Musk restores Donald Trump’s Twitter account after Online Poll

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  1. Trixare4kids

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    Musk restores Trump's Twitter account after online poll (msn.com)

    According to the AP:

    Musk did the democratic thing and restored the former president's account because a slight majority voted to have him back on Twitter.

    Interesting. I guess I never read these tweets before. He was already banned before I had the chance. Trump's last tweets where he calls for law and order. And now should you want, you are free to follow him or read those tweets.

    Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) / Twitter
     
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    Good on musk! Freedom of speech should prevail and being that Twitter has a large liberal base I would say that the majority of Americans still support free speech.
     
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    The aforementioned tweets... Trump's last two before he was banned by the leftist speech Nazis
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    Trump in frenzy to get back on...
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    Trixare4kids Well-Known Member

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    That's not true.
     
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    Funny how you cut out the one of him trashing Pence while Pence was under attack by his cultists, but I wouldn't expect any less from someone who blatantly slings intellectually dishonest "Nazi" accusations. I'm glad those two milquetoast tweets (that even his own family admitted wasn't enough) give you the warm and fuzzies. Though I am sorry you are so opposed to private property rights. Meanwhile, Musk has no risk here. Trump won't actually Tweet anymore anyway, so he satisfies the Trump worshippers while not incurring any new risks.
     
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    Trump's freedom of speech was never under attack. His right to express his opinion does not obligate anyone else to publish it. Your right to say what you want does not entitle you to the use of someone else's bullhorn. And every platform, without exception, has terms of use. That isn't an attack on anyone's freedom of speech any more than THIS forum's terms of use are an attack on freedom of speech.
     
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    If you want the Pence tweets on the thread, post them.

    The rest of your post is just over the top juvenile derailment, a weak attempt to make the thread personally about me. I think I'll take a pass, but no thank you. :)
     
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    I'm not responsible for your lack of interest in the facts. However, if you still think that a private platform exercising it's own free speech rights is "Nazi," I'm happy to recommend you a history book or two.
     
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    Former President Trump will not return to Twitter, even as Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, instead using his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.
    ""I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH," Trump told Fox News. "I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.", I am going to stay on TRUTH," Trump told Fox News.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...es-platform-will-begin-using-his-truth-social

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    Does anybody really expect Trump to keep his "promise" and stay off of Twitter?
    Or, will this be just another in the long list of Trump's ridiculous rantings?

    (Like "Mexico will pay for the Wall", Etc...)
    Personally, I expect Trump to go rushing back to Twitter Quicker than a Greased Pig with Their Hair on Fire.
    Does anybody actually expect Trump to "keep his word" on this?
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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-20/elon-musk-to-reinstate-donald-trump-twitter/101675906

    Actually that is only a slim majority and huge proportion fewer than the 88 million he had at the peak.
     
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    Kind of funny. You can kill Truth Social if Trump returns
     
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    You mean “hasten it’s death”
     
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    He may have signed an exclusivity agreement at this point, particularly back when he thought returning to Twitter wouldn't be an option. Not that he'd let a silly thing like the law get in the way.
     
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    Lmaooooo. Excellent job Musk. If liberals don’t like it, they can leave.
     
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    I can picture Trump right now, in the War Room with Steven "Goebbels" Miller...
    Plotting his return to Twitter...
    Gotta comeback with the most Moronic, Idiotic, Tinfoil Hat BS of All Time...
    About how AZ and NV and PA were "stolen", etc...
    And, mindless sycophants like Boebert and Greene kissing his ass...
    Gonna be great comedy when that Braindead Clown starts contaminating Twitter with his Mindless Brain Diarrhea...
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    Lots of projection for Dems leadership there.
     
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    Remember when many from the left said Twitter has the right to do what they want? Well, Musk did just that, and look at them cry. :rage: :rant::-(
     
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    It’s a super interesting conundrum for trump — lie for the millionth time, rejoin twitter and simultaneously shutter his own platform that is already struggling or stay on truth social and not be able to obtain the same level of audience

    I voted for him to return, not only does it future destroy the money his magagapatriots have given him but it allows the entire nation to see his unhinged rants.

    The best thing we can do with the people is allow them to speak and expose both themselves and their supporters
     
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    yes, don't forget the deleted ones
     
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    Musk should restore all his deleted tweets
     
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    most already left, that is why the poll was as it is
     
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    they still do, nothing has changed.... Musk owns twitter, he can do what ever he wants.... don't mean people have to agree with it, you guys were free to cry all you wanted too and you did, but it was not a free speech issue, never was

    his employees are free to quit too, and many have

    unlike the right, we do not think you have a free speech right to force another to repeat your speech forever on their servers - and looks like the right never believed that either, not really
     
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    That’s not what’s being reported, as of now it’s just “we are leaving” lol while posting still.

    That being said, I’d be happy to see them go.

    Free speech is back.
     
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    even his employees are leaving

    wonder if he will outsource jobs overseas
     

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