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After being banned from everything, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to build his own version of Twitter. Jason Miller was going around advertising the idea that this was going to be the real deal – big time.
Well, this week Fox News announced that Trump had “launched” a “new communications platform.”
So: what is it?
It’s a blog (presumably WordPress) on his existing personal website.
That video claims that the blog is a “beacon of freedom” that has “arisen.”
I must say however that I like “Save America” as a slogan.
No one is going to save America, but it’s a noble gaol. I mean goal.
I don’t know why or how, but the posts go back to late march.
(It’s a little bit interesting to think about whether he had been working on this since March, or whether he or someone else decided to go back and post old things he’d written in that time.)
He hits Liz Cheney. Unfortunately, he didn’t hit Tim Scott. Even after all that’s happened, I would have loved a “King Tim” post.
If you’re looking at this blog and thinking “well, he could have just done that the day after he got banned and a lot more people would have cared about it,” then you’ve got a good head on your shoulders, bub.
Donald Trump lost much, much steam by being invisible for so long, and if his plan was just to make blog posts on his website, he should have done that immediately. Even if that wasn’t his long-term plan, he should have done it immediately, as I said at the time.
I’m just thinking now that Baby Boomers probably don’t know what a blog is. Most of them did not get on the internet until Facebook and the rest took over the internet. Blogs are a very 2000s thing. You’ll remember that in the 2000s, newspapers were still being printed. Boomers were buying those paper news sheets and reading them. They didn’t get on the internet until it was made safe, sterilized by mega-corporations. Most of the big bloggers ended up getting bought out, working for the man, or just posting on social media.
The Fox News article announcing the blog literally prints the “www.”
I can’t tell if that’s ironic or not.
It is indeed possible that the idea of someone posting their personal thoughts on their personal website is a novel idea to these boomers. Maybe they look at that blog and say “Donald Trump invented a new form of communication! He’s built a new Facebook on his own! STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING!”
Presumably, people will screenshot these posts and spread them on social media, and it will be hard for those companies to ban screenshots of text. So it’s probably going to be relatively effective. It’s just a cryin’ shame he didn’t do this earlier, and keep the drama about the election fraud going. Instead, he spent – January, February, March, April – four solid months – releasing long, semi-formal statements no one read about how great vaccines are.
It’s kind of too late to start trying to drum up election fraud stuff now.
Whatever. I don’t like what he did in response to the election. It seems like there had to have been a competent person somewhere to tell him that Sydney Powell was not on the ball, and he needed to focus on the stopping of the count at 3 AM, boarding up the window, etc. In my opinion, not being on the ball in addressing the fraud was a bigger sin than denouncing his own supporters in a gutless attempt to avoid jail after he’d already failed to address the fraud.
The best thing he could do now would be to flip-flop on the 1/6 freedom fighters and talk about how they’re being tortured in a special political prison for trespassing. Basically, he could do what he should have done as president, and just follow all of the cues from Tucker Carlson.
Actually, wait – I have an even better idea. He could embrace QAnon, and claim that he is the Shadow President and is secretly controlling Joe Biden.
But he won’t. Instead, he’s going to go out there and continue to play this stupid game, making people think he’s going to run in 2024 and save America.
I’ll just say this: I hope he is smart enough not to use –
Ugh.
Both Cloudflare and GoDaddy have banned me, and there is zero reason to believe they wouldn’t ban Trump.
That doesn’t mean they will, it just means if someone tells them to, they’ve already established a precedent.
It seems like even a boomer would ask: “can they ban my website?” and that any competent employee would answer “yes, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are both backbone services that have banned people deemed disreputable by the media.”
I get that he doesn’t want to register with China or Russia – but why not? Why not say “these countries have more free speech than we do”?
Personally, I am tired of winning.
