The Donald vs Big Tech

[astfgyl]

I see Trump came through the pointless show trial unscathed. Looking at a bit of a recap and the democrats made a show of themselves. They should have left it off when he was gone.

[Kunt 4 Life]

"he's totally guilty but I'll just vote not guilty here"

[Ollkiller]

"he's totally guilty but I'll just vote not guilty here"

Good old Mitch. Im voting no as you cant impeach a president when hes out of office and thats because I stalled the impeachment until he was out of office. Couldnt make it up. But he threw Trump under the bus with his comments straight afterwards. Hes trying to make sure he has no collateral to run in 2024. Trump will still try to run.

[hellfire]

After four years of Bidens liberalism he would have a good chance at winning. Don't think the party will run him again though. He dropped the ball massively on corona virus and his post election tantrums were highly embarrassing. People forget that it wasn't as much about Trump himself as it was people getting sick to their teeth of woke culture.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Facebook.... strewth!

https://www.thejournal.ie/facebook-block-australian-news-5357776-Feb2021/?section=comment#comments

[hellfire]

From what I heard there was some dodgy dealings on behalf of the Aussie government. Still, the bare arse cheek of these companies telling countries what to do. I hope their strong arming bites them back and puts a nice dent in their revenue.

[pete]

From what I heard there was some dodgy dealings on behalf of the Aussie government. Still, the bare arse cheek of these companies telling countries what to do. I hope their strong arming bites them back and puts a nice dent in their revenue.

By companies here do you mean the news companies?

Am I correct in that it is the news companies(murdochs newscorp) have got the government to tell Facebook you must pay the news companies and Facebook have said fine we won't circulate the content from these news companies?

[hellfire]

More or less correct.  Not entirely sure I agree with the Australian government. Still I relish every time these massive companies are brought into line.

[The Demiurge]

I see Trump came through the pointless show trial unscathed. Looking at a bit of a recap and the democrats made a show of themselves. They should have left it off when he was gone.

Just a bit of light treason - totally pointless alright 

[astfgyl]

I see Trump came through the pointless show trial unscathed. Looking at a bit of a recap and the democrats made a show of themselves. They should have left it off when he was gone.

Just a bit of light treason - totally pointless alright 

Did you watch any of the evidence presented by his defence team? Basically if he incited anything that amounted to treason, most of the Democrats were guilty of the same thing. They were caught doctoring evidence and using quotes taken out of context, and were schooled by the defence. They even used that stupid quote about white supremacists being fine people that has long since been shown to be a load of bollix.

Trump being a good guy or not doesn't even come into it with a shitty attempt at a show trial like that. If they were going to impeach him then they should have had evidence.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

His repeated baseless claim that the election had been stolen was actually evidence enough, objectively.

[astfgyl]

I don't think just saying that is enough for impeachment though. Or certainly doesn't qualify as treason anyway. Doesn't mean it's the finest to say either.

[pete]

I don't think just saying that is enough for impeachment though. Or certainly doesn't qualify as treason anyway. Doesn't mean it's the finest to say either.

Well that with other evidence was enough to impeach him for a second time.

[astfgyl]

Enough to find him not guilty you mean?

I'm not even really defending him here, his words and actions leave a lot to be desired to say the least but the hypocrisy of the Democrats is astounding and anyone supporting one over the other is ignoring the evidence of their eyes and ears.

[Ollkiller]

Two ways of looking at it. It was never going to succeed but down the line could be a way to hammer the republicans who voted no to impeach. Especially if El Trumpo gets caught up in a few court cases. The ones that follow him though seem to give him a pass on anything he does. I suppose owning the libs, whatever the fuck that is, is what drives them.