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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#341001: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:15:43 AM

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Trump repeatedly said things on Twitter that would regular users get banned - the only reason he's still on there is because high-profile politicians are awarded protected status.

In January he loses that status, but he'll still be Donald Trump. So Twitter just booting him is just a matter of time.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 24th 2020 at 5:16:06 PM

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#341002: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:16:01 AM

I wonder if people like Obama and Biden blocked Trump on Twitter

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#341003: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:17:52 AM

I personally do not think Twitter will apply the ban retroactively.

I also do not think Trump has the self control to not say dumb shit.

Basically, what I am saying is....has anyone taken over all Trump related parler account names yet? They may be profitable to have soon.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
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#341004: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:21:31 AM

So, Trump will lose the presidential account the 20th, and will likely get himself banned from twitter... what, two hours later?

Wake me up at your own risk.
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#341005: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:21:42 AM

Fortunately, I don't take political opinions from celebrities. Or as a wise man once said, "Stick to flying, Lindy."
...Eh, I'd be careful about saying something like that. It's a little too close to "Shut up and dribble" for my liking.

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#341006: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:23:21 AM

[up][up][up] I mean, would Trump being on Parler even have the same publicity effect, considering it's pretty much just another far-right safe space?

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 24th 2020 at 5:23:33 PM

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#341007: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:24:17 AM

He will still be former president though, so I can see social media being hesitant to ban him even after the inauguration.

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#341008: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:25:57 AM

Twitter has not been shy marking most of his posts as false. I think they're kind of looking forward to banning him.

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#341009: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:32:45 AM

I mean, would Trump being on Parler even have the same publicity effect, considering it's pretty much just another far-right safe space?

Of course not. But Trump is not after publicity. He just likes a soapbox to stand on to play the victim at to grift his stuff at. Kicking the Snake Oil Salesman from the market doesn't mean he won't move to the dark alleys and go "PSST! HEY KID! WANT SOME......CONSPIRACY THEORIES?"

Trump himself is only after money. The same way as Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen and the other grifters, they do not need to embezzle all of the country. Just enough of it.

Parler is enough for what he wants.

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#341010: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:34:12 AM

[up] Except Trump craves attention - as some pundits have pointed out, his behaviour over Covid made it almost seem like he was jealous of the coronavirus for stealing his spotlight.

Being on Parler will just make him another far-right loudmouth in a place that's already swarming with them.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 24th 2020 at 5:35:00 PM

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#341011: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:43:05 AM

I'll add something to that.

Trump craves positive attention. The reason why as a President, he tries to sell OANN over Fox News is because they aren't pliant an obedient as they used to be. He is already happy to escape to safe places and emerge every now and then from his cave - just to complain.

I think he'd be perfectly "ok" relegated to OANN, Parler and the Joe Rogan Experience with the occasional invitation to Fox News. It plays to the same cards he's lived by: He gets to pretend he's the victim, while getting a legion of adoring fans who will suck up to him and make him feel good before he spends another manic depressive episode after the NYT makes the Nth publication about his various crimes.

And he will still get away with it.

No one's accused Trump of being particularly happy or mentally stable. He's the Boomer equivalent of a 4chan shitposter.

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#341012: Nov 24th 2020 at 8:52:07 AM

I didn't necessarily think Swift was a republican, just someone who didn't want to take any sides. It was a pleasant surprise to see her turn the other way around.

She didn't want to get involved, but the /pol/itoads involved her, and she had to either make her own position clear or remain a symbol of their politics. So she rejected them.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#341013: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:22:52 AM

Roger Stone-Tied Group Threatens GOP: If Trump Goes Down, So Does Your Senate Majority – The group becomes the latest in a growing list of Trump backers who are encouraging people to either not vote in the runoffs or write in the president’s name.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-tied-group-threatens-gop-if-trump-goes-down-so-does-your-senate-majority

    An Excerpt 
Conservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to infamous GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone are calling for Trump supporters to punish Republicans by sitting out Georgia’s crucial Senate runoffs or writing in Trump’s name instead. And though their efforts remain on the party’s fringes, the trajectory of the movement has Republicans fearful that it could cost the GOP control of the Senate.

The most aggressive call to boycott or cast protest ballots in the two runoff races has, so far, come from a dormant pro-Trump super PAC with ties to Stone that unveiled a new initiative to retaliate against the Republican Party’s supposed turncoats by handing Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.

The group, dubbed the Committee for American Sovereignty, unveiled a new website encouraging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump’s name in both of the upcoming Senate runoff elections, which could determine the party that controls the upper chamber during President-elect Joe Biden’s first two years in office. The PAC argued that doing so will show support for the president in addition to forcing Republicans to address the wild election-fraud conspiracy theories floated by Trump supporters and members of his own legal team.

“If we can do this, we have a real chance at getting these RINO senators to act on the illegitimate and corrupt election presided over by a Democrat party that is invested in the Communist takeover of Our Great Nation,” the group wrote on its new website, writeintrumpforgeorgiasenate.com. “We will not stop fighting for you, the American Patriot, against the evils of Socialism and inferior Religions.”

The effort is representative of a broader push among some of President Trump’s most devoted supporters to withhold support for the two Georgia Republican senators facing competitive runoff challenges, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, in the hope of leveraging the party’s fear of losing the U.S. Senate to get more establishment backing for their drive to change the result of the election. The goal, those operatives say, is to expose a supposed vast election-fraud conspiracy abetted by high-level Republicans in Georgia’s state government, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

The Committee for American Sovereignty and a sister nonprofit group were set up in 2016 as vehicles for prominent pro-Trump operatives—most notably Stone and former Blackwater chief Erik Prince—to attempt to suppress the Black vote by amplifying baseless claims that Bill Clinton had a biracial son. It’s been mostly quiet since then. The PAC’s recent filings with the Federal Election Commission disclose nothing but outstanding federal and state tax liabilities, and its new effort in Georgia doesn’t appear to have received much pickup yet.

A request for comment sent to the Committee for American Sovereignty email address on file with the FEC was not returned. Efforts to reach Pamela Jensen, a California political activist who leads the group, were not successful. Her husband, a lawyer named Paul Jensen who describes Stone as a “longtime client,” told The Daily Beast in an email his wife “has no comment, and nor do I.” Stone did not respond to inquiries about his present involvement with the group.

The Committee for American Sovereignty’s strategy faces some significant obstacles—chiefly, that there is no space for write-in candidates on Georgia’s runoff ballots, which simply ask voters to select one of two candidates. But the underlying effort by the super PAC and other pro-Trump activists to kneecap Georgia Republicans nonetheless gained major traction over the past week thanks largely to the public utterances of Sidney Powell, who claimed in a Saturday interview on Newsmax that her imagined voter-fraud conspiracy involving Dominion voting machines and Venezuelan bribes extended all the way to Kemp and Raffensperger. Powell even suggested that Loeffler would have lost this month to Rep. Doug Collins, her top Republican challenger, had it not been for the supposed voter fraud that tainted Georgia elections.

Two things:

  1. Given the nature of the runoff, are write-in candidates even allowed? I know that won't necessarily stop anyone, but I'm curious.
  2. While aware it's highly improbable, I can't help but wonder what would happen if Trump did win a Senate seat by write in like this.

Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 24th 2020 at 9:27:04 AM

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#341014: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:24:28 AM

They are allowed, though god knows why.

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#341015: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:26:28 AM

[up][up]Jeez, Roger Stone is really carrying the Idiot Ball here. This would definitely benefit the Dems he hates so much.

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#341016: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:34:20 AM

More desperation moves, I suppose.

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#341017: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:50:31 AM

The thing is that in a normal situation, the GOP would have a much easier time on campaigning here; 'checks and balances; don't let Biden (who most of you don't like anyway) have a trifecta' is a much better rallying cry than 'give Biden the power to do whatever he wants'.

But they can't really do that without acknowledging that Trump's about to leave the picture.

But even then, encouraging their voters to do silly things like boycotting or writing-in Trump is a totally unprovoked own-goal.

Edited by Gilphon on Nov 24th 2020 at 12:56:43 PM

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#341018: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:53:42 AM

Makes more sense if you see the Trump followers as a Death Cult.

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#341019: Nov 24th 2020 at 9:54:52 AM

It's said that for evil to win, the good has to do nothing, but this time, good can get a beer and enjoy the show.

Wake me up at your own risk.
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#341020: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:02:14 AM

As I've said in this thread before, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. In fact, we should cheer him on! Stupidity can only help!

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#341021: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:05:05 AM

If it's a case of IT HURT ITSELF IN ITS CONFUSION, sure.

If it's the genuine trappings of a Death Cult poorly masking severe emotional issues for followers who are trapped in the vortex of despair...

Not so cool.

Edited by Aszur on Nov 24th 2020 at 12:06:27 PM

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#341022: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:06:11 AM

[up][up][up]Don't get cozy. Winning these runoffs is still an uphill battle. Republican infighting just makes it go from really, really hard to really hard. I'm happy with any help Ossof and Warnock can get, but this is very much a race they have to throw themselves into to win.

Edited by Parable on Nov 24th 2020 at 10:06:32 AM

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#341023: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:06:47 AM

I was just going to post about that. I actually thought it was a Democratic stunt to trick stupid GOP voters into spoiling their runoff ballots, but if it's actually a GOP strategist telling them to do it... Amazing.

Edited by Fighteer on Nov 24th 2020 at 1:07:01 PM

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#341024: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:11:19 AM

Aren't twitter's rules on politicians solely because of Trump? Because people kept reporting him for violating the rules?

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#341025: Nov 24th 2020 at 10:12:19 AM

Given the nature of the runoff, are write-in candidates even allowed? I know that won't necessarily stop anyone, but I'm curious.

I have recently learned that Georgia Runoffs do not allow for Write-in Candidates. So what would most likely happen is any person who intends to write in Trump is gonna see that they can only vote for the Republican Candidates or the Democratic ones, then reluctantly vote for the Republican ones. Any that would still attempt to write in Trump would be considered illegitimate.

We need them to boycott the Election, not try to write in Trump.


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