What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Interesting documentary last night on Network 2 outlining the build up to January 6 and the way the right wing militias were encouraged by Trump in 2020 from Charlottesville to the incident in Michigan when fully armed militia men stormed the state capital looking to try the Governor after Trump said they had a problem with her. Another gang had the plan to kidnap, try and execute her . Its quite clear from the interviews with the likes of the Proud boys, Oath keepers, Boogaloo boys and the rest that they believe in armed rebellion, even discussing shooting cops as they are seen as defenders of a corrupt government.

You could see this was all building to January 6th when all these guys though all their birthdays had come together as they had the chance to launch a rebellion encouraged by the then president. I can see some governor being murdered by these guys or a bomb in some state building. One guy said they felt encouraged by having a president who supported them at least 75%.

Exactly, this attempt to absolve Trump of any responsibility for the insurrection because he didn't actually say they should do it is really worrying as people as basically saying that despite all the evidence they don't care. Very clearly, Trump was aggitating the far right. Back in 2016 he said that if HC won people had 2nd A and knew what to do. He openly called for people against him to be beaten up ("I will pay for the legal costs").

There is a clear and demonstrable path that Trump was working towards and it is so scary that the very people that say they love their country and love democracy are the very ones supporting a man that has done the most to destroy it. From his failure to denounce far right groups, his siding with conspiracy theorists, his labelling anyone that was against him as anti-American, calling the media traitors.

It was clear from early on that he would be willing to go to almost any length to secure a 2nd term. I think he only failed because he actually underestimated Biden. He really never thought Biden was popular enough to win. All the things he has done since the election, and lets remember he tried to screw around with the postal service before it, he really should have done before the election. He started, but never went as full on as he is now. I believe he thought he didn't have too.

Probably an unpatched old wordpress site

Why would they bother to invest? There is no need for this platform to actually achieve anything, Trump already has his rallies for that. This is simply to throw meat at the base, and when it falls over they can claim that Big tech/Communists/Socialists/Haters/HC etc etc will do anything to stop them.

Its a win-win for Trump. He keeps in the news, has to do very little to do it, his base lap it up.

Apparently it's a mostly uncredited clone of Mastodon, which has been brought to the attention of the Mastodon developers. https://mashable.com/article/trump-truth-social-hacked-trolls

In #2xIMPOTUS related news, the new 'Trump loser lawyer name' du jure is John Eastman, who was the 'legal advisor' to the coup attempt. Apparently, his Bar association is very unhappy with him giving bad advice and violating lawyer codes of conduct. Eastman's defense is pure Trumpworld: although there is a document stating exactly all these bad things I did, I didn't mean it. In fact, I met with the targeted person (Pence) and told him I didn't mean it. Not surprisingly, the Bar Association is skeptical - if it's in writing, you can claim all sorts of things about what you said (orally) and it's not worth the paper it's written on.

Let's see if Garland will prosecute now.

Trump's new SM site turns out to be, in an incredible surprise move, ripped off from somewhere else.

Trump's Social Media Platform Could Already Face Legal Issues, After Allegedly Ripping Off Code (gizmodo.com)

EDIT: It also seems to have disappeared from App Store. ETTD indeed.

I'm sure the cries of 'big tech monopoly' over the app being removed, and conveniently forget about the stolen code

trump has more issues than any House investigations. there are several criminal investigations in New York (both federal and state) plus elsewhere. the GOP winning the house won't affect them.

It's also interesting that they went down the route of an Open Source platform to do this. For one, the price is right for Trump but even if he flaunts the rules for open source licencing, Mastodon can't actually shut down Truth Media.

However, by going open source system and just rebranding it, I feel we're back in the same pot-hole of them throwing something together and not putting much thought into the technical support end of things. I suspect they're setting themselves up for load of technical issues, especially with the mobile apps which I believe for Mastodon you have to develop yourself.

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