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As Bob Dylan sang, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." They banned Trump when he was on the way out, and an administration still ve
by dilap 4y ago
As Bob Dylan sang, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
They banned Trump when he was on the way out, and an administration still very hostile to him and his supporters was on the way in.
- ModernMech 4y agoThe wind was obviously blowing in a different direction on Dec 11 when all 50 states had certified their elections. Why wasn’t he banned then?
- dilap 4y agoEven if in your heart-of-hearts you wanted to ban Trump, I don't think you'd do it then -- seems like bad strategy w/ the various legal challenges to the election still in play.
- ModernMech 4y agoAll legal challenges to the election were over on Dec 11. The last of the last ditch, hail Mary efforts was the Texas case, which was rejected by SCOTUS on Dec 11. With that rejection and the certification from all 50 states, that was the key day that the winds changed definitively. Instead of banning him on that day, Twitter banned him on Jan 8, after he had used Twitter to organize a violent coup attempt on Jan 6. I think Occam's razor tells us we should accept that Twitter banned Trump for the obvious and proximal cause, rather than some hypothetical effort to curry political favor that predates the inauguration of the new administration, but postdates the new administration's certainty.
- dilap 4y agoAh, my bad on the timing. Thanks for the correction. Still, I think my logic still holds; if they banned him out of the blue right as the winds changed, it would be obviously political; by waiting for a casus belli (as it were), they can credibly claim non-political reasons.