we have a bunch of idiots in this thread.. cheering this on
imagine where this leads.. verizon is a private company.. so they can just ban whoever they don't like?
This is not good for the country. The ramifications are scary. Never forget the shoe eventually lands on the other foot even if it takes a while.
Great post, f450. I have a crystal ball here with me...hmm...I'm sensing...I'm sensing a
gulag Covid-19 Containment Safety Center in your near future.
I look at it this way:
If Big Tech has so much authority that they can consistently suppress and even outright censor the speech of the SITTING AMERICAN PRESIDENT...what does that mean for the rest of us?
We always talk about presidents just being figureheads, doing the bidding of the investment banks and other powers with deep pockets behind the scenes, but NEVER IN MY LIFE have we gotten to the point where the actual president has been consistently attacked to this extent.
On the flip side, Trump had a lot of opportunity to do something about this, and he didn't. He probably thought he would be reelected, and that using the full force of his resources to lay down the law on Big Tech censors, and rioters/looters and other lawbreakers would make him look tyrannical, and make some people fear what he might do if elected for a second term.
To me, it seemed like his second election was a shoe-in anyway, so I figured he would just get all that done during his second term, since he would have nothing to lose at that point, anyway.
Hindsight being 20/20, I think by doing nothing about the rioters was a bad idea, because he lost his image as a Law & Order president as a result. People have poor historical memories, so some probably voted for Joe Biden thinking that his presidency might put a stop to all of that...how, I don't know. But as said, people have poor memories, and probably just wanted change, given how bad 2020 was.
Some people probably naively felt a new president would somehow handle Covid-19 better, as if human beings are masters of nature.
And, IMO, there are way too many convenient mathematical anomalies for me to think that voting fraud didn't play a part in this election. Even if Biden would have won...the numbers don't make sense. Biden getting more votes than Obama?
LMAO...yeah, ok.
So, IMO:
[1] Trump should have clamped down on the riots. That would have only helped him to get votes. Because only the very fringe far-leftists want widescale riots. Neither Democrats nor Republicans want that level of unrest. I consider ending the riots to be nonpartisan.
[2] Tech censorship is a bit trickier. As Democrats don't seem to acknowledge just how discriminatory Big Tech is towards conservative views. And until they themselves start getting censored...I don't think they will care. And had Trump tried to stop that...Democrats would have perceived that as being an authoritarian, anti-liberal move.
Again, hindsight is 20/20. Lastly, I don't fault Trump, because I think he was confident he was going to win, given the huge turnouts he was getting at rallies, compared to Biden, whose "rallies" looked like a Ted Talk featuring a man giving a speech on living with dementia.
Had Trump had any doubt about being reelected, he probably would have done more about tech censorship while he held power.
