That’a my (subtextual) reading as well: “Quit hiding behind ‘we’re just the messenger.’ Grow a spine (or a pair), establish a policy regarding inflammatory/inciting content, enforce said policy, then suck it up and deal with the fallout.”
OTOH, it might be somewhat appropriate to keep telling Trump he might get his account back in two weeks, as long as they’ve decided NEVER to actually give it back.
Wouldn’t it have been funny if they had suspended his account during his administration with “We will reinstate in two weeks, after he has passed his healthcare bill.”
I could certainly get behind that insofar as CFSG is concerned. I may have been projecting my disgust with Facebook et.al. defending their complicity in the undermining of US democracy with their mealymouthed “we’re not responsible!” bushwa.
I didn’t mean that Trump provides support for other candidates (thanks for giving me the opportunity to clarify that).
I meant that Republicans nationwide find that ‘going Trumpy’—either by overtly associating themselves with him via photos etc, or by endorsing remarks made by Trump, or by being generally Trumpy—has increased their own donations.
This article focuses more on organizations raising money from Trump fans, than on individual politicians doing the same, but that’s part of the story, too:
Thank goodness we get at least six months more without him (via the panel’s decision). I’m not on Facebook or Instagram but nevertheless I was dreading his return. He’d be ginning up violence against his “enemies” left right and sideways.
As things stand he’ll have to hope his amateurish site catches on, and that people still on Facebook and Twitter link to it frequently. (And that those platforms permit such linking, if the content is likely to incite violence.)
Well, yes; it’s not as though Lindsey is going to tell the truth, though.
Somewhat off-topic, but: this apparently endless ability of Trumpites to find cash to send him and his acolytes rather puts the lie to the old “voting for Trump was about Economic Anxiety” theory, doesn’t it???
The grammar and punctuation in his Sad Twitter missives are perfect. Like I said in another thread, or ( maybe upthread in this one), they read like Mike Pence imitating Trump. But, most tellingly, they aren’t about him. That was the defining feature of most of the old tweets, the way he made everything about himself.
Maybe they should schedule the weddings at a nearby Wal*mart. They’ll get some Trumply bloviating thrown in for free. That’s almost as good as scheduling a major election protest speech at a landscaping company.
If someone schedules a wedding at Mar-A-Largo, they probably love the impromptu Trump act.
To a normal person, it would be embarrassing, like if your drunk uncle woke up, slipped the leash and staggered into your big event.
But to “people who choose the filthy carpets and chipped gold gilt of Mar-A-Largo as the backdrop for their special day”, it’s like the Second Coming of Christ happening at your wedding, if Christ was a mentally deranged sore loser.