To filibuster or not to filibuster? Biden needs to get a move on before Doofus Duck waddles back into the swamp (Biden-Trump Thread #128)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Still waiting for the kraken to appear.

@BruceAndNosh

Trump planning on launching a right wing rival to Twitter www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/20/donald-trump-truth-social-app-apple

Should have named it Twatter

Oh I'm sure that's what it will end up being called by 'certain segments of the population' (those of us with reason and sense).

His last attempt at doing a SM site went down in flames (can't remember what it was called). Hopefully this one will do the same. It's not a 'real' SM site from what I've read, it's a platform for his verbal diarrhoea to which others can post paeans of praise.

It already got hacked

www.newsweek.com/trump-truth-social-hacked-within-hours-announcement-1641137

That offers a feeling that it's not going terribly well, as far as I am concerned. Any bets that it actually happens in the end?

I'd say that Trump is all talk and no trousers if that were not such an utterly repulsive image.

You gotta laugh...

Harwell said it appeared the "donaldjtrump" account on Truth Social had been hacked. A screenshot Harwell shared showed the pinned post on the account was of a defecating animal.

However, it's not clear if that account belongs to the former president.

There is also the legal angle, apparently:

www.rawstory.com/trump-social-media-platform-2655331742/

How awkward to be looked into a little more thoroughly than usual.

RawStory is a rabbit hole. I have also found this there:
www.rawstory.com/trumps-media-venture-gives-him-access-to-300m-but-investors-were-aware-he-was-involved-report/

I think the ones who didn't know what they were getting into might want to get their money out of there pronto, if they can; Trump is not a good investment for anyone but Trump, and increasingly not for Trump either.

"La plus ça change" etc etc.

Bannon found in contempt in House vote. Case now goes to AG Merrick Garland for a determination as to whether or not to prosecute.

www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/steven-bannon-contempt-charge-vote-10-21-21/index.html

If Trump is serious about running in 2024, would owning and totally controlling such a social media platform be allowed?
I'm not sure why not but it feels kinda wrong

Nancy Pelosi
We have a duty to the Constitution & the country to find the truth of the #January6th attack.

Steve Bannon has information central to this investigation – but is defying a Congressional subpoena. That is why the House today held him in contempt of Congress on a bipartisan vote.

The Guardian's take on Doofus's new media platform. Really quite amusing!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/21/trump-truth-social-media-platform-tmtg-presentation

TMTG’s investor presentation pitches Truth Social as a “big tent” social media platform that will unite people of every political ideology. When you dig into the platform’s terms of service, however, things get a little more complicated. Users must agree not to “annoy” any of the employees and not to “disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the site”. So don’t be rude about Trump, basically. Users must also agree to refrain from “excessive use of capital letters”. OK TRUTHERS!

You know that any "moderation" on Truth (sic) Social will remove and block any content uncomplimentary about the site, Trump, MAGA and certain sections of GOP.
Even moderate Republicans will.quickly become unwelcome.
Within months it will have morphed into a bonkers sub-reddit, full of conspiracy theorists and extremists with no one to challenge their World View

Apart from anything else 'Truth Social' is a terrible name.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/se-cupp-donald-trump-media-group_n_61726707e4b0931432091570

I'm afraid there's a firewall, but the Biden administration has "released several reports about the risk of climate change to national security, laying out in stark terms the ways in which the warming world is beginning to significantly challenge stability worldwide, through developments such as worsening international conflict and increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability."

www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/climate/climate-change-national-security.html?campaign_id=51&emc=edit_mbe_20211022&instance_id=43477&nl=morning-briefing%3A-europe-edition&regi_id=173280731&segment_id=72329&te=1&user_id=f27dae38837cdcd03a7f09ad726ed098

This seems to me to be a lot less destructive than anything the fart ever did. I'll see if I can find a firewall-free version.

[quote lionheart]Apart from anything else 'Truth Social' is a terrible name.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/se-cupp-donald-trump-media-group_n_61726707e4b0931432091570[/quote]
Excuse me, its TRUTH Social yet they don't want excessive use of capital letters....
Apart from Trump of course, who you know uses CAPITAL letters even when talking or thinking!

Apart from Trump of course, who you know uses CAPITAL letters even when talking or thinking!

That's probably because he never learnt to write in cursive.

We could have a race to be the first banned on it. Of course the site itself could disappear before.

Finally.

Biden gives strongest signal he’s ready to move to end Senate filibuster.
After voting rights defeat, president expresses mounting frustration over rule that allows 41 senators to block legislation.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/22/joe-biden-senate-filibuster-republicans-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[quote TheNorthWestPawsage]Finally.

Biden gives strongest signal he’s ready to move to end Senate filibuster.
After voting rights defeat, president expresses mounting frustration over rule that allows 41 senators to block legislation.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/22/joe-biden-senate-filibuster-republicans-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/quote]
Agree. I know there's the worry that 'what works FOR us can later work AGAINST us', but something has GOT to be done.

(did I use too many capital letters?)

but something has GOT to be done.
As an outsider it certainly feels like that but given there are two "Democrats" who seem to want to put the republicans in power in perpetuity why is Biden being given such a hard time? Is there anything he can actually do?

(we've had the equivalent in the UK for half a century - from Benn through, Smith, Foot and Corbyn - positing unelectable policies, the end result of which is the right wing maintain power - so called principled men who refuse to understand the result of their choices. If sticking to your principles achieves the opposite of your stated goals - what are they worth?)

Again ...

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/timothy-snyder-donald-trump-2024_n_6173c0d6e4b010d933112eab

'Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, an expert on fascism and authoritarianism, on Friday sounded what could be one of the loudest alarms yet on the 2024 election.

Snyder, talking with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, noted how former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 result had relied on “personal charisma and signals to his followers and a few people in the Justice Department and hope.”

But if Trump does decide to officially enter the 2024 race, Snyder warned this time around he’ll also have “a whole bunch of institutional machinery” with the installation of partisan election officials who back his 2020 lies, which for them legitimizes throwing the vote, “plus a whole lot of time to plan.”'

...why is Biden being given such a hard time? Is there anything he can actually do?

He's being given a hard time because traditionally 'the buck stops here' with the POTUS when it comes to getting an agenda through. The problem is that 'technically' other than trying to convince the 'hold-backs' with compromise and a bit mutual back-scratching there isn't much else he can do, IF he is a man of principle, which Joe is. Doofus might have used blackmail, slander, and bribery to get his way, but Joe wouldn't stoop to such illegal tactics.

God's Teeth! I suppose they are convinced that Trump will make money for them rather than for himself only.

www.rawstory.com/shares-in-trump-linked-social-media-venture-surge-again/

At least there are a few with some sense of decency, though:

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-truth-social-media/

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Problem is that for every one of 'us', there's one or more of 'them'.

I'm glad that some of the big investors are pulling out. But I have a feeling that there are a lot of cult-members buying shares, in just the same way that televangelists get people who can't afford it to send them all their money.