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

Who did you ask?

It is beyond question that Trump tried to overturn a democratic election. He is now spreading propaganda and the Rs are trying to change election law.

It is purely down to Trump's stupidity and laziness that he didn't do any greater damage. He had racial unrest and a pandemic during his tenure. He could easily have enacted emergency legislation or state of emergency to seize power and he could have a crooked and rigged "Volksabstimmung" ala Hitler in 1934 that would have cemented his grip on power.

But if you cradle your balls during "Executive Time" for 60% of your working day you can't take over the world. Thank God for that. Sadly he left a mentally decrepit army of his followers to deal with, we can just watch as they slide into obscurity.

@Detritus70

Trump's act was not a one man show. He had different people advising him throughout his presidency. Some of them would have even known about political procedures like enacting emergency legislation. My thinking on Trump and enacting emergency legislation in order to consolidate power is that if he could have, he would have, because he has little to no scruples. The system of checks and balances seemed to have held throughout Trump's term, though.

The problem America faces now is not the prospect of Joe Biden's presidency ever being overturned. It's the 'Big Lie' being used to stack the deck on every level in the American political system.

@Detritus70

I would question the mental state of many of his followers, but the idea that they slide into obscurity I don't agree with. This is exactly what happened when Obama got elected. He won the presidency and everyone went, "Well, that's the right-wing finished. Looks like America's moved on into a wonderful new age of diversity, harmony and prosperity". What actually happened was that the right-wing went back into the shadows and ended up giving birth to something terrible and scary and much more vociferous than the old neo-con mentality which now seems anodyne in retrospect. It's the same now. Trumpism has not gone away, and his supporters have not gone away. At best, the centre and left have just turned their attention to other things, while Trumpists get to whittle away in the dark on their various plans to subvert future elections.

Last word was that Trump’s first Tweet Truth was the only one he’s bothered making and is said to be currently pissed that the platform is not doing better.

Downloads of the iOS app (the only way to access the service) are apparently much lower than there were at launch and doing little better than GETTR.

The site’s population includes a lot of right-wingers and accounts masquerading as major brands. (Possibly in an attempt to emulate a successful platform). The wait list to join is apparently very long, indicating that they may have failed to put in the server power nessisary to run a large online platform.

Truth Social appears to be a failure and will probably close eventually, but since it’s the front for a Trump investment scam, maybe it will linger about for a while.

Kushner testified for 6 hours yesterday, that's a long time if you're only pleading the 5th... Be hilarious if he threw someone under the bus.

It wasn't just fox that Navarro told his green bay sweep to. He described to to Ari Melber on MSNBC

Wonder no more

Climate is long term not day to day.

Your Wikipedia link has typically used to describe left wing complaints but not exclusively. Aside from that it fits. Trump and the likes of Orban, Putin etc. want to stop certain groups of society from being insulted (namely themselves and anyone in their good favour).

In any case the effect is the same if you want to label it political correctness or another word. They want some people protected from insults and for some things to not be said. The main change is if you are trying to protect the disadvantaged or the privileged with it really.

Are committee members the only people in the room? No staff members?

That doesn't answer the question I asked

Since Truth Social was mentioned here the other day, the BBC are now also reporting it as a failure:

Nearly 1.5 million on the wait list. I'm thinking that maybe no-one is actually processing new sign-ups. One curious bit of text pops up in the article that gave me pause: "But quite why the app is having so many problems has baffled experts."

"Baffled experts?" Come on, even an IT hobbyist like myself can easily guess that Trump would cheap out on the back-end infrastructure. He probably threw the bare minimum cash at the same poor fool who made his Wordpress blog to bang together a basic server with a skinned Mastodon platform and didn't do much else. They can't add more than a couple 1000 users, otherwise the server will probably brick itself. I don't see that wait list getting any smaller any time soon.