Don misses the tweeting
Hahahaha Loser Trump is trying to get around the Twitter ban, and failing.
Twitter has suspended an account replicating posts from former President Donald Trump’s new blog, saying it violated the company’s rules against ban evasion.
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The account profile for @DJTDesk — an abbreviation for the former president’s new “From The Desk of Donald J. Trump” web page — was taken down after tweeting posts identical to his messages on the blog, according to screenshots tweeted by NBC News and other users. The account featured branding identical to Trump’s website, including the same profile picture and banner, according to the images.
Pure coincidence. Nothing to do with Trump.
It was not immediately clear if the account was officially linked to the former president’s team or his Save America coalition, which funds the blog. Twitter declined comment on the matter.
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Not their first go-around: After Trump’s prolific personal Twitter account @realDonaldTrump was permanently suspended by Twitter on Jan. 8, his aides sought to circumvent the ban by posting messages identical to his tweets on his campaign account and the official White House account. Twitter responded by permanently suspending the Trump campaign account and removing the White House tweets.
Well that’s what happens when you try to insurrect.
I think it’s kind of funny to see the *Note: Not Donald J. Trump tweeting.
That sounds so much like what someone with a juvenile mind would think passed for clever.
“…Save America coalition, which funds the blog. ”
Amazing. Trump won’t even pay for his own blog.
Why should he when people like that sad sack standing by his lonesome in Blue as F$%$$ Alameda, California this past weekend, all Maga-hatted and rather foolish looking with his silly sign about the Derp State, continue to send him a portion of their retirement checks?
The hilarious part is that this not-even blog is obviously the ‘social media platform’ Trump promised his fans. He promised a world-dominating platform to take on Twitter and what we have instead is…. whatever that site is.
I wonder if he thinks it is a world-dominating social media platform. I wonder if the people around him have told him it is to keep him (relatively) quiet. Or told him it is so they can take home big suitcases of other people’s money.
I do enjoy it when idiots massively over-promise.
There’s not much that advertising or promoting can do to fix a fundamentally shitty product.
A slight OT digression, and I must stress highly this isn’t negative criticism as I am often guilty myself of the same, but the first time I read latsot’s comment I read it as “…[the site] is to keep him (relatively) quiet.” It took a couple seconds until my brain understood it to be interpreted as “…have told him it is [a word-dominating social media platform], to keep him (relatively) quiet.”
The comma may be the most massively useful marker ever invented despite being the second smallest possible in measurement. Maybe it should have been bigger so that the 2nd amendment could be more obvious in its intention. BTW I am very much in the Oxford comma camp if that isn’t clear by now.
There’s a conflict though between wanting clarity of meaning and wanting…what to call it…accuracy of expression. I omit commas of that type sometimes because I’m saying the thing all in one breath, so I don’t want a pause.
I have to admit that I never expected my writing to be compared unfavourably to Trump’s…
(I’m joking, Mike, I know you’re not doing that ;)
I had intended to expand my comment to include that the differences between reading, writing, and speaking are subtle but important. That same sentence being spoken would have been very clear most likely without any pause as you say. That’s why I wanted to stress it wasn’t necessarily negative critism, more a commentary on how fun language is. :)
It is definitely a tension though. You can have all in one breath or you can have clarity, but not both.
I love commas, (and parentheses, obviously), but additionally, “scare quotes” are fun too. :)
twiliter, I love semi-colons; ever since being told by a writer’s guild that they were never to be used in fiction, I use them as often as they are called for. (Well, I actually used them before being told that, but now I do it with gleeful relish.)
Oh yes, semi-colons are definitely in the top five; I am never entirely sure if I am using them correctly. ;)