




Written on the walls at the house of sorrow
You can find the names of those who burned
Greater yet, the pain in little drawings
I could not remain in that room





Fuck this… I’m not done there. For the last… really, since the Obama administration, but but there’s been a particular emboldening about the terminology used during the last four… I’ve constantly been hearing, “If a restaurant doesn’t wanna serve niggers and yids, they shouldn’t have to”, “if a baker doesn’t want to bake a cake for faggots and dykes, they shouldn’t have to”, “if people have a problem with it, the market will take care of it”, etc., etc. Now that they’re seeing that very principle of laissez-faire capitalism being applied in a way that doesn’t favor them, now suddenly they’re against it. Funny how that works, isn’t it? Now, how DARE they ban someone’s account. How DARE they remove themselves as a potential platform for seditionists to congregate. Well, if people don’t like it, then the market will take care of it, right?
Written on the walls at the house of sorrow
You can find the names of those who burned
Greater yet, the pain in little drawings
I could not remain in that room
Apparently Nancy Pelosi got that Lectern back. I'm looking right at it on Morning Joe. Wonder what's going to happen to the Idiot that stole it?
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it
We are getting quite far off the original topic. I think the Trump policy while not the most humane ; was humane enough. You disagree and that's fine. In fact you are outraged and that's O.K. too. Afaik you have expressed your outrage and disgust with Trump and almost all of his policies and that is fine and dandy. I have asked you what you would do with those children that does not encourage bad behavior i.e. illegal entry ? Compared to the way most countries treat illegal immigrants, including most of Western Europe our detention facilities and policies were relatively humane
S-Web is a forum . Open to all who obey the rules afaik. Those who get suspended and occasionally banned have broken those rules. Usually after repeated warnings. Few if any are missed. Except for Melonie of course lol.
Twitter and 'Facebook are platforms. Whether their owners like it or not, they have become part of the public forum. They have become an essential part of political communication for both parties and various public figures. Dorsey admitted yesterday that banning Trump was an extreme measure that he himself finds troubling. I'll dig out his exact quote and post it in due course.





FACTS. In the 80s and 90sthatwas their jam! They stayed on the phone calling a CEO or board of directors of network head to get things cancelled. When others take a page out of that book, they derisively call it Cancel Culture! This is merely the market responding to people endangering their brand power. Trump has been horrible for business.
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.” - ECKHART TOLLE
From Dorsey's statement yesterday : Banning accounts " has real and significant ramifications. I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation . ... these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us .They limit the potential for clarification, redemption and learning.
AND SETS A PRECEDENT I FEEL IS DANGEROUS : The power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation. ... over the long term it will be destructive to the noble purpose and ideals of the open internet. "
He did it because he claimed that Trump promoted or encouraged violence. Well it turns out that the extremist nuts were storming the Capitol while Trump was still speaking over a mile away. Trump DID encourage those attending the rally to "Peacefully and patriotically PROTEST ". If he banned Trump for repeated lies that's easily dealt with by exposing those lies. Fact checking and awarding "Pinocchios " seems to be more appropriate than banning Trump





He is currently in custody reviewing his Life Choices! He tried to sell it on EBAY and gave himself away in the attempt.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ed/ar-BB1cBZVS
Adam Christian Johnson, 36, is charged with multiple counts, including knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; theft of government property; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The counts are summarized in a press release from the Justice Dept. That same press release summarizes Johnson’s crime saying, “Johnson illegally entered the United States Capitol and removed the Speaker of the House’s lectern from where it had been stored on the House side of the Capitol building. In a Statement of Facts, submitted by Special Agent Jeng of the FBI, the lectern is described as being valued at more than $1,000 by a curator for the House of Representatives.
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.” - ECKHART TOLLE



I think he's being too hard on Twitter. No matter what, we aren't in an ideal world. There are some people that can never be part of healthy conversation, and other amoral opportunists that will take advantage of a giant soapbox to manipulate populists into getting them into or keeping them in power.
This again. You're being intentionally obtuse. One statement does not undo an hour of speech with phrases like "rigged election," an "egregious assault on democracy," "you'll never take back the country with weakness, you have to show strength," and (here's the worst one) "the election was stolen, let’s march to the Capitol."
This only works in an ideal world. There already are fact checking resources; do you think the median American uses them? Hell no! People wouldn't have fallen for five years of baseless claims and outright lies if this was the case. There already are annotations on content that is disputed or questionable. And to certain people, those messages noting these claims get ignored and are seen as "the lamestream media covering up the truth!"
Trump said the part about “peaceful protest” to cover his ass legally but you seem to have missed the years of him manipulating a portion of his supporters (the unstable ones) who “showed up and fought like hell”
When you lie it’s EASY to manipulate and negatively influence people to do what you want them to do.
His lies were tagged as false yet and his deranged supporters STILL believe every word coming out his mouth in addition to spreading his lies. His lies were constantly exposed but yet he kept doing it over n over again.
When a person is in a position of leadership it’s more dangerous to allow constant falsehoods to be consistently mass distributed. Leaders are expected to be held to higher standards than the average Joe. Freedom of speech has limits and there are consequences to what you say.
This is where Trump fails. He (nor a portion of his supporters) doesn’t understand the concept of consequences for one’s action. Most people are scared of Trump n don’t hold him accountable when he fucks up.
He fucked up admitting to being a sexual predator. He fucked up mocking disabled people, women, blacks n Hispanics. He fucked up ignoring coronavirus threat. He fucked up riling up his supporters which lead to violence at the capitol. Mfs are tired of his shit and his supporters constant gaslighting.
When a child keeps breaking rules you have to make the punishment more severe for each infraction or else they’ll just keep doing the negative behavior which gets worse over time.
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I have repeatedly expressed agreement with part of your post. Trump WAS a sore loser . He FAILED to exhibit anything resembling good grace. He had no business holding that rally. His statements WERE lies for the most part . He did tell them to go to the Capitol albeit "peacefully and patriotically ". The issue or question is : To do what ? To try and pressure Congress and Pence ? Whether he likes it or not the people who went to that rally were Trump supporters . He bears responsibility for their being at the rally.
Trump smeared himself with his own feces by A. pursuing nonsensical election challenges and B. not taking any of several opportunities to call a halt to the nonsense BEFORE any of it got out of hand. Not to mention various statements and tweets that bore no relation to reality. Until yesterday, his statements were weak and inadequate. Yesterday he was a day late and a dollar short . To put it mildly.
A big part of the problem appears to be that Trump does not or cannot understand how and why he lost. In the hope that he is closet reader of this board let's help him out. Trump lost because ( in descending order ) :
1.Covid. Including his slow response to same and the collateral economic damage from the shutdowns. Not to mention Trump's silly catfighting with Fauci and others.
2. Trump is not a professional politician and didn't listen to those who are . He confused and conflated rally attendance with voter turnout. The Dems had a much better ground game and understood mail-in voting and used it to their advantage. He had a rebounding economy that he could have and should have emphasized but wouldn't listen to Kudlow and Steve Moore who told him to keep hammering away on dinner table issues.
3. Trump's performance in the FIRST debate. Loud, rude , arrogant and without the good sense to let Joe prattle on and lose himself in the weeds. It turned off even more of the suburban housewives Trump needed to win.
4. Donald Trump. He was his own worst enemy.
He did NOT lose because of media bias. There certainly was but Trump could have and should have bypassed them the way he did the last time. If he really had the goods on Hunter and Joe, and Twitter was blocking news reports and the mainstream media wasn't reporting, then why didn't Trump roll out a commercial or two setting out the hanky panky ?
It was NOT a rigged election. As I have explained, the Dems understood early voting and mail-in voting better than Trump did. Whatever irregularities and fraud there may have been was minor and not enough to affect the vote totals in any state. Not Georgia. Not Pennsylvania. None of the battleground states that Trump lost. The Dems had a better ground game and out-registered new voters and got them to vote.
I am sure there were other factors that played a role but I just tried to hit the highlights.
Nothing was "stolen" . Joe won and little Donnie lost. Period.








Trump knowingly incites violence towards others. A Republican member of Congress who voted to impeach Trump bought body armor because he fears for his life, from Trump supporters. There were other Republicans who wanted to vote for impeachment, but didn't, because they feared for their lives.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbre...-for-his-life/
If that's not terrorism, I don't know what is.
Trump knows his rhetoric leads to violence, but he continues saying the same things. ABC News did an investigation, and found 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. They found zero cases for Obama and Bush.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blam...ry?id=58912889
This is why tech firms were right to silence Trump on social media.










Cops posing w/rioters for selfies, really?
https://news.yahoo.com/capitol-polic...125909336.html
MANY MEN WANTED TO LAY ME DOWN, BUT FEW WANTED TO LIFT ME UP
-Eartha Kitt





There’s also two things about this which people were mindful of for the last four years but are likely going to have a bit of ‘memory hole’ with now…
1: that did not start with the Trump administration. One place where I agree with Herr Stoner here is regarding media bias. They highlighted the practice during that time, now they’ll be silent about it.
2: it will not end with the Biden administration. Not likely, anyhow. You just won’t be hearing about it on the evening news.
Written on the walls at the house of sorrow
You can find the names of those who burned
Greater yet, the pain in little drawings
I could not remain in that room





MANY MEN WANTED TO LAY ME DOWN, BUT FEW WANTED TO LIFT ME UP
-Eartha Kitt










Yes, Obama’s policy was more lenient and he got lucky that it either it didn’t happen or it wasn’t reported. His administration - including the president-elect - built the cages. ICE still separated children from their parents, and will continue to. Maybe Biden will relax the Trump ‘zero tolerance’ policy, but it’ll still happen, and people will remain willfully oblivious to it simply because it’s not a Trump administration it’s happening under, and wearing those blinders will allow people to sleep better at night, assured in their self-righteous belief that having voted for Biden gives them a pass to completely quit giving a shit yet still believe their vote makes them a good person.
Written on the walls at the house of sorrow
You can find the names of those who burned
Greater yet, the pain in little drawings
I could not remain in that room
Eric did say those kids could come stay with him.
But he’d make them sweep leaves n shovel snow lol.
We could go on and on arguing cause and effect. I actually agree with you , in part, that Trump bears some responsibility for SOME of the violence.
However the storming of the Capitol was NOT Trump's idea and appears to have been planned for weeks without any impetus or input from Trump. The violence was actually occurring while Trump was speaking over a mile away. The fruits and nuts who attacked The Capitol did not need Trump's rhetoric to incite them. They were already excited and incited.
What Trump IS responsible for and which btw would have made a solid ground for a genuine good faith impeachment, were his ham fisted attempts to interfere with the Congressional tally of Electoral Votes. And arguably his attempts to pressure Georgia public officials to "find" him votes. Both clear violations of his oath to "preserve ,protect and defend the Constitution... " I also think his holding the rally in the first place had no legitimate purpose , was potentially inflammatory and ran counter to his Presidential Oath.
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Nobody intended those children to die. A few died who were very sick to begin with ALTHOUGH the medical care was not optimal. They could have been released at the border and died anyway. Afaik they were detained because they were trying to pursue claims of asylum and refused to go back to their native countries. Rather than release them, they were held until their claims could be vetted and adjudicated.
Also afaik the children fell into two groups - unaccompanied minors and those who came with their parents. We did not have the facilities to keep the families together. Maybe we should have.
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