All Things Trump: the story continues...

[JimC]

I had an idea that ex-presidents are entitled to use the title "President"?

[L'Emmerdeur]

The schadenfreude is strong in me as I read this story...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-05/ ... l/13124300

A voting technology company is suing Fox News and three of its hosts, as well as two former lawyers for former president Donald Trump, claiming the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped "steal" the 2020 US presidential election.

The $US2.7 billion ($3.55 billion) lawsuit filed in New York state court by Florida-based Smartmatic USA is one of the largest libel suits ever undertaken.

On January 25, a rival election-technology company — Dominion Voting Systems, which was also ensnared in Mr Trump's baseless effort to overturn the election — sued former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for $US1.3 billion ($1.71 billion).

Unlike Dominion, whose technology was used in 24 states, Smartmatic's participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County, which votes heavily Democratic.

Despite the company's limited role in the election, US cable news network Fox News aired at least 13 reports falsely stating or implying the company had stolen the 2020 vote in partnership with Venezuela's socialist Government, according to the complaint.

Sue them till they're broke!

The first page of the suit (image is a link to the full PDF):

[L'Emmerdeur]

I had an idea that ex-presidents are entitled to use the title "President"?

The official position of the government is that the title used for former presidents is 'the Honorable.' Still, you are correct that over the years it has become the custom to use the title for former presidents. However, it's generally used by those addressing said former president, rather than the former president insisting on continuing to use the title. I saw a report that Trump has forbidden anybody in his orbit to refer to him as 'ex' or 'former' president. In the response from his impeachment lawyers, neither term is used. Instead, they refer to him as 'the 45th president.'

[Tero]

Trump reading Twitter and scribbling notes on what he would tweet:

Former President Donald Trump is so frustrated by being barred from Twitter that he's writing down insults and trying to get aides to post those messages from their own accounts, The Daily Beast reported this week.

Sources close to Trump told the publication that he saw the political fate of Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-most-powerful Republican in Congress, as key to his hold over the GOP.

Cheney was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol riot on January 6.

Trump was deprived of his most important tool for rallying supporters and attacking opponents when Twitter permanently suspended him from its platform in the wake of the insurrection.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-s ... ort-2021-2

[JimC]

The pain of Twitter withdrawal couldn't happen to a nicer bloke...

[Hermit]

[ourmemberfromyellowknife]Censorship[/ourmemberfromyellowknife]

[rainbow]

How Twitter Hacks the Brain

From a psychological standpoint, Twitter taps into our natural reward-based learning processes: trigger, behavior, reward. (For more information about this, see my TED talk.) We have an idea or think of something funny (trigger), tweet it out (behavior), and receive likes and retweets (reward). This learning process causes a dopamine rush in reward centers of the brain, the Nucleus Accumbens.

The more we do this, the more this behavior gets reinforced. Based on the evolutionary adaptive survival process that helps us remember where food is, our brains are now learning a new habit loop of survival: we can even track our own “relevance” by the number of impressions, tweets, and followers we have.
Jud Brewer 2016

The pain of Twitter withdrawal couldn't happen to a nicer bloke...

https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/d ... k=Xb6W3mnZ

[Brian Peacock]

How Twitter Hacks the Brian.

[Tero]

[Tero]

If the Trump impeachment were an actual court case, the constitutionality would not become an issue. The house served thepapers to the senate while Trump was still president.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump- ... to-expect/

[Tero]

Trump to go on revenge tour:
Mr Trump's tour would reportedly focus on the ten House Republicans who voted for his impeachment, with one of the possible targets being Anthony Gonzalez, who represents a district outside Cleveland, Ohio, a district which Mr Trump won with 57 per cent of the vote in 2020. Mr Gonzalez himself fared a little bit better, getting 63 per cent of the vote in his first reelection bid.

While stewing in Florida, one of Mr Trump's most high profile antagonists of late, House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney who voted to impeach him, won the support of 145 of her colleagues to stay in the position, with only 61 members voting to remove her after the wing of the party most loyal to Mr Trump forced a vote on whether she was to stay in the position, thinking they had the votes to remove her.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 98179.html

[L'Emmerdeur]

The failure of those goons (Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, et al.) to effectively whip the vote and their misplaced confidence that they had got sufficient votes show that their aspirations to lead the Republican caucus are premature at best. Still I'd say they definitely could get into leadership of the caucus despite their ineptitude.

[JimC]

Still I'd say they definitely could get into leadership of the caucus despite their ineptitude.

Excellent!

[Tero]

Trump not Jesus but almost:

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/stat ... 4125973506

[Tero]

The reason why QAnon supporters place so much importance on March 4 is rooted in the bizarre beliefs of the 'sovereign citizen movement.'

It believes that Americans are not subject to a variety of federal laws. The basis for this is that a law, enacted in 1871, secretly turned the US into a corporation rather than a nation.