Why would anyone have to sign up to Truth Social to see what he’s posted? Wouldn’t a single bot reposting it elsewhere do the job?

For the same reasons anyone signs up for Twitter, or Facebook, or Reddit, or Lemmy. Just to be a part of it. Or maybe to curry favor with Trump. Or because their job requires it if they’re a reporter. Or because they think they’ll somehow profit off it. Or because they’re cult members. Any number of reasons. Whatever the reason, my main point is that if Trump wins the Presidency, Trump Social becomes the de-facto social media arm of the most powerful and influential nation on Earth, which automatically means it goes from an also-ran Twitter knock-off to one of the world’s most important social media network. This alone absolutely will drive up user counts, and therefore ad revenue, and therefore Trump’s profits.

It’s corrupt as all hell and he’ll face…oh, wait…never mind. It’s legal now.

I’m pretty sure Musk is on board to hand him back the POTUS Twitter handle and say any censorship or moderation would be unconstitutional and unpatriotic. Regardless of the result, probably. He will not care if Truth Social tanks if he’s got that.

I will bet all my money that if Trump wins the election, Twitter and Trump Social will merge, it will be bought out in some shady and highly illegal deal where the government grossly overpays for both of them and they both walk away making billions, while Trump declares it an official government act and avoids prosecution.

Can confirm. I became a lay-z-boy recliner just to be offended.

This is and always has been nothing more than a glorified Las Vegas bet on whether or not Trump wins the election. People who think Trump is going to win are trying to get in on as close to the ground floor as possible.

If Trump loses, the investors lose all their money. Trump’s stock price tanks and his dime store social media platform becomes even more obscure and worthless.

If Trump wins, Truth Social essentially becomes the official social media platform of the President of the United States. Regardless of what you think of Trump, his platform, or anything else, this will drive people to the site in droves. It will force people to pay attention even if they don’t want to, because at the end of the day, he’ll still be President and that’s where all official information will be disseminated. It will bring in advertising revenue and the people who bought the stock previously will make absolute bank.

It’s literally the equivalent of taking your entire life savings to the Roulette table and putting it all on #27. You’re probably going to lose everything, but if you win, you’re going to be set for life. That’s what Trump’s investors are doing. Except their odds are much, much better.

Russian propaganda mills actually hire B movie writers

Have you ever seen a film from one of these countries? Russia, North Korea, etc? Those writers only hope to one day aspire to be at the level of B movies. I’ve seen porn with better plots.

Mail in ballots are just as easily placed in any blue post office box or your own mailbox which is impossible for would be destructors/interceptors to know when your ballot is in the mail.

Republicans can get bent.

They’ll just start blowing up the mailboxes, which would also serve the purpose of sowing distrust and unreliability in our postal system.

Can we stop putting up articles stuck behind paywalls please?

“Did __________ pull punches to appease Trump?”

The blank can be filled in with the following:

• The LA Times
• Every other media outlet for the past 10 years
• The entire Republican Party
• Politicians in general
• Our entire legal system

Trump’s rise to power solely rests on the fact that everybody continues to play Trump’s games by Trump’s rules and wondering why they keep losing. -

To be fair, they all do it. Every president has used his pardon power to release friends, family, etc. Trump’s corruption is blatant, but he’s far from the first to abuse the pardon power.

California is on the west coast. By the time the polls open and a MAGA moron does something stupid, voting in most of the country will already have been going on for hours, blunting its effectiveness. The most you’d do is disrupt a polling place that would hardly matter when compared to the rest of California, and would have no impact on the election since there’s zero chance CA is going red. And by the time it spreads around the country, most of the country will have already voted.

Pennsylvania is a battleground state and on the east coast. Not only would it be possible to actually alter the outcome of the election, but it would have the bonus of what would be blaring on every TV, news, podcast, twitter feed, and facebook post in the rest of the country when they wake up, causing a nationwide chilling effect before they even wake up. Maximum impact, maximum effectiveness.

Nothing’s gonna happen in California. It’s too blue to matter and it’s on the West coast. If there’s going to be an attack, it’ll be on the east coast so people across the country will wake up to hear the news.

A couple of lone-wolf attacks in a blue section of Pennsylvania, for example, could throw the entire state into chaos. I will bet all of the money and the left body part of your choice that Trump would immediately contest the election and the Supreme Court would immediately say the legalese equivalent of “Hey, sorry about the whole terror attack thing, but you could have mailed in your vote early. You had the opportunity to vote and chose not to. All Hail King Trump!”

This is what I’m worried about. Attacks and threats of violence at polling places in blue areas of battleground states. Heck, a gang of them just driving around in full Y’All Qaeda gear and carrying shotguns might be enough.

Or just one actual attack at like 7 AM. Doesn’t matter where. Just to send a message. I guarantee you. One actual attack in one polling place and watch participation drop by half in every battleground state.