We know that Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump loves to tweet. It turns out that he has a posse of Twitter buddies who support and magnify his messages.
You can read about them here.
They are Trump’s Twitterverse.
Sid Miller’s tweet about Hillary Clinton may have been a mistake, but he’s found a place in Trump’s Twitterverse.
Miller has the most successful social media operation of any statewide elected official.
At 1:43 a.m. Tuesday, more than 12 hours before a tweet from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s Twitter account referred to Hillary Clinton using a sexually explicit, derogatory term for women, Miller, or whoever was tweeting on his behalf at that hour in the morning, tweeted a question — “Can we bring Milo back?!?”
Milo is Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart senior editor who Twitter in July banned for life for directing his vast army of 300,000 Twitter followers to bombard “Saturday Night Live’s” Leslie Jones with racist tweets for her starring role in the “Ghostbusters” movie remake.
Miller’s middle-of-the night Twitter query was directed at four other cult figures, like Yiannopoulos with large social media followings at the alt-right edge of the Donald Trump political orbit.
There is Ricky Vaughn, who commonly uses the vulgarism for Clinton, and it appears might have been the source for Miller’s offensive tweet, which was quickly taken down.
There is RooshV, a renowned “pick-up artist” who on Oct. 17 wrote that women should confine themselves to reproductive sex, child rearing and homemaking, and who has warned that if Clinton is elected, a heterosexual male will never again serve as president.
There is Mike Cernovich, the man The New Yorker in its Oct. 31 issue profiles as the “meme mastermind of the alt-right,” who, on his “Danger and Play” blog, developed a theory of white male identity that posits that “men were oppressed by feminism, and political correctness prevented the discussion of obvious truths, such as the criminal proclivities of certain ethnic groups.”
And there is Jack Posobiec, special projects director of Citizens4Trump, who maintains that the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump talking about his predatory behavior with women was part of an attempted coup against Trump by House Speaker Paul Ryan and his GOP allies.
Speaking for Miller, Todd Smith, his longtime political adviser, said Wednesday that Miller had quickly and properly apologized for the appearance of the obscene word in a tweet reporting poll results from Pennsylvania, and that this Twitter contact with these provocative figures was simply in keeping with Miller’s new stature as a major player among Trump’s supporters.
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Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller in his 11th floor office in the Stephen F. Austin state building on North Congress Avenue. … R
“Sid Miller is sort of front and center of the Trump campaign communications effort over the last week,” Smith said. “He was mentioned at least four different times by Donald Trump in campaign rallies across the United States, so it been natural for him to communicate with other very well known Trump supporters.”
Miller is a member of Trump’s agricultural advisory committee and recently appeared on Fox News speaking in support of Trump.
Of Yiannopoulos, who is on a college speaking tour that launched at Texas Tech University in mid-September, Smith said, “Milo is a writer with Breitbart, a recognized news source,” and that he believes his banishment is “because of his Trump positions.”
“Sid Miller does not believe that people should be banned for their beliefs,” Smith said. “He believes in the First Amendment.”
It appears that Miller’s digital team picked up the offending language from a tweet that originated with @TheRickyVaughn, whose tweets in recent days have focused on spreading the rumor that independent Republican candidate Evan McMullin, who is threatening to deny Trump Utah’s electoral votes, is secretly gay and instructing “how to bullycide” his supporters to abandon him.
RooshV is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies extremist groups, Roosh Vörek — “a Maryland-raised PUA (“pick up artist”) whose specialty is sex with foreign women; his blog is a sales vehicle for his books like ‘Bang: The Pick Up Bible’ and ‘Bang Iceland: How to Sleep With Icelandic Women in Iceland,’ which one Icelandic feminist group described as a `rape guide.’”
Amid the controversy over the Access Hollywood tape, RooshV tweeted, “It’s a (((clever))) trick: create the rape culture that makes every man a `rapist”’ and then use it against non-establishment candidates.” (The extra parentheses are used by the alt-right to suggest Jewish influence.)
“If Trump loses this election, no heterosexual man will ever be President of the United States again. They’ll all be labeled a rapist,” he tweeted.
In his recent essay on women’s roles, RooshV, wrote, “a woman who is engaging in sex with a multitude of partners without any concern for reproduction, and who has less interest in child rearing than in surrogate activities like working in an office, dancing in nightclubs, or playing trivia games on her electronic device, and who is unwilling or unable to make a home comfortable for her family is going against her purpose. This may remind you of women you know.”
In its Cernovich profile, The New Yorker writes that nowadays, the Southern Californian’s “blog is mostly a platform for pro-Trump spin, but at first it was about how to pick up women.”
His self-published 2015 book, “Gorilla Mindset,” was a guide for how men could “unleash the animal” within them. He has just written another book about finding fulfillment in Trump.
Miller is no slacker in the social media arts.
“He has more people engaged on a daily basis than any other statewide official by a gargantuan margin,” Smith said. His Facebook page just passed 290,000 likes.
Smith said he understands why people were outraged by Tuesday’s tweet.
“I understand why people were outraged, and Commissioner Miller was outraged that a tweet came out on his account with that word,” Smith said. “He publicity said so and apologized and pulled it down.”
But, he said, enough is enough.
“We’re six days out from the most important election in our lifetime, the future of our nation is being decided for the next 40 years,” said Smith, and from now to then, Miller will be doing everything he can to work with allies of Trump to see that he is elected, and not go picking through their tweets for points of difference.
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“Sid Miller does not believe that people should be banned for their beliefs,” Smith said. “He believes in the First Amendment.”
It’s obvious that Miller doesn’t know that the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to the private sector and Twitter is a private sector company, not the govenrment. The entire private sector is free to censor anyone it wants on their social media sites and even at work. In the private sector workers that defy their boss by speaking what they think, can be fired.
That’s why the U.S. once had what’s called the Fairness Doctrine that survived U.S. Supreme Court challenges but was vetoed by President Reason, and the 1st President Bush made sure the Fairness Doctrine stayed dead.
With the Fairness Doctrine in place, it was almost impossible for the Alt-Right and fundamentalist evangelical Christians to gain political traction/power in the U.S.
The Fairness Doctrine made it difficult to impossible for serial lying, biased, racist, fascist, frauds to use the media as a propaganda machine without any fear of being challenged. Once the Fairness Doctrine was gone, the Alt-Right hate media machine exploded and grew like a terminal, pancreatic stage 4 cancer. The end of the Fairness Doctrine made hat-insult filled talking heads like Rush Limbagh a multi millionaire.
If you want to discover the foundation or Donald Trump’s lying, misinformation run for president look no further than the end of the Fairness Doctrine when balance in the media was banished.
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Not President Reason, President Reagan. Curse that auto-spell fix.
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DISGUSTING. And Trump is running for President? OY! The USA has had terrible people in charge for the past 36 years.
The USA is ONE SICK country. GREED and MEANNESS abounds in ALL areas and this sickness (made in the USA) is taking us all down. So SAD.
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If anyone is interested I just posted this on facebook.
Firmly believing that when true friends amicably discuss their differences both sides can learn something I submit the following. Each of you will have your own criteria for selecting the next president. Following are questions I asked myself.
Firmly believing in the efficacy of Jesus’ teachings do I trust one who believes in doing unto others …, returning good for evil, etc or who builds walls rather than bridges? One who emulates the Good Samaritan and binds up the wounds of a despised ethnic person or one who foments intolerance to those of different genders, ethnicities, religions? One who first seeks diplomatic solutions or one who first will “bomb the hell” out of perceived enemies? One who builds foundations to help others or one who refuses to pay others for work well done? One who seeks unity or one who sews divisiveness? One who protects essentials for life; clean water, air etc, protects workers rights for safe environments, equal pay etc or one who gets rid of the EPA and troublesome government oversight. Etc etc.
Can a businessman be considered successful when he/she loses so much money they pay no federal income tax for something like 18 years? How likely is it that such a businessman would lead us into economic prosperity? If such a great head for business why not validate this by making tax returns available for viewing?
Some people have stated that their most basic question on which to vote is the abortion issue. Does it make sense to disallow abortion and then have the babies saved face a planet which is not viable for them in which to live?
Thus is climate change real or a hoax? Do I believe 98% of the world’s best scientists who have devoted their professional life to studying the problem or the oil CEOs who make millions and who have had their own scientists tell them that climate change is real but still say it is a hoax? What has each candidate stated as their view?
People excoriate Hillary as a liar. Independent fact checkers have come up with statistical data including the following.
True statements: Hillary at 71%; Trump at 7%. Pants on fire lies: Hillary at 14%; Trump at 56%. Should I believe what these independent scholars say?
The next president will be in charge of our nuclear arsenal. Which candidate is the most thin skinned, most likely to initiate a scenario which could well lead to WWIII in which the planet’s life sustaining entities would likely be decimated? I take into consideration the fact that the military rushed into JFKs office and wanted him to immediately launch an attack on Russia. Radar had indicated that their missiles had just been launched against us. Kennedy said wait. About 5 minutes later it was determined it had been a false reading. If one of our two presidential candidates had a similar scenario which one would most likely launch our atomic warheads?
Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck are two of the most conservative writers I know and but will not vote for Trump. Why not? Along with them are Bill Kristol and over 20 other conservative writers. Important?
These are a partial list of questions of concern to me. Again, you will have your own criteria and will vote accordingly.
May I add that I am no great fan of Hillary. There are MANY issues I have with her but the preceding questions are some which I find most worthy of consideration in casting my vote.
Addendum: Whoever wins the election on Tuesday if you wish YOUR views to be heard you absolutely must make them known to the politicians in power. Educate yourself first as to why you believe what you do. Look at the many sides of the issue in question and then act by writing or calling. Democracy can only function if enough people do.
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