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Tommy Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
Sun May 2, 2021, 08:39 AM May 2021

The Twitter ban of the Former Office Occupant seems to be working

Stumbled across one of his ludicrous proclamations issued from the Mar a Lago bridal suite wherein he gushed praise upon Kim Jong Un.

In the old times, the Twitterverse would have been beside itself obsessing over such a shameless display of affection towards a brutal tyrant.

I checked the date.

He issued the statement a week ago. Very few people cared to comment on it.

It up and vanished like a fart in the wind.

Slowly he’s being suffocated for attention and that’s a very good thing for this country and this world.

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The Twitter ban of the Former Office Occupant seems to be working (Original Post) Tommy Carcetti May 2021 OP
Good to know as I and likely many others never heard of his praise for a fellow dictator! machoneman May 2021 #1
Yeah, exactly-- and yet Repubs still seem determined to lash themselves to him LymphocyteLover May 2021 #3
That albatross around their neck is starting to stink, tanyev May 2021 #11
You nailed it. BComplex May 2021 #12
Haha, yes. They've convinced themselves that smll is the finest perfume... LymphocyteLover May 2021 #15
Trump suffers from Attention Deficit Syndrome... ProudMNDemocrat May 2021 #6
Mar A Dildo! lagomorph777 May 2021 #20
Thank god. And hopefully we will hear even less from him when he's finally in prison. LymphocyteLover May 2021 #2
The worst thing to do to a Narcissist, gab13by13 May 2021 #4
I think you meant "could not care less" (NT) HuskyOffset May 2021 #19
In my opinion they should not allow any elected official to use social media. It can easily.... usaf-vet May 2021 #5
I have to believe he'd be out doing rallies if he could. He probably can't afford to. If he did, brewens May 2021 #7
This is a big mystery to me Johnny2X2X May 2021 #22
The reason Twitter is such a powerful medium is because journalism ToxMarz May 2021 #8
Exactly. Well stated, trenchantly. n/t. NNadir May 2021 #9
The first 4 words of your last sentence got my hopes up. BobTheSubgenius May 2021 #10
It's a gift from the twitter gods! Cha May 2021 #13
Reduced to doing his stand up act at Mar-a-Lago. sarcasmo May 2021 #14
Sorry but, who said what and... JoeOtterbein May 2021 #16
Let his toxic filth back up inside him until he fucking croaks Blue Owl May 2021 #17
I know people who live near me, who have begun reemerging from their Trump-zombie state. C Moon May 2021 #18
Good, good, good. But the former guy suffocated himself by getting himself banned. Hortensis May 2021 #21

machoneman

(4,006 posts)
1. Good to know as I and likely many others never heard of his praise for a fellow dictator!
Sun May 2, 2021, 09:21 AM
May 2021

Yes, the bans have had an effect. The recent vid of him standing up in a Mara-Dildo room at his rat-infested FL clubhouse showed him whining about his election loss to maybe 25-30 people. Sad display and he's no idea how just how forlorn, lost and small he appears. Worth a look if one can find that vid. I laughed my ass off btw!

LymphocyteLover

(5,644 posts)
3. Yeah, exactly-- and yet Repubs still seem determined to lash themselves to him
Sun May 2, 2021, 09:30 AM
May 2021

they are so incredibly demented. I hope it costs them big time in 2022.

tanyev

(42,553 posts)
11. That albatross around their neck is starting to stink,
Sun May 2, 2021, 11:34 AM
May 2021

and they’ve been smelling it for so long they can’t even tell.

BComplex

(8,049 posts)
12. You nailed it.
Sun May 2, 2021, 02:59 PM
May 2021

I hope they keep on wearing it, too, because it's only going to bring them all down eventually.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,784 posts)
6. Trump suffers from Attention Deficit Syndrome...
Sun May 2, 2021, 10:07 AM
May 2021

For someone addicted to attention like he is, no one paying attention to him is driving him nuts.

Good for us and the country. Many of his so-called surrogates are not avidly fronting for him, save for a very few..

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
5. In my opinion they should not allow any elected official to use social media. It can easily....
Sun May 2, 2021, 09:47 AM
May 2021

..... become subversive and harmful to our Democracy. Remember "support and DEFEND against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.

Social media has proven itself to be a dangerous tool in the hands of people who intend to do harm. Like, as an organizing tool to plan and implement a treasonous insurrection.

Now that we are getting a handle on the Covid pandemic and people are finally returning to the movie theaters.... try this experiment stand at the back of the audience and YELL FIRE! See what happens.

Or try this, try threatening to do bodily harm to federal elected officials. Start a stopwatch to see how long before a law enforcement team is standing at your front door wanting to have a "conversation" with you.

Not all speech is "free and protected".

brewens

(13,582 posts)
7. I have to believe he'd be out doing rallies if he could. He probably can't afford to. If he did,
Sun May 2, 2021, 10:07 AM
May 2021

he'd have to make it profitable and sell tickets. I can't imagine anyone with big bucks would fund that. At the very least they have to wait and see if he's prosecuted for any number of things. I bet every dime he's grifting is spent the second he gets it.

It'll be fun to see what happens to Uday and Qusay. If the former guy goes down (farther), how the hell do they maintain enough income to support their lavish lifestyle? As soon as he's irrelevant, so are they. I wouldn't be surprised if they are getting cut off already.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
22. This is a big mystery to me
Mon May 3, 2021, 09:17 AM
May 2021

He's a cult leader, he can hold rallies and charge admission. He could actually turn a nice profit, his flock would gladly pay to hear him whine and cry for 2 hours. That will be up and running soon enough I predict.

ToxMarz

(2,166 posts)
8. The reason Twitter is such a powerful medium is because journalism
Sun May 2, 2021, 10:24 AM
May 2021

is lazy and cheap. So they just run Trump's Twitter feed all day for cheap easy content. If they didn't weaponize his tweets, no one would care.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
10. The first 4 words of your last sentence got my hopes up.
Sun May 2, 2021, 11:22 AM
May 2021

But you're right. It's a VERY good thing, even though I admit to missing the occasional helping of crazy once in a while.

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
18. I know people who live near me, who have begun reemerging from their Trump-zombie state.
Mon May 3, 2021, 01:33 AM
May 2021

They started wearing masks. They were actually vaccinated (that one shocked me). And they are talking about how terrible COVID was (previously, they pretended it didn't exist).
It's gone unspoken, but I think they feel kind of stupid for listening to his bull shit lies.
The Twitter shut off was definitely an important move to save our country.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. Good, good, good. But the former guy suffocated himself by getting himself banned.
Mon May 3, 2021, 09:04 AM
May 2021

He got away with almost everything and would still be tweeting if he'd only been a little smarter in using it to foment revolution.

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