What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Well you hardly expected Tucker to work for free did you?

Musk has said Carlson is not being paid by Twitter nor does he have a contract with the company. Carlson has said, "I'm not working for Elon Musk, he hasn't offered to hire me and if he did, I wouldn't accept, what he's done is offered me what he's offered every other user of Twitter which is a chance to broadcast your views without a gatekeeper."

Which BTW, just seems crazy to me,

What is he paying them 'creators' like "Nick Adams (Alpha Male)" with, the money he's to get from investors from his next vaporware startup? Robbing peter to pay Paul? Twitter BTW is another place where a lot of Saudi Money was recently funneled (funny how it's now a hive of rampant fascism and antisemitism)

That's certainly the funny thing, he's wealthy enough he could never work a day in his life Tucker Carlson (Elon too but that's for another thread). But no, I completely understand the motivation to make sure your enterprise is profitable ie. successful and growth-prone. It just seems bananas that you'd consider Twitter the backbone of that. But, he's not trying to appeal to rational people.

TBH Twitter is just the most recent vestige. MAGA etc., Russian and other foreign troll farms took over Facebook then when Facebook stopped treating those users with kids gloves, came Parler and Truth Social etc. and a hostile saudi funded takeover of Twitter. It will be something else next, probably not Threads, but who knows. Given his presence (imaged above post) at LIV etc. we can be sure he is actively wooing foreign money, especially from the Sauds. I wonder if he fancies himself a patriot for 'getting some of that Saudi money for MERICA' while he spouts his messages designed to get people to hate each other so much they go out and start murdering* (making Saudi Arabia a state sponsor of terrorism again). *

This.

"Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, but generated little revenue in the early years." (WSJ 2015)

It's well known Elon is run out of cash of his own accord (being sued by shareholders of SpaceX and Tesla for neglecting those investments too) and it is known he's solicited foreign support from regimes like Saudi Arabia and even China. So Carlson pinning his mast to this platform while it is turning into a MAGA etc. echo chamber in the US/english portion of it, is strange, especially when it is unprofitable, and 'Tucker Carlson doesn't work for free,' (and where does the money come from to pay the content creators), and which investors aren't tapped out except seemingly, eyebrow raisers like China and Saudi Arabia. Not that China nor Saudi Arabia don't have constitutional rights of their own to make legal investments like sportswashing or similarly endorsing barkers like Carlson if they want; I wouldn't be surprised to learn however if there is a lot of money changing hands between the people in the image above, and perhaps the source of a lot of that money was the leaking of, or direct or implied sale of US classified nuclear and defense information by someone pictured center.

They might think that about him, if it wasn't for the very real consequences such as the January 6th attack on the Capitol. At this stage 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' appears to be a more accurate description of the man himself and wingnuts who think he win the election.

Probably there are more ratings and satirists have more material.

If only we could put him in a box like a cross between Truman Show \ West Wing where he thinks he is the President and watch it purely for entertainment value.

What's really peculiar about Trump is that I have seen him in documentaries and retro speakers from the 1980s and early 1990s and he comes across very well as a speaker. It's like a different person.

"Trump derangement syndrome appears to definitely be a thing"

Last roll of the dice before the hammer drops??

In fairness, he hasn’t been arrested in a few weeks.

So we are due.

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Gavin Newsom's California was a sh1t show in comparison.

The same people who were crying out that trump didn't do enough during COVID I bet gave Biden a free pass when deaths were high during Omicron.

Then they will say it was in red states, then you ask why didn't Biden lock the country down at the federal level the same way you wanted federal action taken when Trump was in charge.

Then silence ensues.

Why would we federally lock down when most places outside of those areas that would never consent to be locked down, were all vaccinated by that point?

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