Meta's Change of Course

Well said, Jeff.

@porwest Yeah, the Zucher better play nice or the bully may just turn on him.

Very true. I pointed out to our buddy Greg from Wapella (which is somewhere between Mars and LaLa Land) that CEOs have largely resigned themselves to Trump. Their loyalties are to the businesses they own and the money they generate, and when the president is someone who happens to have influence on things like regulations, laws and taxes... You don't really want to make too much noise against them. In the case of Zuckerberg, he's a fish Trump might want to fry. Sites like Facebook and X have long wanted to remain outside of "news organization" status, which would GREATLY take away their control over content, since they would then have to abide by the 1st Amendment. Zucky doesn't want to give up that control, and he figures, MAYBE if he plays nice with Trump, he might look for a different fish to toss into the frying pan. Zucky may be a tool, but he's not a dull one in the shed in which he resides.

It's over, Greg. Why not just face the facts? You always say our side is locked in. But I think its the other way around. I have never seen an HONEST response from you at all. EVER. It's why I mostly just play along with you. It's entertainment. I never consider anything to be a serious exchange.

@porwest I read a headline that said that Trump said he is lucky to be alive and that he praised the secret service. Did he really praise the secret service? They should've apprehended the shooter as soon as they saw him instead of waiting till he fired shots at Trump to do something about it.

I read a headline that said that Trump said he is lucky to be alive and that he praised the secret service. Did he really praise the secret service? They should've apprehended the shooter as soon as they saw him instead of waiting till he fired shots at Trump to do something about it. @lovebuglena There are definitely some deep ended questions that need to be answered, and I am sure will be answered. But I think to criticize the Secret Service immediately after this probably would have had terrible optics and he was right not to do it.

Yes. He can post on Facebook again. As for whether he will do that? Maybe. Maybe not. I know he's pretty much avoided X ever since Musk let him back on the site. Although much of his Truth Social stuff gets tweeted out of an account that retweets Truth Social posts from Trump. I guess we'll have to see what happens once Trump becomes president again. He may be more willing to go back to some of these sites since it would give him better reach to speak directly to the American people.

We can always push back. Granted, sometimes even that doesn't work. But we can still do our best to try.

@porwest Trump got shot at his rally today, have you seen that yet??

@2ndchances24 Yes. Of course. I know we talked about it, but I didn't want to leave your comment here ignored at the same time.