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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.
Well, considering that Twitter has all but declared open war on Trump in particular and conservatism in general, I hardly think it's petty for Trump to tell them to go fuck themselves. What the fuck makes them think they're somehow *entitled* to a sit-down with a President who they routinely call a racist, sexist, homophobe, clone-of-Hitler?
If I stand in town square every day and call the mayor of my town a vile cocksucker who beats puppies, should I be mad when he doesn't invite me to his Christmas party?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm getting to really like this guy Trump. Every time he opens his mouth, the progtards start waving their hankies and screaming, "Faaaaacist!!".
My way of looking at it is that if fascists are the price we have to pay to get rid of this plague of the Enlightened(tm), then it's a price worth paying. The fascists might leave you with a fucked up country, but at least you'll still have a country. These ass-clowns will happily hand it out from under your feet.
Adolf Hitler only fucked up Europe for a generation. Angela Merkel has set the stage for centuries of ethnic strife. I'd bet money that Europe will still be cursing Merkel long after Hitler is a forgotten man.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
You've been brainwashed by leftist fake news.
Exactly. The truth has a decidedly leftist lean to it.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
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.
Probably the primary ideological idea of fascism is a rejection of capitalism and unearned income, and demands for a "fair" redistribution of wealth; fascist leaders usually are people who become powerful and wealthy through politics, not through running businesses or inheritance. Between Trump and Clinton, Clinton is closer to fascism ideologically than Trump.
At this point, I see no indications that Trump is a threat to democracy. He is simply a thin-skinned, inexperienced businessman-turned-politician. He'll do his job for four years (or maybe eight) and then hand power over to the next president, whoever that may be. So, stop the hyperventilating and fear mongering and enjoy the show.
There is nothing Trump will be capable of doing that would appease the terminally offended.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.