Posted on 08/13/2024 7:20:25 AM PDT by Starman417
You will recall that Trump was suspended from Twitter on January 6th. Elon Musk un-suspended Trump earlier this year, provoking hysterical yips of fear from corporate media. But Trump did not use his Twitter account. Yesterday, he came back. It was a flex, an early sign of a shift in the Trump Campaign. He’s going on offense. Variety ran the first story yesterday, headlined “Donald Trump Returns to Posting on X/Twitter After Year-Long Break Ahead of Elon Musk Interview.” Here is Trump’s first X post since January 6th, 2021:
I’ll get to the historic Twitter Space interview in a moment. But after his first tweet yesterday, Trump kept tweeting (mostly campaign videos) till bedtime. One was this terrific ad (2:31), which inspired me, and it might inspire you, too.
I called Trump’s return to Twitter/X a ‘flex’ because, until yesterday, the Democrats have been running against a candidate who was not on Twitter. Think about that for a minute. If Twitter is, as many report, the most viewed media platform in the world, Trump’s self-imposed Twitter exile was a major handicap.
What else has Trump been holding in reserve?
Setting that aside, Trump set history last night in what was probably the biggest Twitter Space in history. The last record was set when Elon Musk interviewed Ron DeSantis (300K concurrent listeners). Some sources showed over 17 million concurrent listeners tuned in for Elon’s Trump interview:
Corporate media was panicking long before the interview began. At yesterday’s White House press briefing, in a hilarious self-own, a Washington Post reporter actually asked whether the Biden Administration planned to “stop” the Musk-Trump interview (because of misinformation):
But, despite WaPo’s heroic efforts to prevent it, the interview aired anyway. They were right to fear. The interview crushed all previous records. So the media was, reluctantly, forced to cover that which they’d most feared.
Foreign media had a fairly neutral take. For example, the BBC reported, “Elon Musk hosts friendly chat with Donald Trump on X after tech delays..”
India Today even recognized the interview’s historic nature:
The Wall Street Journal was perhaps the only U.S. platform to report it straight: “Trump and Musk, on X, Discuss Immigration and Shared Vision for U.S..” Having done that much, the Journal maniacially focused on the interview’s initial 35-minute delay (Musk said it was a DDOS attack), and never mentioned how many folks tuned in.
Journalists are well aware Twitter replacing them, and worse, Trump is the Bad Orange Man. So apart from the WSJ, corporate media hated the interview, reaching for their critical thesauruses to find synonyms for failure to describe the historically-successful interview. Here are a few example headlines. First, Politico called it a ‘catastrophe’:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
I’ll fix this headline for them:
“When [a] Billion Viewers Tune In, it becomes nigh impossible for the media to spin it their way”
What do we think of the timing. Should he have held this until after the convention because she’s about to get another billion dollars worth of media praise.
Another brilliant end-run around the corporate media, which has been scooped once again.
Was the objective achieved? We won’t know for several days, or perhaps not until the election is declared closed and the votes properly counted.
But well worth it to see the collective anti-Trumpers soiling their underwear.
They are very good liars. They will figure out a way whether it makes any sense or not.
BTTT
Poor Flopping Aces, there is no Twitter.
Any second now there will be some kind of emergency order signed regulating the internet and free flow of data. It don’t matter that it will be struck down, that will drag on til past the election of course.
The Enemedia can’t force people to watch the treason-laden Demonicrat National Convention. All the Enemedia can do is orgasmically repeat the lies told by Kamalamadingdong, Tampontim, Slick Willy, She-who-will-not-be-named, Traitorbarry, Big Mike, and any other Zombiecrats.
“Journalists are well aware Twitter replacing them”
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It can’t happen soon enough. Last night was a good start.
We don’t need them filtering and shaping our news, and trying to tell us what to think.
When others look back on this era, some will call Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter his $40b contribution to the GOP. Because issues otherwise buried by big media receive oxygen on Twitter, and many of these issues are GOP-friendly in that the Democrats have some really obviously crazy policies that make things worse.
If Kamala wanted to go on X to have a conversation with Musk, that could be easily arranged. But we know she won’t because she is afraid of potentially tough questions.
What do we think of the timing.
Perfect timing, opportune. Any big MSM praising Kamala is going to be obvious and copycat. Trump and Musk conversation was anything but contrived and fake.
musk invited her
Musk invited Harris to have a similar interview; of course, she refused, because she knows what an air head she is.
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Good news
I don’t think Elon could stand a conversation with her.
It would be like talking to a giggling Yogi Berra.
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