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Poe's Presidential Campaign.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gatesDonald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to 'close up' the internet
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump just said the US should consider "closing up" the internet to curb radical extremism. Trump, a man that routinely claims everyone in charge of the US is stupid, believes that as president he could just call up Bill Gates to help him shut off the internet. Trump floated the idea at a campaign rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina tonight as a way to stop ISIS "jihadists" from recruiting Americans to commit acts of domestic terrorism. The idea is so dumb it almost has us, too, at a loss for words.
"We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people."
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The very best case scenario is that this Donald Trump ends up as Poe's Law on the most largest of scales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Although I don't think there's a winky smiling face to be had, here. Just fascism.