Trump's Truth Social App Branded a Disaster (bbc.com) 305
Donald Trump's Truth Social has "been a disaster," says Joshua Tucker, director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics. According to the BBC, "The app launched on Presidents' Day, 21 February, but six weeks later is beset by problems. A waiting list of nearly 1.5 million are unable to use it." From the report: Truth Social might look like Twitter, but it isn't available on Android phones, web browsers or, apparently, to most people outside the US. And a Republican ally of Mr Trump's, who did not wish to be identified, said: "Nobody seems to know what's going on." On 21 February, Truth Social was one of the App Store's most downloaded apps -- but many who downloaded it were unable to use it. There was an assumption this problem would soon be resolved and Mr Trump would start posting his "truths" in the coming days -- but neither of those things happened. My attempt to register, this week, was placed at number 1,419,631 on the waiting list.
While YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook are among the 10 most downloaded apps, according to Similar Web, Truth Social is outside the top 100. Users who find their way in can find the app a little empty, as many big voices on the American right have so far stayed away. Another study found downloads have fallen by as much as 95%. And many are feeling frustrated. "Signed up for Truth Social a couple weeks ago and still on a waiting list," one Twitter user said, on Tuesday. "By the time I'm off the waiting list and on to Truth Social for real, Trump will be President again," joked another. The report says Mr Trump "has not posted a 'truth' for well over a month."
"Maybe they're holding him back," Mr Tucker said. "That's his last chance to launch it - when suddenly Trump comes in and starts being really active on it, that will get a buzz."
While YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook are among the 10 most downloaded apps, according to Similar Web, Truth Social is outside the top 100. Users who find their way in can find the app a little empty, as many big voices on the American right have so far stayed away. Another study found downloads have fallen by as much as 95%. And many are feeling frustrated. "Signed up for Truth Social a couple weeks ago and still on a waiting list," one Twitter user said, on Tuesday. "By the time I'm off the waiting list and on to Truth Social for real, Trump will be President again," joked another. The report says Mr Trump "has not posted a 'truth' for well over a month."
"Maybe they're holding him back," Mr Tucker said. "That's his last chance to launch it - when suddenly Trump comes in and starts being really active on it, that will get a buzz."
Omit (Score:2, Insightful)
Could have omitted the "'s Truth Social App" from the title.
As expected and roundly predicted (Score:5, Insightful)
Nearly everyone around Trump is a completely incompetent toady, due to the incentives he sets up. We saw that repeatedly while he was in office. There was no way this was going to be anything but a disaster.
Because the only skill he values is how just how hard you can lick his shoes (or other bits) while telling him how great he is in between slurps. For gods sake, if you actually cared if something works you wouldn't have Devin Nunes in charge.
Re: As expected and roundly predicted (Score:3, Funny)
Re: As expected and roundly predicted (Score:4, Insightful)
Sure, but they could have started with a decent website for maximum access.
I can't answer to when scale starts to be a problem (or the current user base), but I would think a few million wouldn't require nearly the infrastructure you're talking about in current times.
I would think somewhere between 1 million and 100 million it starts to get hard.
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Re: As expected and roundly predicted (Score:2)
I was WAY off on scalability too.
I'm sure there's been improvements since this blog post, but that seems like a lot of hardware for 40k users to me.
http://blog.joinmastodon.org/2... [joinmastodon.org]
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The right person would be able to choose a distributed (cloud) database. Edge deployment / edge functions are a no-brainer I feel like. They literally only needed a single competent person on their team and they somehow still blew it. Social media is hard I guess, who knew?
It's most definitely not that simple. Sure, you can use a cloud database..usually. But AWS kicked Parler off their infrastructure, and what we're talking about here is basically a Parler successor. One can argue that Truth Social totally isn't Parler 2.0, or one could argue that Donald could give Larry Ellison a call and be up front about what's being done and perhaps Larry would expressly agree they could host on Oracle Cloud with impunity...but there is expressly precedent that Truth Social, combined with
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Making an app available to millions on 3 major platforms is not trivial.
No, it *used to* not be trivial. You don't need to invent anything these days. Facebook open sourced their database and development, cloud services provide wonderful scale provisioning. No one needs to care about load distribution or database development because the hard work is already done.
There is no way that non - tech billionaires have a clue to how to even spec such a system
You're delusional if you think Trump spec'd anything. His role is to surround himself with competent people who can get a job done. Mind you the reason we all knew Truth Social would be a disaster is due to who we witne
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Billionaire? The former alleged president? Stop reading his press releases.
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The problem here is that he spent the 5 previous years alienating anyone who actually could get the job done - he pissed off everyone competent in the tech sector, or any cloud service that could actually scale the way they need to. So he was starting from a really deep hole to begin with.
Then he hired a political hack to be CEO, for some reason.
Then, they tried to just use an open source Twitter clone as their base, but didn't play by the open source rules so before they even launched, they were already g
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Maybe he should have hired Devin Nunes' cow?
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To be fair, he's a spherical cow.
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"you wouldn't have Devin Nunes in charge" Wot? A former dairy farmer isn't fit to run a media company? His hire fits the former alleged president's thinking he can hire just any old schlemiel to run something, e.g., Betsy du Vos or that wrestling exec's wife for the small business administration.
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"TDS afflicted retards" I don't think we need to bring the ability to believe the former alleged president into this.
I wonder how many Nunes Cow accounts (Score:5, Informative)
I have already had content censored. It does not seem to be any explanation, the posts are just gone. I wonder if part of the problem is they humans censoring content. The TOS basically says anything that hurts the feeling of the owners or they donâ(TM)t like will be censored. It is kind of broad, so it must be the Chinese or Russian model.
Re:I wonder how many Nunes Cow accounts (Score:5, Insightful)
I’m looking forward to what Bernie Sanders and AOC have to say over there. Oh wait they’re banned? Isn’t that odd.
Re: I wonder how many Nunes Cow accounts (Score:2)
Probably just incompetence. I kind of doubt their software even works.
Re:I wonder how many Nunes Cow accounts (Score:4, Insightful)
The TOS basically says anything that hurts the feeling of the owners or they donâ(TM)t like will be censored.
The bastion of free speech that Twitter never was! That's right wing politics in a nutshell for you. We only pass laws when *other people* do something we don't like.
DWAC dick wacked shareholders too (Score:2)
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Re: DWAC dick wacked shareholders too (Score:4, Informative)
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DWAC and SPAC. All I can think of is the worst Batman fight scene EVER.
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It is now around $500.
False. [google.com]
Currently trading at $48. So I guess you're only off by a little over an order of magnitude - not the biggest lie ever told about Trump's success, or the fact that everything he touches turns to shit eventually. But still a lie that took about 2 seconds to show completely false.
This doesn't bode well (Score:3, Insightful)
While I personally would like to see Trumpism relegated to the dustbin of history, I would've preferred to see normal market forces sort things out in the social media sector. A failure of Truth Social is just going to further reignite calls from conservatives to enforce their brand of "free speech" on private companies, and as we've already seen with DeSantis and Disney [miamiherald.com], what they really mean is freedom to only the sort of speech conservatives want spoken.
Truth Social isn't the type of platform I'd ever want to use. I don't imagine they'd take kindly to a left-leaning-centrist gay guy on there, anyway. Regardless of my personal feelings, I still respect their rights to have their own echo chamber where they can circle-jerk 24/7 about Trump's latest conspiracy du jour. Creating your own forum with blackjack and hookers is how the internet is supposed to work.
Re:This doesn't bode well (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't imagine they'd take kindly to a left-leaning-centrist gay guy on there, anyway.
Actually, they'd love to have a liberal on there so they could high-five each other while the "own the lib".
One of the other critiques I read about the site is that since there aren't many liberals on there getting outraged at all the "truths" the righties are posting, they're just not having much fun on the site.
It's the ultimate expression of "don't feed the trolls". A social media site of only trolls just isn't any fun for them.
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I don't think it would work the way you think it would work.
It would fail in the market because there's just not good advertising opportunities side by side with that kind of content. Then they would complain about how they're being censored, and then try to get laws passed to ensure others have to pay them for their speech.
Being conservative doesn't mean they believe in the free market: the belief only holds when the invisible hand is punching someone else in the nuts. If they're on the receiving end then
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A failure of Truth Social is just going to further reignite calls from conservatives to enforce their brand of "free speech" on private companies,
I can't help but wonder if your newfound devotion to "private companies" is going to outlast, say, Elon Musk buying up Twitter.
Even Trump doesn't post on TrumpTok (Score:4, Interesting)
I somehow got through the waitlist, and what do you know, the Dear Leader has posted only a single "Truth" asking that we watch this space, or something similar. Doesn't bode well for his inevitable 2024 campaign. SAD!
It's a resounding success (Score:5, Insightful)
In case I need to spell it out I believe these are more than likely simple bribes. Trump will continue to get these bribes until such time as he is no longer potentially politically and financially useful.
Trump gave away trillions in COVID relief (Score:3)
So no, this is very much not a scam but an investment with the possibility of very large future return. A few billion in exchange for trillions is well worth it. Trump was a fantastic return on investment for the 1%.
Well just Putin some more effort! (Score:3)
For the "Finest People" LOL! (Score:2)
From someone who is in the middle of the road (Score:2)
Trump is a disaster.
It's the server, stupid! (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm betting this thing was spearheaded with UAX designers who delivered a prototype that got signed off by the stakeholders. The prototype was coded on iOS because their team knows how to make phone apps and that's what they delivered- an app. Not a social network.
What they shoulda done is built the thing containerized with a tightly defined REST API. There's a POC javascript client that can load in a browser or framed in an iOS or Android app quickly thrown together in an afternoon and it talks REST to the containers wherever they're hosted.
Anyone is allowed to build and market their own client apps but they have to pay for their API keys. This shifts the UI support & development costs to the third-parties and allows this social network to launch and scale on a shoestring budget. Containerization forces the devs to keep everything cloud-agnostic so it can be hosted anywhere should they face de-platforming in the future.
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The people smart enough to do this were not hired to do the job. It is likely that people were chosen based on personal loyalty and not qualifications.
"Truth" (Score:4, Interesting)
Anyone else see this? (Score:5, Funny)
His web site was a failure too (Score:2)
A Trump business that is failing ? (Score:2)
Daily Stormer (Score:4, Funny)
Hard to screw it up this much (Score:2)
It's so bad
apply a fair time scale (Score:2)
What ??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Trump's Truth Social App Branded a Disaster
The man who bankrupted six casinos, flew an airline into the ground, bankrupted a football league, burned down a magazine, tanked a mortgage company, burned down a vodka brewery, had to pay compensations to avoid getting convicted for fraud over his university, and short circuited a telephone company, the most perfect genome intelligent design can produce, the greatest business genius in human history, the man chosen by the ever infallible US voting public to run the USA like he runs his businesses crapped up another business venture? IMPOSSIBLE!
Re: What ??? (Score:2)
How hard can it be? (Score:2)
So - it's basically a cut down twitter clone? If they've got budget for some competent software engineers then what's the problem?
It was successful (Score:4, Interesting)
Late Stage Capitalism: Trump is on course to pocket the "Truth Social" money [dailykos.com]
You don't make money off of the business plan, you make money off of the investors who believe in the promise of a forthcoming business plan.
"One of Trump’s fellow money-launderers, Patrick Orlando, whom Trump undoubtedly met while participating in Russian money laundering schemes with Deutsche Bank, the world’s foremost money laundering organization, set up a thing called a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). SPACs are emblematic of the final late stages of capitalism. These are lovingly called “blank check” vehicles. They allow a fraudster, or even a legitimate entrepreneur, to set up a dummy corporation and to sell shares to the public with basically no business plan at all. They simply state they will invest the money in something, sometime. The investors have the right to pull out their money once those prospective investments are revealed."
Shocked (Score:3)
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Trump is not a politician. He is a business man. And not a very good one at that either.
Honestly, he's better suited to sales. Which perfectly marries up with his make-up-facts style, obsession with appearance, and ability to hoodwink millions of Americans.
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Trump is not a politician. He is a business man. And not a very good one at that either.
He's a wannabe actor [imdb.com]. Most actual businessmen don't spend nearly as much time trying to break in to Hollywood as Trump has. I'm convinced the only reason he even ran for president was because he had something to prove to the so-called "Hollywood elites" who rejected him. Either that, or it was all just a scheme to finally get a no-fly-zone over Mar-a-Lago [forbes.com].
Trump was obviously an excellent politician (Score:2, Interesting)
He became President. QED.
Did much better than thousands of other politicians that would like to become president. And with only a fairly modest fortune behind him.
Was he good for America? Would you buy a used car from him? Those are different questions. But there is no doubt that he is an excellent politician. He won the primaries coming from nowhere, and then the top job.
The same has to be said for Biden, although he worked at it for a lot longer.
Re:Trump was obviously an excellent politician (Score:5, Informative)
If I applied for a job as a surgeon, and managed to get it, but did not actually study medicine.. that wouldn't make me a good surgeon.
You're a good polician if you are able to run the country well.
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You're a good polician if you are able to run the country well.
No. The singular definition of a politician is that they are professionally into politics. Their mark at how good they are depends solely on their ability to climb a political ladder.
You're a good leader / president if you run the country well. But you're an outstanding politician if you manage to get yourself elected as president using any means other than force.
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Nope, you did not get the job as a surgeon without the qualifications.
The qualifications for being a successful politician is to be able to convince ordinary Americans to vote for you. Trump is eminently qualified for that. Which says a lot about ordinary Americans...
It's a tricky thing, but I think the problem is that you started with "he was an excellent politician" and moved to "he was a successful politician". The latter is certainly true. The former is not so clear cut.
Trump was obviously a failure as a politician (Score:5, Interesting)
No, that's the qualification for being an elected politician.
Being a successful one is a performance-based evaluation; and based on the sound drubbing he took when he tried to get re-elected, not to mention his criminal attempt to speciously invalidate the results, he wasn't successful. The majority of voters said "nope, no more of this guy" and off into his orange-tinted mist he went.
We could go on for pages about just how bad he was, and the long, long list of things he failed at and/or did wrong. From grotesquely mishandling COVID to failing at "the wall" to destroying the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau to having DeJoy significantly damage the USPS and so, so much more, Trump's time in power was a sterling example of "how not to president."
Not only was he not a successful politician or even a mediocre president, he botched his re-election for a second term, which would have occurred if he was any good at the job, as it did for 21 out of the 46 US presidents so far.
So, no. Not a successful politician at all.
Re: Trump was obviously a failure as a politician (Score:5, Informative)
"He failed covid response yet twice as many died from covid under Biden in a single year"
Not Biden's fault you idiots won't get vaccinated.
Re: Trump was obviously a failure as a politician (Score:5, Informative)
The UK NHS has official statistics that show the vaccination status of those dying to Omicron at this point.
And the percentage of those dying that have been vaccinated is within 1-3% the very same as the percentage of people that have been vaccinated among the general population.
Look it up, take calendar week 13 (starting March 28th '22) as an example. Do it, instead of downvoting, research the percentage of those dying in the UK with 3 vaccines and compare that number to the respective percentage among all people in the UK.
you could have provided a source pretty easily, but didn't. So I automatically assumed you to be wrong. A feeling further reinforced by the fact that week 13 was last week, and I couldn't find and look at this: https://assets.publishing.serv... [service.gov.uk] An effectiveness against mortality of 59% against 2 doses and 95% against 3 doses.
I did find data for januari 2022 here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep... [ons.gov.uk]
And that shows in januari an age-standardised mortality rate per 100,000 person-years of 106.7 for the "ever vaccinated" group and 558.9 for "unvaccinated".
You might call a factor of 5 "within 3%", but I doubt that you're reading the data correctly, which is probably why you didn't provide your source.
Vaccine [Re: Trump was obviously a failure...] (Score:5, Informative)
The UK NHS has official statistics that show the vaccination status of those dying to Omicron at this point. And the percentage of those dying that have been vaccinated is within 1-3% the very same as the percentage of people that have been vaccinated among the general population.
I don't know why people make up shit that can be easily checked. Vaccinated people have a much lower death rate than vaccinated.
You claim that the UK NHS says differently Here is what the NHS [ons.gov.uk] says: "In the period July to December 2021, the age-adjusted risk of death involving coronavirus (COVID-19) was 93.4% lower for people who had received a third dose, or booster, at least 21 days ago compared with unvaccinated people.
Here are a some more links: https://fortune.com/2022/02/04... [fortune.com]
https://ourworldindata.org/gra... [ourworldindata.org]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go... [nih.gov]
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Couldn't find specific stats for week 13 but this site would indicate that your hypothesis is wrong as of January 31, 2022. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep... [ons.gov.uk]
You will notice in Figure 1 that the red line (deaths of people with 3 shots of vaccine) is much lower than the green line (deaths of people with no vaccine). You could argue though that if you only have two shots of vaccination and it has been 6 months or more since your last shot you are worse off than having no vaccination (solid blue line).
He is ano
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I don't know why people make up shit that can be easily checked. Vaccinated people have a much lower death rate than vaccinated.
In my county, when people get sick after being vaccinated, it's usually because they got vaccinated right after their spouse got covid, or they had some kind of immunodeficiency problem. Once people are fully vaccinated, the chances of dying from covid are very very low.
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Cool. Now do hospital admissions. What percentage of covid cases admitted to the hospital are unvaccinated versus vaccinated?
Nobody ever claimed that the vaccines were 100%, but you sure knocked the hell out of that strawman.
Re: Trump was obviously a failure as a politician (Score:5, Insightful)
What I love is this idea about the current inflation being Biden's fault. In general, US Presidents seem to get both too much blame and too much credit for economic markers. It does seem like administrations do affect the economic health of the country, of course, but that's mostly more of a long-term thing (with a long tail, so you can never be clear whose policies are really effecting things in the early days of an administration). Not to mention that Congress also has a lot to do with it along with the Executive branch. Even the Judicial branch plays a role. Even then, government is just part of it.
What I find really, really interesting about it is that there's a very basic principle that you learn in a first-year macroeconomics course called the Phillips curve. Now, like most things in the dismal science of Economics, the Phillips curve is up for debate and also, its very existence has the possibility to affect its results. So, it's certainly fair to argue that it's not a good model of the real world. Still, what the Phillips curve states is that there's an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation. So, if unemployment goes down, inflation will go up. Despite the existence of this supposed fundamental principle, it seems like pretty much no mainstream news source (except maybe ones meant primarily for economists) seems to be mentioning that inflation is an absolutely expected result of low unemployment according to basic principles of economics.
Of course, I seriously question how real the current official inflation rate. It certainly seemed to me like prices were actually rising fairly constantly through the previous years of very low inflation, but the official inflation rate did not reflect that. Maybe it's a result of overall inflation being offset by low prices on some things (for example, during Covid, there are a lot of things that people did not do as much like driving, going to restaurants, etc. so prices for many of those things went down because demand went down). Also, during the Trump Presidency, he did his best to pull various economic triggers that you're supposed to reserve for when the economy is sinking and can't pull that often with the explicitly stated goal of keeping inflation rates low. So, honestly, in a lot of ways, it seems to me that the inflation rate, averaged out over the last few years, or even the last decade has been pretty low and what we're seeing now is just a correction.
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This analysis presumes that it was his actions and choices that put him into the position of president. A more accurate statement would be that Trump was the (figure)head for the group able to leverage the most political force during that election campaign. From the outside you can't gauge if he is an excellent politician or just told what to do by some.
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That assumes that becoming president is dependent on some level of competence in the job. It's clearly not, it's a popularity contest at best.
Plato may have been right.
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Re: Did he ever? (Score:3)
No he's not really a businessman, or even a salesman, he's more of a promoter.
Re: Did he ever? (Score:2)
Reality would be that his sales were below average except for a few dubious big wins, that looked big at first, but were not thought through. End result, big deal, no profit and a lot of trouble
When he doesn't meet his 10x fold forecast, he'd put the blame on everyone else. With a lot of noise, and leave the company because it is beneat
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He was never even a not very good businessman. Checking his record, he's nothing more than a carnival barker. He doesn't hold small business owners in any great esteem either given the number of lawsuits he brought against them and how hard they had to fight to get paid for services rendered.
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Trump is now having the reverse Midas touch.
Re:Did he ever? (Score:5, Interesting)
Trump University: Shutdown for fraud
Trump Tampa: Failure & fraud
Trump Soho: Bankrupt
Trump Golf Aberdeen: Job promise scam
Trump Golf Puerto Rico: Bankrupt
Trump Chicago: Defaulted on 40M loan payment
Trump Panama - sued for management corruption
Trump Baja Mexico - failure & fraud
Trump Fort Lauderdale - scam & failure
Trump Vodka: business failure
Trump Steaks: business failure
Trump Shuttle: business failure
Trump Air: business failure
Trump Taj Mahal: bankrupt FOUR TIMES
Trump Plaza - bankrupt
Trump Indiana Riverboat Casino - bankrupt
Trump IPO: Failed
Trump Atlanta: Failure
Trump Charlotte: Failed
Trump Jupiter - lawsuit
Trump Waikiki Hotel - scam lawsuit
Of course, the common factor in all this failure is the involvement of Trump because Trump is a black hole of pathetic, simpering failure the likes of which the world has never seen before. And the reason it has never been seen before is as simple as it is incomprehensible: Despite being a failure the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, people who should have known better CONTINUED to give him money.
That's the real mystery.
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To be fair he's come out of all of those with a hell of a lot of money (even if it is less than he says). By some standards at least he'd be considered a success given that.
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He would have even more money if he just put his inheritance in a index fund all these years.
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Well given we don't know his actual net worth we can't know that but sure, that is speculated.
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You forgot:
Trump Presidency: undermined fundamental democractic values of US and almost resulted in a coup by a mob.
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Consider that Deutsche Bank was at one time the only bank that would lend him money, and, at that same time Deutsche Bank was involved in laundering Russian money.
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Unless your dinner last night consisted of a well-done steak dipped in with ketchup washed down with Diet Coke, you probably ate better than him. His wife looks too plastic to be attractive, and her personality is too plastic for her to be anything more than your average, shallow, boring twat otherwise. All the great places he's been to he's stupid to appreciate, and none of the people around him like him nor can be counted on for deep, fulfilling, meaningful relationships.
Jealousy? Honestly, if I were stuc
Re:Did he ever? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Did he ever? (Score:5, Informative)
No, not all the Trump hate is "just jealousy."
I don't give a fuck if he has shit tons of money, or a "hot wife" - There's literally hundreds of people with more money than him, and probably "bang" (to use your term) a long line of hot money-grubbing gold diggers any time they like, but I don't hate them for it, and I'm not jealous of them for it. The hate is because Donald J. Trump is one of the biggest pieces of shit to be elected to any constitutional office, as evidenced by his behavior, his policies, his own words, his actions, and further reporting about his involvement in an actual coup plot against the United States. And he's probably higher on that particular list than many notorious names of the past such as Richard Nixon, Roger Taney (of the Dred Scott decision), Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Andrew Johnson.
He's a reprehensible amoral narcissist sociopath of a person who stops at nothing to put himself above literally anybody including his own family and children. He's defrauded [bbc.com] and sued family [bbc.com]. He regularly sues people due to being butthurt over those people telling the truth to the point where anti-SLAPP legislation should have been named for him. For fuck's sake, there's an article on anti-slapp.org specifically about him and his over 4,000 lawsuits [anti-slapp.org] where he admits to filing a nuisance SLAPP lawsuit just to fuck over a journalist and their publisher who had the audacity to call him out on his lies:
"I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, and they spent a whole lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about." In the case to which he was referring, Trump v. O'Brien, 29 A.3d 1090, 1092 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 2011), Trump demanded $6 billion in damages from book author and publishers who alleged that he was "only" worth between $150 million to $250 million.
He cuddles up to overtly racist and violent organizations and parrots racist rhetoric [npr.org] because he requires these organizations and the racist people they speak towards to vote for him. He constantly lied while in office [washingtonpost.com] - far more than other politicians, to the point where the Washington Post had a team counting the lies which measured in the tens of thousands over 4 years - he literally lied over 30,000 times in 4 years, or just about 21 lies a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for 4 years. He blew off allies while selling out to autocrat dictators. He tried to drop a grenade into the middle of NATO for his autocrat dictator buddies that he still asks for help in live interviews [nbcnews.com] after proclaiming how "genius" [politico.com] their mass murder [ohchr.org] and war crimes [nytimes.com] are. 121 children dead and counting? Genius! Savvy! And, we get new evidence every day that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud the United States [wikipedia.org] by overthrowing an election he didn't win [270towin.com], after countless violations of "lesser" laws including the Emoluments Clause [politico.com], and the
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Re:Did he ever? (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, he often posted the truth. And then minutes later he posted the exact opposite. Or sometimes the lie came first, followed by the truth. I'm not sure if he ever knew which one was actually the truth and which one wasn't.
https://blog.uvm.edu/barcari/v... [uvm.edu]
Re:Did he ever? (Score:5, Insightful)
It may have been deliberate. By posting opposing arguments his supporters can believe two contradictory things simultaneously. Doublethink, as it was called in Nineteen Eighty Four.
His followers like that because it allows them to argue effectively, both with other people and in their own minds. Regardless of what argument is presented to them, they have an alternative fact that reassures them they were correct all along. For someone else hearing the alternative fact, if they wish to continue arguing their case they first have to waste large amounts of time and energy on debunking.
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No doubt he'll be one who storms daily.
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It's called double-think. Has been explained since 1984....
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He forgot about his "platform" until someone mentioned how much money it cost and how little return he was getting. Now the news stories are that he's looking to revamp the management. His key technical people have already left the building. I think we can expect him to blame them for the failure; he's very good at finding scapegoats to prevent any blame falling on him. He needs that modus operandi to find new marks.
Re:Did he ever? (Score:5, Informative)
He doesn't need to post anything resembling truth, he just has to post a Truth (tm), ...
Or maybe he won't actually post anything ...
According to this Rolling Stone article dated April 4, 2022:
Trump’s Truth Social App Is Bombing So Hard That Top Executives Are Quitting [rollingstone.com]:
Trump posted on the platform shortly after it launched in February.
“Get ready!” he wrote. “Your favorite President will see you soon!”
He hasn’t posted since.
Re:Did he ever? (Score:5, Funny)
Trump posted on the platform shortly after it launched in February. âoeGet ready!â he wrote. âoeYour favorite President will see you soon!â
Since informing users that they were about to see their favourite president (Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Eisenhower depending on choice) all of whom you'd need to be dead to see, this would seem to constitute a death threat, which is possibly why Mr.Trump was removed from the platform.
Re: Did he ever? (Score:2)
This is how he works. [Re:Did he ever?] (Score:5, Insightful)
He doesn't need to post anything resembling truth, he just has to post a Truth (tm), ...
Or maybe he won't actually post anything ...
This is exactly Donald Trump's business strategy. He licenses his name to an enterprise, takes in cash for using his name, but does no work; the actual running of the enterprise (and the costs of running the enterprise) are given to others.
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Pretty good representation of how he ran the country. Truth Social isn’t sending their best and brightest.
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I did see a piece from the CEO of Gab saying that it was Jared Kushner keeping Trump away, but I took that with a grain of salt because not even Trump is going pay attention to an idiot like Jared Kushner and nobody from Gab is going to criticise Trump directly because they're not allowed to.
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Or that hardcore Conservatives buy stuff from Apple?
Some might not, but really us humans are more alike than we're willing to admit. There are probably plenty of conservatives who don't feel like learning a new mobile OS just because Apple's PR department is "woke". It's the same way I know I shouldn't be eating at Chick-Fil-A because it's run by a homophobe, but they're the only fast food restaurant with something that passes for an edible salad.
Re: Sad State of politicians (Score:2)
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Your memory must not be very good, then. I'm 66 and I remember the late 70s and early 80s with inflation being much higher. [federalres...istory.org]
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Yeah more trade wars! that will be wonderful! And goodbye social security! nobody uses that anyway.
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100% correct. I am no fan of Trump but our lives are much better under Trump than under the Democrats. That is undeniable.
Huh? In what way were our lives better? The economy crashed, and the pandemic closed pretty much everything.
You could if you want argue "but that wasn't Trump's fault", but if you are simply stating "life was better under Trump"-- good GOD no it wasn't.
The Democrats have sold us out to the globalists.
A statement with no content. The US balance of trade dropped precipitously from 1997 through 2006: that is, Clinton and Bush (II). Equal blame for Dems and Republicans. It got better in the Obama years, but then dropped precipitously after Trump took offi
Fools (Score:2)
Biden was handed a dumpster fire! The biggest mess in the history of the USA.
You fools would have abandoned FDR in the 1st year and we'd all be speaking German now... I suppose you'd probably be happy with that.
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If only it were two minutes, lol ...
Meanwhile, Biden is a dumpster fire. And you know it, but can't say it.
Ah well, interesting times ...
Trump spend four years leg-humping Putin. Biden collapsed Putin's image as a Silverback Alpha-Male, strategic genius and icon of the American right wing with a few planeloads of Stingers and Javelins and exposed Putin's army as a military Potemkin village. Given the choice, In terms of choosing the lesser of two evils I'm going with Biden every day of the week and twice on Sundays.