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Link to tweet
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We cant let a more sophisticated version of that....
....happen again. Just like we cant let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!
7:11 AM - May 27, 2020
...ramping up his inner Hitler, it appears.
On edit: a reminder to Trump:
Link to tweet
Vanita Gupta ✔@vanitaguptaCR
In 2016, Russians and others manipulated social media platforms and engaged in voter suppression to help make him president.
7:50 AM - May 27, 2020
dem4decades
(11,288 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)opponents. The cult can use social media forever.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)patricia92243
(12,595 posts)not allowed to talk freely on Facebook etc. Amazing.
Mike Niendorff
(3,460 posts)... will the Russians give him a refund?
MDN
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)On second thought, keep getting all riled up - Whatever it takes to get rid of you for good.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)Forever the conspiracy theory about how 'they" want to control "us" and "we" must retaliate..
It gets real old when you see this chapter out of their playbook over and over... uff.....
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JonLP24
(29,322 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)AirmensMom
(14,642 posts)The shutting it down part, that is. What would MF45 do on his golden toilet without Twitter? Facebook is nothing but a conservative echo chamber and a way for them to spread lies. So yeah, shut them down.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)that 1984 was meant as a cautionary tale, not a political manifesto.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)They didn't ban him or even remove his lying tweets. They're just expressing their right to call him out on those lies. It's the very least they could do.
Norbert
(6,039 posts)If I didn't unfriend or stop conservative friends from posting on my Facebook page they would dominate. I have one friend in particular that his account is an aggregator for FAUX, Judicial Watch, The Blaze and others. Had I not stopped him he would dominate. Upon hearing what I did he said, "You don't want to know the truth then." I laughed.
Tell me again that the right wing is suppressed on social media.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)That's the part they REALLY hate, that they're maxed out in their numbers. There's only so many stupid and hateful people in the world that would agree with their diseased worldview.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Trump makes another empty, impotent threat"
Yeah, I think that covers it.
demmiblue
(36,845 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)Good grief, biggest dumbass.
demmiblue
(36,845 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)him to leave to "spend more time with his family" soon.