Trump Threatens To Lock Up Mark Zuckerberg
The Zuck never thought that leopard would eat HIS face!
Former president Donald Trump is not shy about having an Arya Stark list of names of people on whom he plans to exact revenge if he ever gets his stumpy fingers on the presidency again. And pasty-faced hog-huntin’ billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is on it! Twoofed the owner of a rival, failing platform on Tuesday:
“All I can say is that if I’m elected President, we will pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time. We already know who you are. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!”
With all the freaky shit in Project 2025 and Trump’s Agenda 47, it’s perhaps been a little overlooked that both plans call for Trump taking complete control of the FCC and FTC, which will effectively let Trump ban any platform on the Internet that lets people be mean to him. Facebook is clearly first on the list, and Wonkette is probably second. Trump has called Facebook the Enemy of The People, which briefly tanked its stock, and reversed his endorsement of a TikTok ban, claiming that a ban would give Facebook even more reach.
Why’s he trying to chuck the Zuck? Facebook still allows ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen. But apparently Trump is super mad about being kicked off the platform for two years after January 6, though he was allowed back in 2023. And he’s extra super mad that in 2020 Zuckerberg and his wife donated $400 million to help fund election offices, going against the GOP priority of breaking them. And he’s mega-wet-hen-pig-biting-yabba-dabba-doo mad that Facebook’s audience is massive and still growing. Even though you might not know many people who use it any more. Facebook had three billion daily users as of May 2024, and Trump’s Truth Social had … 76,463 — or about two Wonkettes worth (our traffic’s down). So if Trump wants disinformation, he can’t spread his own, artisanally, and instead is beholden to Elmo, the Zuck, bot farms and white supremacist yeehaws on TikTok and YouTubes to do it for him.
Mark Zuckerberg never thought that a certain leopard would eat his face. He’s been happy to profit from election denialism, vaccine denialism, pizzagate, chemtrails, and “mommy” Facebook groups that urge parents to make Autistic kids drink bleach. Scary stuff, when about 43 percent of adults in the US say that they “regularly” turn to Facebook for news.
Many People Have Said that Facebook disinformation is exactly what got Trump elected in 2016 in the very first place! Short version, Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million users’ personal data from Facebook to serve them up targeted political ads, many from Russia. Facebook’s News Feed feature puts users in information echo chambers, radicalizing them and leading them to inflammatory content that rustled their jimmies, which Facebook calls “engagement.” Just six Facebook pages from a Russian troll farm in St. Petersburg had posts that were shared 340 million times. The Russians are отличный at engagement!
But Trump’s gratitude at the Zuckerbot sure was short-lived, and the Zuckster is still not deeply enough in the bag to pass the right-wing purity test anyway. Welp, let that be a lesson to you, Trump-enablers!
Just a note to point out if Biden publicly said he was going to throw Zuckerberg in jail, the media would treat it as further evidence of his mental decline.
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 '𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤' 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎𝐬
In a lengthy House floor speech on Thursday, Grothman claimed feminists and former President Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" had removed men from families.
"Another effect that I don't know was necessarily anticipated by Lyndon Johnson is they kind of took the purpose out of the man's life," the lawmaker said. "Because now you have a basket of goodies for the mom."
"They've taken away the purpose of the man to be part of a family," he continued. "And if we want to get America back to, say, 1960, where this was almost unheard of, we have to fundamentally change these programs."
Grothman argued that "the breakdown of the family" was caused by the government and "people like Angela Davis, well-known communist, people like the feminists who were so important in the 1960s."
"So, I hope the press corps picks up on this, and I hope Republican and Democrat leadership put together some sort of plan for January, in which we work our way back to where America was in the 1960s," he added.
https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-grothman-1960s/
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That this is even a close race---or that this party is even viable---just shows how broken this whole experiment is.