Exactly. Trump will NEVER stop yammering about how the election was "stolen" from him (as I've said numerous times, his ego won't allow him to admit he lost), so he'll keep on screaming bloody murder, thus forcing Zuckerberg's hand and keeping the ban in place. If Trump gets his account back, he'll instigate another 1/6 riot. Count on that!
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Trump can instigate another riot as it is on his blog.
Not saying that Facebook should bring him back or anything, they shouldn't but it's probably not a good idea for us to depend on Zuck or his company to do what the GOP and the justice system seem unable to do.
Considering your normal take, is this another instance of demanding we stop caring about how Republicans are trying to destroy the foundation of the country when there are Democrats to rail against for not being perfect?
For anyone who may actually take your schtick seriously, the answer is because there are still millions of people who honestly believe that the Republican party is a conservative organization rather than a reactionary one, and the public needs to be reminded of that often if only to counter the lies that they are anything else.
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Republicans weigh in on Liz Cheney and direction of GOP — CBS News poll
So according to the CBS poll, 80% of Republicans approve of her removal.
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And here is a comparison from the historical archives
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The thing with Liz Cheney is that she doesn't really want anything to change for the Republican Party in any substantive way. She's just afraid that keeping Trump as their figurehead will doom their chances in the next Presidential election. Remember, she voted for Trump. Twice. If he had legitimately won, she would still be supporting him.
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Devin Nunes Goes Full Psycho On Fox And Claims The US Funded COVID 19 Creation
Nunes said on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures:
You played the comment of Senator Cotton from a year ago- here we are and we don’t have answers. If you look at the evidence it’s pretty clear that there wasn’t some guy in wet market that ate a bat. It likely didn’t come from there. There’s zero evidence of that but there’s building circumstantial evidence that, indeed, this did come from a lab and money flowed from the U.S. Government through nonprofits that was actually supporting this type of research that was going on in China. And, look, why is this important?
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Interesting media piece in the New York Times about how intelligent generally polite and informed members of a group of former Jeopardy contestants came to believe an insane conspiracy theory about one recent winner, and stick to it, even if it's been proven false.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/b...?smid=tw-share
Mr. Donohue’s turn over the barrel is hardly a new story. In America, everyone gets to be the main character for 15 minutes. I often hesitate to write about these stories because each is about something different: about deep injustice being brought to light, or an innocent person harassed by trolls, or a random person’s minor sin. Often, the argument is really about keeping things in proportion.
But the “Jeopardy!” story is a remarkable case study for a couple of reasons. First, the participants represent a particular kind of American achievement — the mastery of facts and trivia, celebrated by one of America’s few universally beloved institutions. A turn on “Jeopardy!” is the best credential there is in America. (When my brother, Emlen, lost valiantly in 2017, it generated more familial excitement than his Ph.D.) And I would say, after talking to a couple of dozen former contestants last week, that they are not just smart people but basically nice and sincere ones, too, from diverse backgrounds all over the country, united only by their ability to recall Madonna lyrics and capital cities.
And second, Snopes is right. Mr. Donohue’s case is unusually clear-cut, and the allegation is obviously false.
So the element of this story that interests me most is how the beating heart of nerdy, liberal fact-mastery can pump blood into wild social media conspiracy, and send all these smart people down the sort of rabbit hole that leads other groups of Americans to believe that children are being transported inside refrigerators. And, I wanted to know, how they could remain committed to that point of view in the absence of any solid evidence.
Mr. Donohue’s three fingers, Snopes pointed out, symbolize the number “three.” After his first victory, he waved one finger. After his second victory, he raised two. And after his third, he showed three fingers. He awkwardly folded his index and forefingers into something that looks as if it could be some kind of sign, but doesn’t resemble the “OK” signal that white supremacists have sought to appropriate.
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