Posted on 05/27/2020 5:06:47 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Don’t look now, but Twitter is beginning its move to de-platform the President. – Twitter took the first step towards what will almost certainly become an eventual de-platforming of President Trump’s account Wednesday. Check out the little blue blurb at the bottom of the tweets below:
Hilariously, clicking on the “Get the facts” note takes you to completely false articles by corrupt outlets like CNN on the matter of mail-in voting. But that’s what Twitter does.
Look, you should expect the President’s account to be banned completely well before the Republican National Convention in August. Twitter already moved to restrict paid political advertising on its platform when it became obvious that the Trump Campaign was miles ahead of the Democrats in the social media space. That’s what all of this Kabuki theatre over the past week between Morning Mika and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been all about – they’ve just been setting the stage for the final act.
All of the social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and all the rest – are completely in the tank for the Democrats and in the pocket of the ChiCom government. They are going to do whatever they can to get China Joe Biden – or whomever the Democrats actually nominate – elected this year.
As I was writing this, President Trump responded to Twitter’s action by – you guessed it – issuing more tweets:
That’s great, but it’s a little late in the game. In August of 2018, as it was becoming apparent that the Democrats had a chance to take over control of the House of Representatives, I wrote a piece advising Mr. Trump to channel his inner Teddy Roosevelt, and use his second two years in office to employ the nation’s anti-trust laws against the social media monopolies.
Here, in part, is what I wrote at that time:
So, imagine this scenario if you will: Executives from ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron and Total all get together in a room talk about implementing the exact same gasoline price increase on the following day. Then they all go out the following day and implement that exact same gasoline price increase while publicly admitting what they’re doing.
Those folks are in a hell of a lot of trouble under our nation’s anti-trust laws, wouldn’t you say? Yes, if you have firing synapses in your cranial cavity, that’s exactly what you would say.
It wouldn’t matter if you like those oil companies or hate those oil companies, and it doesn’t matter if you like their customers or hate their customers. Those companies are all publicly traded corporations who together control a major share of the U.S. gasoline market, and are thus prevented from engaging in monopolistic behavior, such as fixing prices for their products. Thus, assuming the Department of Justice actually performed its job – which is always a crap shoot these days, I admit – those executives would soon find themselves on the receiving end of subpoenas soon likely to be followed by indictments.
Now, imagine another scenario: It’s January 2019 and President Donald Trump finds himself and his administration under unending assault from congress, where the Democrat Party has managed to win a thin majority in the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections. No, I don’t think this is likely to actually happen, but play along with me here.
The President is very frustrated because, as hard as it has been to get congress to do anything with its current thin GOP majorities in both houses, it is now impossible to get anything through the new #Resistance Democrat House. The Democrats are in the process of trying to impeach and remove him from office, but won’t be able to come up with the votes in either house of congress to do so, as their own house members who won traditionally GOP districts in 2018 are reluctant to adopt that fool’s errand as their own.
So, it’s gridlock in Washington, DC, and Donald Trump is not a guy who deals well with gridlock. He’s got two more years to get stuff done before his re-election bid rolls around, and is left with accomplishing things either through the regulatory process, executive orders or, if he can get his attorney general to act, the courts. What to do?
It may be that several giant social media corporations just answered that question on Monday. The leaders of Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Pinterest all got together and decided – at the persistent urging of CNN and various leading Democrats – to remove radio talk show host and conspiracy promoter Alex Jones from their platforms permanently. The same kind of monopolistic action denying an American citizen access to their platforms and the commerce he derives from them on the same day. Classic corporate trust behavior.
Now, it doesn’t matter if you like these giant corporations or hate these giant corporations; it doesn’t matter if you like Alex Jones or hate Alex Jones. These companies are publicly-traded corporations who cannot by law band together for the purpose of restraint of trade or denial of access to any class of people, and that’s exactly what they did to Mr. Jones on Monday. And it’s what these huge corporations, along with their sister social media platform, Twitter, have been doing to conservative users of their products for years now. This is why, whenever they get caught denying access to conservatives, they always blame the issue on some sort of “glitch.”
And it’s not just trust behavior that they are executing here. They’re also in blatant violation of campaign finance laws. In a very real way, their actions amount to massive in-kind political contributions to the Democrat Party. They apparently believe they are above the law, and if Jeff Sessions turns out to be the worthless swamp skunk many believe him to be, they could be right, at least for the time being.
But if the elections go the wrong way this November, President Trump will likely be looking for ways to keep on #Winning on domestic policy during his second two years in office. Playing a Teddy Rooseveltian Trust Buster to the foil of these increasingly radicalized and abusive Big Tech corporations might have a real appeal to him, and could end up being just the ticket to taking the congress back in 2020 and winning a second term in office.
Stranger things have happened. Hell, stranger things happen every day, don’t they?
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Yes, stranger things do happen every day, and they are only going to keep growing ever more strange in the social media space until the Justice Department begins to take real actions to restrain them from their blatant interference in our national elections. DOJ has been taking some baby steps in this direction over the past two years, but now it’s time to bring out some big guns.
Because, left to their own devices, these social media monopolies will do everything they can to swing this election China’s way. It’s as certain as that sun you see rising every morning in the east.
That is all.
Just in time for the coming election.
Dorsey should be in jail.
Could make a little known social media site get 10s of millions of folks to join them if Trump said in a tweet where was going to be posting from now on.
i guess it’s not that easy.
Nothing ever is but I wonder how it would work out
And his witch lawyer Vijaya Gadde.
I think he should do that preemptively, at a time of his own choosing.
you’re right.
I once thought it not possible that twitter would cancel Trump’s account (or whatever you call it).
No I think anything is possible
Well that’s it!
I’m done with Twitter!!!
Oh wait, I’ve never been on Twitter much less had an account.
OK, well then I’m done with Facebook!!!
Uh, well no I don’t have a Facebook account nor have I ever been on it.
Just my luck. Because I won’t give those rat bastard liberals any of my money, I now have nothing to make a big deal of dropping.
Anything to silence the Voice of Truth!
Both Twitter and Facebook are free.
Hmmmmmm.......that sounds familiar.......oh, yes, now I remember.
Dems hd a "shoo-in" candidate round about 2016......the whole election was fixed in her favor.
How'd that turn out....cackle?
Nothing that involves the left is truly free.
“Both Twitter and Facebook are free.”
They’d be out of business in five minutes if they were. They sell all your information to other sites, and they make billions off of it.
Twitter has to de-platform him. They certainly don’t want the TRUTH to be posted! His Twitter followers will be loyal. There are a multitude of articles on Dems cheating with voter fraud. In every state. There is ONE article of a Pubbie using ballot harvesting in NC, not legal there. And the guy he hired had mostly worked for Democrats before that election.
Trump has been carefully baiting the trap for months ... it’s about to be sprung ...
“Could make a little known social media site get 10s of millions of folks to join them if Trump said in a tweet where was going to be posting from now on.
i guess it’s not that easy.”
Brad Parscale is a genius when it comes to social media and the internet. I wouldn’t be surprised if the campaign already had a site waiting in the wings.
I was going to add that, but you did your own answering.
Basically, YOU are the product for them.
I am not familiar with him but I would love for that to happen.
Twitter doesn’t deserve Trump.
I’m wondering if they’ll do it to this tweet. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265624335898869760
It’s less than 10 minutes old right now and it mentions Scarborough cold case
time for an FEC complaint... and stripping of Twitter of their Safe Harbor protections.
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