The question resonates today almost as
forcefully as it did last year: Why did former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey perform
a very convincing impersonation of Big Brother by sending a sitting president
packing to Big Tech’s memory hole? That devious move went deeper than mere
hatred of the feared Orange Man, deeper than that digital cesspool known as
Silicon Valley; Dorsey’s deplorable decision spoke to the threat that still
hovers over Trump’s cult of pugnacity, at least on social media sites where,
for four hellacious years, he was the main event, day and night.
If Trump were still the master of his
Twitter account, he’d be like a post-modern civil-war general – something like
Ulysses S. Grant with orange hair – rallying his populist forces while
lampooning the other side over its exquisite leadership skills. Let’s face it,
while few people expected any miracles from the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris
administration, a consortium that banked on the false promise of equity and
quotas over hard-earned merit, few could have predicted the raging dumpster
fire it has become. Just one year into the Biden clown show, there are more
reported sightings of UFOs than silver linings.
In the last 12 months, inflation in the United States has barreled ahead at seven percent, a surge not witnessed since 1982. Most Americans probably wouldn’t mind spending a bit more at the checkout counter if there was something to buy, but therein lies another problem. Across the nation, shoppers are reporting something not seen since at least the Depression-era – empty store shelves. No matter how bad things got before with the US economy, Americans could pretty much take it for granted that the corporate-owned cornucopia would continue providing them with an uninterrupted flow of goods and services.
Now, with
dozens of cargo ships stuck out at sea amid a severe labor shortage, the good
times have taken a backseat to uncertainty, at least for now. Trump the
inveterate businessman, whose central focus was the performance of the US
economy, would be leading a headlong charge against #BareShelvesBiden,
a viral Twitter hashtag that lays the blame for the shortages directly at the
doorstep of the Biden White House.
The
complaints against Biden don’t stop at a battered economy; they also lead
directly to the doors of the schoolhouse. Once upon a time, parents could send
their children off to school each morning knowing they’d be receiving a
wholesome education from teachers who shared the same values as they did. Yet,
thanks to the rise of woke ideology, promoted by the radical progressive
faction of the Democratic Party, children are now being exposed to everything
from transgender ideology to critical race theory.
These
totally un-American ‘Cultural Marxist’ teachings have led to an epic showdown
between parents and local school boards rarely seen before. Here is where
Trump, who immediately reversed Barack Obama’s controversial ‘toilet law,’ which allowed transgender women to share
bathrooms with biological women, would have been launching endless Twitter
tirades against the Democrats over such controversial policies.
The matter, however, is not just a question about what is being taught to US schoolchildren, problematic as that has become. The issue has come down to whether or not parents should have a say in what crazy ideas are being forced into their children’s soft skulls. Incredibly, not only do school boards think the answer to that question is ‘no,’ the National School Board Association filed a petition against parents, going so far as to rank them as potential “domestic terrorists.” These shocking claims prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to direct the FBI to investigate parents for alleged threats against school-board members. Again, Trump would have gone ballistic on Twitter over these chilling diktats, which essentially view parents as some sort of fundamentalist offshoot of al-Qaeda.
Another reason the Democrats must be
relieved that Trump was deprived of his Twitter privileges is that it saves the
White House from having to explain the anomaly of Biden’s comparatively low
follower count. This is something that the number crunchers have never been
able to quite square: Biden, who received more votes than any other previous
candidate in a US presidential election (even more than Barack Obama, who
has 130.5 million Twitter followers), somehow had significantly fewer followers
on Twitter than his populist challenger, Donald Trump.
At the time of his suspension from Twitter
on January 8, 2021, Trump had 88.9
million followers; at the time of this writing, Joe Biden has
just 16.8 million followers
on his POTUS account and 32 million on his personal one. That does not compute.
Meanwhile, the same muted enthusiasm for
the 79-year-old Commander-in-Chief, painfully conspicuous on the campaign trail
where Biden spent the majority of time in his basement, was also apparent on
YouTube – that is, until the Google-owned channel played defense for the
president’s social media team by disengaging the ‘thumbs down’ button.
Historically, there has always been a need for someone, much like the court jester in medieval times, to call out the deficiencies of the Commander-in-Chief, especially considering that this guy is required to carry around a nuclear briefcase while playing 5D chess against the likes of Russia and China, among other pressing duties.
As much as he annoys us, who better than
Trump to pronounce over Twitter that the emperor has seemingly lost his
marbles? Let’s not forget that there is a leader who has referred to his vice president, Kamala Harris,
as “President Harris” on more than one occasion. Trump, the
ultimate troll, would certainly have had some choice words for those slips on
the mental banana peel.
Finally, had Twitter resisted the
temptation of playing God, the US mainstream media, particularly CNN, would not
be in the hole that it now finds itself in. By silencing Trump, Twitter stole
the mainstream media’s goose that lays the golden eggs. Now, CNN, like other
mainstream media outlets, has not only tanked with its viewers, it now finds
itself in the headlines. That is something no news agency desires.
The lesson to be learned here – if the
masters of the universe are taking notes – is that all efforts to destroy
freedom of speech will always backfire sooner or later. Not only did Twitter
deprive itself of the huge number of customers that Donald Trump brought to its
platform free of charge, but it also left a vacuum for the news agencies who built much
of their empires square on the back of the Republican rabble-rouser.
And now what does Trump plan to do with all that spare time that Twitter gave him? He aims to ‘Build Back Better,’ to borrow a term, with his own social media network, which has all the potential to bury Big Tech in the dust. All things considered, Twitter should have kept Trump chained to the reservation and just let the political chips fall where they may. But because Twitter, like the rest of Big Tech, is more of a political activist than a legitimate business, it couldn’t resist. Now a veritable monster has been unleashed; if it consumes them in the process they’ll all get what they’ve had coming for a long time.
Written by :
Robert Bridge is an American writer and
journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight
in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political
Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
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