Here is the future of the Republican Party.
I wasn’t talking about him.
I don’t know if MTG will actually be on the Republican Party presidential ticket in 2024, but if I can find a betting site that will give me odds on it, I might put down a few bucks. She is “national conservatism” distilled to its very essence, and her Twitter ban might end up making her even more powerful, as these things usually do. (In retrospect, kicking Trump off the major social media platforms - which means the crazy shit he says isn’t getting nearly as much attention - might be the best thing that ever happened to him.)
And now Peter Thiel’s Ivy League educated, bestselling author golden boy candidate has sought and won this first-time rural Georgia Congresswoman’s endorsement. They know the party base.
Why would any MAGA believer settle for the ordinary stuff when the 99% pure, highly potent stuff1 is available?
Even if she doesn’t run for President, or if she tries but the campaign doesn’t really take off, she is going to be a Kingmaker. Or make that Queenmaker, with an emphasis on the “Q.”
On a similar note, I saw this story about Donald Trump’s upcoming Twitter clone, the hilariously named TRUTH Social, hiring an AI company to help it moderate its content. And it has me wondering, aside from presumably having Trump himself on it, what exactly is the point of this site again?
When TRUTH Social launches later this quarter, the Trump Media & Technology Group social media platform will already have stringent content moderation practices in place to ensure it is a "family-friendly" online community, company CEO Devin Nunes told Fox Business.
Both Nunes and former President Donald Trump separately have told Fox Business that TRUTH Social is expected to be up and running by the end of the first quarter of 2022. Nunes told Fox Business that the company is on track.
But those involved in the final stages of the platform’s development told Fox Business that they anticipate that malign actors will target the site and attempt to "flood" the platform with "illegal content," especially during and immediately after their formal launch.
Fox Business has learned that TMTG is partnering with Hive—a San Francisco-based Series D start-up that provides automated solutions through cloud-based artificial intelligence for understanding images, videos, and text content. Hive’s technology provides automated content moderation across video, image, text and audio.
"We want to be very family-friendly, we want this to be a very safe place, and we are focused on making sure any illegal content is not on the site," Nunes said in an exclusive interview with Fox Business.
So, this new social media platform, conceived as a refuge from Big Tech censorship, is relying on…Big Tech censorship. And the same applies for other notable “alt-tech” sites like Gettr and Parler. (Is Parler even still a thing? That seems like the one that really got left behind.)
The right-wing pseudo-Twitter site I’d bet on having staying power is the least moderated, most unrepentantly hateful cesspool:
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