclose whether these Trump-backed accounts and their affiliated bot network have recently engaged in mass reporting against the @NvrBackDown24 account in order to manipulate X’s rules,”

Wolking included screenshots of pro-Trump users cheering the account’s suspension.

“While our follower count has not yet been fully restored, we appear to be back. Follow Never Back Down to get the facts the Trump campaign doesn’t want you to see! We are hoping to receive more details about the cause of this suspension on debate day, @elonmusk. Please,” Never Back Down shortly before noon Wednesday.

While our follower count has not yet been fully restored, we appear to be back.

Follow Never Back Down to get the facts the Trump campaign doesn't want you to see!

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancelled; fascism; hypocrisy
I don’t know if Trump’s acolytes were behind the suspension or it was something much less sinister like a glitch.

Matt Wolkimg, who worked for the Trump campaign in 2020, is all in on DeSantis this around so his claims are definitely suspect.

That said, the Trump supporters who cheered the temporary suspension of the DeSantis site are no better than the far left fascists.

1 posted on 08/23/2023 11:55:41 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Interesting, a warning shot to DeSantis that he will face same treatment as Trump?


2 posted on 08/23/2023 11:58:20 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: thegagline

>> That said, the Trump supporters who cheered the temporary suspension of the DeSantis site are no better than the far left fascists.

🤣

Are we literally Hitler? Huh boss?

😂


3 posted on 08/23/2023 11:59:23 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: thegagline

lol

I wouldn’t be surprised if the social media people of team desantis used their third party accounts and got neverbackdown shut down just for p.r.

After all, it seems the cammpaign seems to lie about so many things...


4 posted on 08/23/2023 12:07:00 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: thegagline

It’s just a DeSantis reboot.(Ad Nauseam)

Nothing to worry about, gagline.


5 posted on 08/23/2023 12:09:55 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge scoundrel)
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To: unclebankster
It’s just a DeSantis reboot.(Ad Nauseam)

That was my first thought as well.

7 posted on 08/23/2023 12:17:58 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: thegagline

Word going around on Twitter was the account was working to get suspended by violating X rules. Supposedly they were suspended for 1 hour.


8 posted on 08/23/2023 12:25:07 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: thegagline
I don't usually agree with you on much but I do agree here.
Everyone needs to hear every side.
9 posted on 08/23/2023 12:56:18 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: thegagline

Clear election interference by Musk and Yaccarino.


10 posted on 08/23/2023 1:06:53 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: thegagline
That said, the Trump supporters who cheered the temporary suspension of the DeSantis site are no better than the far left fascists.

Absolutely. Their actions show the same intolernace of any other view that liberals hav ealways shown.

And yes, today's liberals are fascists. Period.

11 posted on 08/23/2023 1:10:21 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: thegagline
I would never dream of canceling you RdS supporters, Boss!

No matter how far you stray from the truth of the Creator. 'Cause your tears are delish!

PHOTO-Ron-De-Santis-Crying-Tears-For-The-Liberals-Meme-300x287
12 posted on 08/23/2023 1:22:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: thegagline
No, but the authoritarian tendencies of trying to zot/cancel anyone who doesn't kneel at the altar of the false god and express 100% fealty is certainly a “good” start on that road.

That's just your overactive imagination trying to come up with an excuse for his poor showing, and you having nothing with which to combat that reality. Has someone tried to cancel you? If so, then shame on them.

But I notice that you are quick to post anything negative about Trump, even when the piece all but says it's only a rumor & that there is no substantiation whatsoever confirming the story being told. In this case it's a speculative accusation that Trump supporters were behind this.

That's what they call desperation. Tsk tsk.

13 posted on 08/23/2023 1:31:07 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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‘X surmised that its “automated systems incorrectly picked it up as ‘spam,’”’

Well, probably not exactly “incorrectly”.


14 posted on 08/23/2023 1:34:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: thegagline
I don't know whether Trump supporters actually cheered this or not, but a case can be made for cheering it to wake up the dopes who think that only Trump is the target. This is not a generalization about DeSantis supporters, but there are elements within DeSantis supporters and Republicans, especially the lying GOPe, who either imply or outright say that if Trump were out of the way everything would be just fine.

You would think you wouldn't have to explain this given how the media treated the two designated losers in 2008 and 2012, and how they would have treated the 2016 designated loser had Trump not kicked Jeb! to the curb, but apparently we do. Again, not a generalization about DeSantis supporters who mostly get it after watching how the media has savaged him just as governor.

15 posted on 08/23/2023 2:41:31 PM PDT by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: Robert DeLong


"Has someone tried to cancel you? If so, then shame on them."


I haven't tried to cancel him, but I HAVE called him out for being a whiney troll a few times (with VK ping(s) ).
16 posted on 08/23/2023 3:23:45 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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"wake up the dopes who think that only Trump is the target"


Very important point that has been mentioned MANY times, but some people still don't get it. If Trump is eliminated, they will start on the next contender.
17 posted on 08/23/2023 3:26:26 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Dahoser
This is not a generalization about DeSantis supporters, but there are elements within DeSantis supporters and Republicans, especially the lying GOPe, who either imply or outright say that if Trump were out of the way everything would be just fine.

Spot on! I resigned myself to that fact that the left and the MSM considers everyone from the center to the right as Hitler. By doing so, makes it easy to dehumanize their adversaries to the point where killing them would not only be justifiable but praiseworthy.

18 posted on 08/23/2023 6:48:11 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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