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Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com)
According to Politico, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was "bounced" from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing during the campaign to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary. Trump's adviser Sean Spicer denied the report, saying "the conference table was only so big." Politico reports: Twitter was one of the few major U.S. tech companies not represented at Wednesday afternoon's Trump Tower meeting attended by, among others, Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, and Tesla's Elon Musk -- an omission all the more striking because of Trump's heavy dependence on the Twitter platform. Trump's campaign also made a $5 million deal with Twitter before the election, in which the campaign committed "to spending a certain amount on advertising and in exchange receive discounts, perks, and custom solutions," the campaign's director of digital advertising and fund raising, Gary Coby, wrote in a Medium post last month. So the campaign objected when the company refused to allow the anti-Clinton emoji. Coby wrote that Dorsey personally intervened to block the Trump operation from deploying the emoji, which would have shown, in various renderings, small bags of money being given away or stolen. That emoji would have been offered to users as a replacement for the hashtag #CrookedHillary, a preferred Trump insult for his Democratic opponent. Spicer also objected to the company's refusal, telling the Washington Examiner in October that "while Twitter claims to be a venue that promotes the free exchange of ideas, it's clear that it's leadership's left wing ideology literally trumps that." POLITICO's source said Spicer, who's also the Republican National Committee spokesman, was the one who made the call to refuse an invitation to Dorsey or other Twitter executives to Wednesday's meeting.
#EmojiLivesMatter
Jeff Bezos' presence is probably a much bigger news..
But it would have been a funny emoji...
I mean, with all these goddamn meetings happening in goddamn Trump Tower, am I the only one thinking that it's like a goddamn prolog to a bad cyberpunk-dystopia novel?
"I remember the rise of the megacorps... when all the govs and corps started funneling through the Trumps. If you were anyone, if you wanted anything, you went through those doors, up that golden elevator, and would plead your case to the Trump himself..."
I don't have anything of substance to this particular conversation, but Jesus Harold CHRIST, am I the only one who gets creeped the hell out by constanly reading about the future of our country marching through the goddamn Trump Tower?
Twitter is a chat program. And they keep censoring things. Stupid things. In crazy hypocritical ways.
They're not DESERVING of being included in jack shit when it comes to america.
He is biting the hand that feeds him. Unless Trump wants to make nice with the MSM, then he might want to consider the platform that gives him unaccounted for broadcast some respect.
Some of us were worried that Trump was going to be petty, and seek revenge against those who he felt wronged him in the past, especially during the campaign.
Whew, sure glad to see that's not the case!
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
No one cares about you slanted political hype pieces.
Especially if it was written at Politico. #FakeNews
"while Twitter claims to be a venue that promotes the free exchange of ideas, it's clear that it's leadership's left wing ideology literally trumps that."
So he would have been A-OK with Twitter approving an emoji of Trump taking it from Putin or grabbing women's pussies?
Trump is the new boogyman, he does everything that is bad to america. He and his russian allies are to blame for every past, present and future event that you can think of.
Trump is also the antichrist, and hes an alien too, a reptilian. Oh, and he can shapeshift, read minds and control people at will! So anything you think you did that you didnt like, it was probably trump that made you do it.
Not only that, but he has regular contact with satan, in fact he is satans little brother, they enjoy eating babies in his bathroom every night.
Remember kids, if you dont like something you see out in the world, just blame it on trump!
compared to this. This is why Trump one. He (or his handlers) are a master to misdirecting folks from real scandals to fake ones. He did it all campaign long. His media and information control skills are terrifying. It's like Karl Rove 2.0.
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Twitter isn't a tech company. It's a 140 character message board. Were Slashdot and Reddit invited?
Twitter's only selling point is hatred.
And the hatred that sells the most is racial hatred.
So Twitter is the electronic version of the KKK.
Simple.
Didn't you see the photos? The first thing after he was elected, was meetings with his foreign investors in Trump towers. The Indian ones did a tweet photo with Trump at the meeting, after that they were banned from discussing the meetings. Since then, there has been a prossession of investors and trustees of oligarchs into Trumps HQ.
Two weeks have passed already, remember when Trump said he's sell off his foreign businesses and put the US ones intoa blind trust? No? Because he didn't promise that, he simply promised something vague to tackle the problem.
He's stalling for time. Watch has he keeps doing PR stunts to avoid the problem.
Twitter won't exist in a few years anyways. Trump knows @jack is irrelevant.
That's a fascinating article, actually. Why don't we look at the evidence they present to support their claims?
So... they have anonymous people who are reporting rumors that they won't attach their names to. And there are other insiders saying the complete opposite. Lovely. Why don't they put out some actual, hard proof? Or prosecute someone? Maybe more of those banking restrictions they place on particular individuals? Oh, right.
So the FBI is willing to put their name on this saying it's not true, but the anonymous people with rumors are going to say our allies gossiped about this? And NBC simply labels this as a "Russian operation" despite failing to present any evidence of that. We already discussed just yesterday how Podesta fell for a simple phishing scam, but presumably here they're talking about the DNC leaks, which Wikileaks says came from a DNC insider. You can read all about the bad jouranlism behind this conclusion if you wish. They're simply laundering anonymous rumors with no factual basis and referencing each other's stories that have no factual basis. The emperor has no clothes.
You know it's bad when my own Slashdot comments scooped the NYT on that Podesta email story by weeks and given that I provided more actual, verifiable sources than their article. Seriously, if you can't even beat Slashdot comments by some random guy on the internet, maybe it's time to give it up, guys? You don't even bother to link to the actual sources lest someone do a real investigation, what a pathetic joke.
Back on topic, let's not forget that they brought up the 17 intelligence agencies again. Would it kill you guys to actually name them? It's also misleading, because it comes from the directors (political appointees), specifically it was the: "Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security "
I love how they don't bother to link to the actual statement lest someone actually read what it said. It's not based on anything of substance as anyone can read. They essentially say this is totally something Russia would like to do. Also, we've seen random probes from Russia. Which everyone who has a network has seen all the time (same for China, incidentally), making it utterly meaningless. Everyone with an SSH server has seen this kind of crap and Slashdot has reported many such stories in the past, like this one. A nice quote from the comments in that story sums it up: "If you truly expect no traffic from those places, dropping China, Brasil and Russia from ever reaching your ssh port is a great idea."
Let's also not forget that the DHS was
Lowest Comon Denominator, that's what "emojis" are for
I don't think anyone would want to hold a Tech meeting of that caliber with a company that has been steadily losing money for the past few years.
If trump didn't meet with SV you guys would be bashing him for being a spoiled winner.
Also my company is about twice the size of twitter in terms of employees and worth.
Yet we were not invited to the table either.
And unlike Twitter we're actually in Silicon Valley, not the peninsula.
Twitter is a "major tech company." Since when??
It's a website that can receive SMS. There's nothing tech about it. And they can't really even be a "major company," as they have no product. All they have are eyeballs into which ads can be jammed, and those are fickle beasts.
This signature is false.
Tillerson (Trump's secretary of state), the CEO of Exxon Mobil that does all the Russian deals has a 2013 Friendship award from Putin.
General Michael Flynn (Trumps new National Security Advisers), frequently 'private' visits Russia. He's the one that wants to form an alliance with Russia to tackle terrorism, has suggested FSB become a 5-eyes partner and has an anti-NATO stance. Paid to appear on RT, attended banquets with Putin.
Paul Manasfort (Trump campaign manager before he was forced to resign) is a lobbyist who works with Russian propaganda analysts to install puppet leaders in other countries. Most recently (before Trump) putting in Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine.
We can pretend Trump just passively benefitted from this Putin attack, but that's not the reality. Trumps campaign group has deep ties to Russian intelligence, and these are people Trump is putting in, they've all got deep ties to Russia.
And then there's Trump's offshore accounts, and the myriad of business fronts to launder money.
Did Putin set up those companies? No, that was Trump.
It isn't just that Putin personally was involved in putting Trump into power, Trump worked his part too.
suspend his twitter account. Just to enjoy the schadenfreude.
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Twitter has a market cap that is a fraction of what the smallest company present has.
They were not invited because they were not big enough.
As the only politician with his own emoji, he should be stoked. Although, to be fair, :poop: lacks a certain panache.
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Expect a lot more of this shit at the whim of your new King.
How the fuck did the USA of Jefferson, Washington and all the rest end up like this?
I love everything about this story of the "tech summit" at Trump Tower.
1). Trump actually wanted Twitter to give him a "Crooked Hillary" emoji. Think about that. He wanted a special emoji.
2) He called Clinton "Crooked Hillary" while paying $25 million to settle a court case for bilking money from his customers.
3) Because Twitter wouldn't make his "Crooked Hillary" emoji, he punished them by not inviting him to his "tech summit"
4) He tells the assembled billionaires at the "tech summit" that he "wants to help them do well". THEY'RE ALREADY FUCKING BILLIONAIRES.
5) In the photos of the "tech summit" Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Tim Cook and Elon Musk look like they're ready to jump out of a window because of whatever Trump is saying.
6) Just yesterday, Donald Trump had a summit with Kanye West, who is only days out of a psychiatric hold.
And because I love you all, here's an actual (really not fake) photo of Donald Trump with GG Allin, with a pull quote from Trump:
https://i.redditmedia.com/9D2K...
(note: If you don't know who GG Allin was, you really need to look it up, because it puts the photo in context.)
This is going to be fun.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You are a fucking idiot if you don't see the difference. He is literally setting up a fascist regime.
He is literally not.
Get some perspective. Christ almighty you lefties are so full of hatred and anger that you can't even see straight.
Trump recently gave his labor secretary pick his vision for that post, and the labor secretary basically agreed. This all looks very good and should have a positive effect on the nation.
His whole transition looks like this. You guys can't see all the goodness because you're too blinded by losing the election.
From that link:
Donald J. Trump’s 10 Point Plan to Put America First
1. Begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border, on day one. Mexico will pay for the wall.
2. End catch-and-release. Under a Trump administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country.
3. Move criminal aliens out day one, in joint operations with local, state, and federal law enforcement. We will terminate the Obama administration’s deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets.
4. End sanctuary cities.
5. Immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties. All immigration laws will be enforced – we will triple the number of ICE agents. Anyone who enters the U.S. illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country.
6. Suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur, until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put into place.
7. Ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported.
8. Ensure that a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system is fully implemented at all land, air, and sea ports.
9. Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet. Many immigrants come to the U.S. illegally in search of jobs, even though federal law prohibits the employment of illegal immigrants.
10. Reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, keeping immigration levels within historic norms.
Fucking lefty precious snowflake trigger warning echo chamber.
This fucking lefty isn't afraid to post non-AC. What the fuck are you afraid of?
I'll tell you what you're afraid of: you know damn well that you'll look like a fucking douchebag in 4 years, and you don't especially want to associate it with your actual (probably mostly pseudonymous) username.
Chickenshit.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Some of us were worried that Trump was going to be petty, and seek revenge against those who he felt wronged him in the past, especially during the campaign.
And some of us thought the liberals were going to be petty and seek revenge.
It's his preferred way to communicate with the public, so it would probably hurt.
First they were going to allow a custom emoji for "#CrookedHillary", then when it got too offensive/slanderous they decided "no, we won't do political emojis".
Wouldn't a better policy simply be to say "we don't do emojis that denigrate other people"?
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Simple solution for Twitter; ban the fat orange cunt.
Not sure how much credence to give to such a report, but if it turns out to be true it would totally be in line with NJ governor Chris Christie's aides shutting down lanes of the GW Bridge in retribution for the town they pass through having voted against him.
That playbook sure seems to be a popular one, so especially knowing Trump's legendary vindictiveness we should not be surprised in the least that such a thing might be true for Twitter being penalized.
Then again if I was one of Trump's aides and needed an empty 'spin excuse' to explain why? I'd state that "Given how much Twitter's social platform is used by the president-elect every day, it would represent a conflict of interest for someone from that company to get invited to such a meeting." or something equally vacuous.
If a dispute over emojis (of all things) is enough to tank Twitter, then Twitter is not relevant in the first place.
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Perhaps they can re-purpose it for the new #CookedCabinet.
Table-ized A.I.
Typo: supposed to be "crooked cabinet". Works either way, I suppose.
Table-ized A.I.
Twitter is worth $13 billion. Amazon $372 billion, Apple $624 billion. President-elect Trump can spend that time talking to a company that employs 3,500 people and shrinking (Twitter), 116,000 (Apple), or 230,000 and growing (Amazon).
If I were becoming president and I could spend a day talking with someone who hired 80,000 new people last year (plus 100,000 temps), I think I's focus on them for the day rather than Twitter, whose recent "major layoff" was 330 people or so. Amazon hired more people *last month* than Twitter has in it's entire history.
Last year Amazon created 180,000 new jobs for "schmucks that do the actual work, like you and I." I'm glad President-elect Trump wants to learn more about how they do that.
Do it! Grow a pair!
Have been a prologue to a dystopian cyberpunk novel.
Between the ubiquitous surveillance apparatus being trialled in NYC, London, etc. The roadside surveillance along highways and major roads in the US and UK (and elsewhere!). The legalized hacking of any devices and discussions of banning encryption. The cryptographically signed hardware that nation state actors no doubt have backdoor exploits into 90 percent of the servers and computing power in the world, etc.
Now we're looking at paper money being replaced fully with electronic transactions, making it even easier to profile you. Furthermore most non-trivial goods have moved to online/special order only methods of purchase, meaning you can't even have a pre-spyware laptop without being flagged by the purchases you need to make to keep it running.
We are so far into the dystopian prologue that the only way we'll dodge this bullet is due to WW3/Nuclear Winter, or thousands upon thousands of disenfranchised people abandoning their cushy but not quite private enough lives to go create somewhere that enshrines privacy alongside personal freedom in a society where people will refuse to allow any laws or activities to pass which serve to abrogate the protections enshrined around it.
Trump is having a tech meeting with Space-X Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg,..
When these meetings happen, who pays for the rooms and refreshments? Because that money goes to Trump Towers, and the profit to, um, who is it again?
They printed (and continue to print) every bit of anti-Trump fake news they could find, and they make stuff up when they can't find other stuff to print, and Trump still won the election.
According to Politico...
You can stop reading right there.
President-elect Trump can spend that time talking to a company that employs 3,500 people and shrinking (Twitter), 116,000 (Apple), or 230,000 and growing (Amazon).
Or he could spend his time talking to Kanye West and traveling across the country to crow about 800 air conditioning jobs.
> Amazon is making more money off those workers than they pay them.
OMG really? Is water wet too? Do you have a point?
That's quite true of course. Twitter was losing money from the things their workers were doing, so they had to lay off 9% of their workers; Amazon is making money, so they hired 50% more workers. Businesses hire when they're making more money, lay people off when there is less business.
> No business employes people just to get them paid.
Not quite true, I myself created a corporation and a business specifically for the purpose of keeping people employed. Come to think of, MOST businesses in the US exist solely to get workers paid, but you're thinking of a different type of business. Can you figure put which type of business this is?:
Most businesses in the US are this type.
Exists only so that the workers get paid.
Anyway, Amazon is the type of business you're thinking of, which isn't there just to employ people. Yet they DO employ a ton of people. Amazing. Same with Apple. Whatever mechanism turned the self-interest of Steve Jobs into thousands of jobs is pretty amazing. I'm glad Trump is finding out more about how to turn self-interest into enjoyment.
The final word of my post should be employment, not enjoyment. Something magical turned the self- interest of Jobs into 100,000 jobs. A neat trick, turning self-interest into EMPLOYMENT.
Mmm salty!
Cry for us.
Do the deaths of little people not matter as long as the great leap forward is achieved? Do you think the statist socialist places weren't doing socialism hard enough, or will you make a 'no true Scottsman' argument and claim they weren't doing it right? It's just that every single time... every. time... every. single. time... it ends in rivers of blood. The useful idealists are liquidated the moment they object.
I'm not going to make a "no true Scotsman" argument, because it's irrelevant whether what they were trying to achieve was "true" socialism.
Socialism, communism, capitalism—none of those have anything particular to do with mass state-sponsored murder. If you think socialism—things like Medicare, Social Security, and the Earned Income Tax Credit—can in any meaningful causative way lead to millions dead, then you're the one who's deluded.
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Right now, Mr. Trump is the person who lost the popular vote. By millions of votes.
He's not the president-elect unless the electoral college vote next week overrides the popular vote.
That will probably happen, based on arbitrary pro-bias applied to votes coming out of low-population regions (and outright abandonment of the EC's obligation to pick a qualified candidate); but until/unless it does happen, Mr. Trump's operating on an assumption, not an election, and so is anyone else who assumes this is a done deal.
Moving forward after the EC votes, assuming Mr. Trump wins that vote, anyone who thinks that he "won the election" might want to keep in mind that the majority of Americans selected Mrs. Clinton -- by a significant margin, as in, no doubt about it. The election he would have won is that of the electoral college, that august institution that disenfranchises the citizens of their votes. He has no mandate. We're also already seeing considerable congressional resistance to many of his stated goals.
So don't be too smug.
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Yeah, well Jack Dorsey doesn't need Trump anyways... He's currently listening to a band you probably never heard of while sipping a craft beer.
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Highly doubtful. Even the people who voted for Trump aren't broadly clueless enough to destroy their ability to live in relative comfort and safety.
What would probably happen would be a couple more occupations of wildlife refuges or similar by those too dim to remember to pack socks for a midwinter camping trip.
But if imagining a civil war is what lets you sleep smiling... by all means, carry on. We all have our dreams.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
You misspelled it.
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I simply described the facts as they stand at this point in time. I'm not denying anything at all.
Trump will probably be elected next week. That's how the EC votes look to be allocated right now. That is the actual election. Not the popular vote. The popular vote is, as we have just been reminded, not the determining factor in who gets to be president.
Pretending that's a good thing, no, that I'm not inclined to do. I am fairly confident that should we, as seems quite likely, endure a Trump presidency, it will eventually be described as "Like Bush II, but considerably more damaging to the nation."
It will be very interesting to watch. As for me being "butthurt", I am quite certain that the middle-income and poor people who voted for this man are going to suffer worse than I will as a result of those of his policies that he manages to put in place through whatever means -- congress, executive orders, direct control via the executive branch hierarchy. presidential authority for foreign policy decisions, etc.
I do feel bad for those people. It's one thing to observe that they have been hoodwinked. It would be quite another to glory in their suffering. I won't be doing that.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Also, is it really "worth" 13 Billion? Last I heard they have never posted a profit ever, were shopping around to get bought out by one of the bigger players like MS, and no one was interested (at least the the valuation they were offering)...
Story where Obama called up GM to fire their CEO because he wasn't doing what Obama wanted.
Are you afraid the president may fire top executives at large companies and replace them with his own pick as he seizes the company from the stock/bond holders and hands it out to his political supporters (unions). I missed the part where you were complaining when it WAS ALREADY DONE.
That's true, using other valuation methods Twitter may be worth $1 billion. Meanwhile, Trump's *personal* net worth is around $4 billion.
Politico lost their integrity for me this year and as such I won't recognize any story as legitimate, especially one so obviously trying to start something where there is nothing. The story here isn't Twitter's denial, but another example of how Politico has an agenda. News shouldn't have an agenda.
Trump's adviser Sean Spicer denied the report, saying "the conference table was only so big."
Yeah, it's a known fact that finding a larger table is simply impossible.
Face it, this was tit-for-tat retaliation. Just once I'd like Mein Fuhrer to be honest and say, "Yeah, this is payback!"
They wanted an emoji for their stupid "Lock her up" meme and Twitter said no, so they got all pissy, wah wah wah! But I'm surrrrrrrrrrrrrrre the Trumpanzees would have had no problem with an orange monkey-face emoji to stand in for Donald, right? Right?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Fucking lefty precious snowflake trigger warning echo chamber.
This fucking lefty isn't afraid to post non-AC.
Same here. I'm a "lefty" (probably way more so than most people here) and I'm not afraid to stand behind what I say. I'll own my words, unlike many right-wingers. No, I'm not some ding-dong SJW or special snowflake, but sure as hell I'm on the left.
It's mostly Trumpanzees and alt-right fucktards who hide in the shadows taking potshots at people.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
But Republicans truly respect the Great Kanye West. They really don't like Common, though.
You should run for office, as a Democrat, you would fit right in.
To me, the trivial nature of the objection sets a really bad example for the kids. It sounds like something an eight year old boy would do, then is scolded by his mother. It's just sad to witness this.
-Bob-
...that will barely be relevant enough to the rest of the world, much less last very long in peoples' minds, how could this possibly warrant its own glyph? Just make a shortcut on your keyboard or in your android dictionary ffs
I think it's probably not a good idea to fjnork around with someone who has a big say in which emoji get created. Ok, so #CR00KEDHillary didn't fly. But does the PE really want to piss off the guy who could create emoji like : #PEDO_Trump
#TrumpAlzheimers
#MicroPenisPresident
#CluelessInChief
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Get used to it. The globalists at the table have hollowed out the middle class. Now they need to pay. The price? Their H1Bs. Hire Americans.
Fake news!!!
The irony.
Looking at the pictures, no one looked delighted to be there.
Would you be? As a leader of a tech company, your business is to be smart, hire smart, and look smart. Trump has made himself look like the dumbest person in the country over the last year, and you have to deal with a fucktard that makes Forrest Gump look downright brilliant. You cannot ignore him, as he might try to help you with what he thinks Tech needs and make your life worse. (Example H1-b visas: tech companies want easy visas for as many tech workers as possible vs. Trump riding a wave of populist racism and trying to lock down immigration.)
He is literally to stupid to be left alone. These guys have to engage with him or risk the consequences, of course they are unhappy. The meeting had no point other than to let Trump try to look like he was 'doing' something to help the economy. None of the guys in the room needed government help to make more money or create jobs.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Publicly consider banning the president-elect, see what happens.
I'd be thrilled if Trump was able to shut down every company that attempted their own mass censorship (including shadowbans and editing user posts). Censor the censors.
Here's the thing about my certainty as compared to the folks you are talking about.
Obama never said anything about sharia law, taking everyone's guns, or declaring himself president for life. That was all right-wing agitprop. Obama was perfectly reasonable about those things. And many others. I think he was a very good president, as they go. One of our best. I don't agree with everything he supports by any means, but the odds of that are pretty much zero no matter who is in there. I don't think he did much additional harm, and he did a great deal of good. There's plenty left to fix, of course -- he did let a number of things continue that I would really rather he had put a stop to. Perhaps someone in the future will get to some of those. Or not.
Trump, however, has stuffed his cabinet with the ultra-rich who have specific public agendas that counter a great deal of the remaining good things about this country, not to mention stating intent to roll back a lot of social progress -- yes, progress -- and both he and they have stated multiple goals that range from simply unconstitutional to outrageous.
All it would take for him to really put a hurt on the middle- and low-income folks is to follow through on one or two things, such as actually flushing the immigrants out (watch the prices of fruit and vegetables skyrocket) or applying high tariffs to Chinese imports (watch the prices in big-box, electronics, and clothing store skyrocket) or simply pissing them off really bad about Taiwan (same result is very likely, only perhaps worse)... I mean seriously, the difference is that Obama said nothing crazy, that was all the right-wingers pushing a false narrative. Finding something crazy Trump claims he is going to do... that's the work of a few seconds. The problem there is picking one out of the many to focus upon.
On the other hand, Trump has recently been very forward in explaining how he straight-up lied to those he got to vote for him.
Just listen to him. Never mind that it's the Daily Show: ignore everything Trevor Noah has to say and listen to what Trump has to say. His voters were hoodwinked, plain and simple.
So when I say I'm certain... these are are consequences that will arise from actions Trump and his cabinet have indicated direct intent for. It's not "like Obama." It's "like Trump."
Bottom line: It looks like a person specifically stating intent to implement seriously problematic policies is going to become president. I anticipate problems if that is the case. Does that really seem unreasonable to you?
Anyway, if you still think this is "like Obama", I am pretty confident you're really not seeing the big picture: I encourage you to apply a very serious think to the axioms here. Perhaps you'll change positions. Some people can.
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Well, we will see if it actually does that or not in a few days. I think it's highly unlikely (not impossible, certainly) but would welcome being wrong about this.
If they simply go by the "winner takes all" metric, as pretty much everyone is assuming, they would be doing the opposite of "protects the minority" (from anything) or "tempering passion" ("passionate" is the kindest word I can think of to describe the reality-divorced voters who selected Trump), and instead, basically going "oh, you want to shoot yourself in the foot? Okay, we'll hold and aim the gun for you. Turns out, you've selected a 12-gauge! This will be awesome! Ready?"
Yes, I agree, it's better if the transition is peaceful. The country will survive better. The low- and middle-income people are going to bear the brunt if Trump does even a fraction of what he has stated he will do. But the country will come out of it electing someone who is the anti-Trump. Sometimes it takes a real facedown with evil before you really understand what good is. Middle America is about to get that lesson, I think.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
The irony.
Oh, did I hurt your feelings? Go take a hot bath and have a good cry and you'll feel better.
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He's acting like a king, not a president, so the appropriate phrase is "kiss the ring"
... Trump didn't include them because he's a business man and knows that Twitter, as a business, is so fucked that they are irrelevant.
Twitter will likely not even exist as a stand-alone company by the end of Trump's first term. They're likely to be bought by some company because that company wants to, be "part of the conversation." That company will try to make the Twitter division profitable, fail miserably, and drive it into the ground. Eventually, it's remaining assets will be sold to some Silicon Valley V.C. for a couple hundred thousand because he's a sentimental nostalgia buff who remembers Twitter's "good old days."