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Who did TFG send his demands to? His rally crowds have no power to act, and consented, so there is no coercion.

by hgsgm 3y ago

ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
in which direction do you imagine the power dynamic OP mentioned went? the one originating from the dude who used a swear word? or the one originating from the company who felt comfortable ignoring the dude and the request?
ceejayoz 3y ago
> His rally crowds have no power to act Jan 6 would like a word. (There's every indication Trump was internally pressuring as President, too, not just via rallies as candidate. https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90 https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90) > Who did TFG send his demands to? TFG definitely sent in the same sort of requests. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru... > When the White House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down. > That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. > “It was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done [when Donald Trump was in office],” one former top aide to a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. “It was normal.”
- plagiarist 3y ago
  It's like when a rightist explains that Donald was a great president because he didn't "drone strike people like Obama did." The doublethink is ridiculous.
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    Or when hosting a private email server is worthy of being locked up but only if you are Hilary Clinton specifically.
    - plagiarist 3y ago
      What she did to national security is despicable. She should have relied on WhatsApp like normal people with security clearances use for secure communication.
stephencanon 3y ago
Wait, you think that when a random official says something, it carries the weight of the US Government, but when _the president_ says it, it does not? I'm not sure that you've thought this through fully.

Who did TFG send his demands to? His rally crowds have no power to act, and consented, so there is no coercion.

by hgsgm 3y ago

Who did TFG send his demands to? His rally crowds have no power to act, and consented, so there is no coercion.

in which direction do you imagine the power dynamic OP mentioned went? the one originating from the dude who used a swear word? or the one originating from the company who felt comfortable ignoring the dude and the request?

ceejayoz 3y ago

> His rally crowds have no power to act Jan 6 would like a word. (There's every indication Trump was internally pressuring as President, too, not just via rallies as candidate. https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90 https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90) > Who did TFG send his demands to? TFG definitely sent in the same sort of requests. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru... > When the White House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down. > That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. > “It was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done [when Donald Trump was in office],” one former top aide to a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. “It was normal.”

plagiarist 3y ago
It's like when a rightist explains that Donald was a great president because he didn't "drone strike people like Obama did." The doublethink is ridiculous.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Or when hosting a private email server is worthy of being locked up but only if you are Hilary Clinton specifically.
  - plagiarist 3y ago
    What she did to national security is despicable. She should have relied on WhatsApp like normal people with security clearances use for secure communication.

stephencanon 3y ago

Wait, you think that when a random official says something, it carries the weight of the US Government, but when _the president_ says it, it does not? I'm not sure that you've thought this through fully.