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See you later, dude.
Here's some of the juicy quotes:
New York (CNN Business)The blog page that former President Donald Trump launched less than one month ago, after his team suggested he'd be launching a major new social platform, has been permanently shuttered.
Jason Miller, a senior aide to Trump, told CNBC that the page "will not be returning."
Miller confirmed to CNN that the page had been scrubbed.
"It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on," Miller said.
Those who attempt to visit the page are now greeted with a web form asking for their contact information to receive updates through email or text message.
The blog, called "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," was launched May 4 and came months after the former President had been banned from Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR).
At the time, the page was billed as a platform by which Trump could speak directly to his supporters.
Fox News, which first reported that Trump had started the blog, dubbed it a "new communications platform."
But late last month, Trump disputed Fox's framing in a statement.
"This is meant to be a temporary way of getting my thoughts and ideas out to the public without the Fake News spin, but the website is not a platform," he said.
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what do you think happened - has he been pressured into closing it down, or done so voluntarily but why - maybe he had nothing to say!
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No, the Trumpster was not pressured to shut it down. No way.
The reality is that no one was reading it and I would think that the low numbers of readers was an embarrassment to him.
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oh dear, that is funny. how fickle is that - all those supporters only liked him when he was president!
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Well, I'm sure that all his supporters still like him, but the problem is that they are all illiterate and all those big fancy words that Trump used were just too confusing to them.
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yes I suppose a lot of people go on facebook and twitter and that's as far as they go.
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I didn't. So I am just wondering. I mean maybe the format was too literate for him. He would have to write paragraphs of cohesive sentences instead of just 280 character word-bite provocation.
Or was someone else doing the writing for him? Somehow that doesn't seem to fit him.
Or as you said, not enough people were reading it. But I don't believe it is because they don't read in general.
But it could be that the nature of the format was too formal for him and his readers. I mean it is all so official, from the desk of ... that he can't just link to some weird video he saw. There is a level of responsibility to what gets published there that is much higher than just retweeting something. Probably it all needs to get approved by his lawyers before going live.
Interesting when you think about it. I hadn't until I saw your post.
If this is correct, it kind of implies, in a more general way, that a lot of the weirdness that takes place on social media is exactly because of the lack of accountability. People can write whatever they want, under a fake name, or when under their real name in a way that they are probably not legally accountable as they would otherwise be.
I don't know, not exactly a legal expert on the subject. just speculating.
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I am wondering how much of Trump's support was thanks to Q-Anon. and is he still being supported by Q-Anon followers or has that changed.
On a brighter note my cat has bounced back and was hungrily eating biscuits yesterday, followed by a snooze in my lap so I know she was okay with the digestion and hopefully will put on a bit of weight now.
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No, I did not read his blog mainly because I didn't care to do so and because I didn't know where it is. And that I think is the crux of the failure of Trump's blog is that people probably didn't know where it was. Once kicked off of major platforms like Facebook and Twitter, I believe you become somewhat irrelevant.
And I was mostly kidding where I said that Trump's base is illiterate.
On a late night TV show, Jimmy Kimmel, he did an ask the man on the street questions and had a picture of Jill Biden's wife who had turned 70 years old on that day. Of course, this is TV comedy stuff, but he was in Hollywood on the Sunset Strip and of those young people no one knew who Jill Biden was. And furthermore, when he showed the same picture with Joe Biden in it, people didn't know who he was. Again, this is TV comedy so it's not scientific at all, but I believe that a lot of American's are totally out of touch with reality.
Modified by eDrek at Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 11:15:39
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do you think it is worse in America than other countries?
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Other countries and being stupid and ignorant?
Well, I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised if we all live in the stupid Bizzarro World where up is down and down is up and nobody knows the difference.
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drek, I really do believe that as a species we are becoming increasingly unhinged with each generation.
We are now old enough that the younger folk have more impact than we do and so our world has become more crazy.
I am wondering about the bunny rabbits. are they becoming unstable too?
here's my flower pot. it is white clay with terracotta in the incised lines on the base. I'm still making pots, really enjoying it. one or two more before firing. Then I am thinking of doing the companion piece to the mermaid - the human beast. 
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I certainly like your flower pot.
As far as everybody becoming unhinged, that subject is taking over my whole mind. I feel like a stranger in a strange land.
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thanks.
I had bananas on my mind yesterday and the day before. the end of a bunch that was well and truly ripe and needed to be cooked. I had other stuff to do and I couldn't get to them and finally I did. Do I need this much banana ice cream no of course I don't but it wasn't just wanting to use them up, it was the quest to make a caramelised banana ice cream. My first batch had the taste and the chewiness of the caramel was a bonus but overall the consistency had suffered, the banana hadn't entirely disintegrated. so I was consumed with thoughts while doing other things. I had been thinking of intensifying the banana flavour through desiccation now I was thinking of how to keep them soft and still fry them. I added more lime juice, into the sugar as it melted, over the bananas as they went in. more salt and sugar to balance. less butter more cream less milk more of that finely ground herb cooked into the butter. Instead of halving and frying both sides I chopped and squished the bananas and cosseted them in the caramel sauce. it's got a silky feel again. so I have high hopes it will make good ice cream.
what were we talking about, do I sound unhinged?
I'm not, I promise you. I have my feet very firmly on the ground and my brain works well with a cool easy running. and I value that, it wasn't always this way, I got quite distressed in my 40's trying to understand what was happening to me and looking back what I have to say is that getting religion put me in the swamp. and marrying someone in denial, as I accepted more and more false information, slowly it cut the ground out from under my feet.
I remember the time I consciously recognised I had lost ground and that it was dangerous and thinking I must make an effort to regain ground and it happened quite quickly really.
easy for me to speak. distressing as it was, I was only being affected by another. recovery is a simple act of homeostasis. what about being born like that, already subject to that distress, and what about the ongoing effects in our evolutionary path.
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Of course Jimmy Kimmel is going to ask 20 people and pick out the three dopiest among them. I do think there is a lot of ignorance in the US in general though, just based on what I have read and experienced directly.
In Germany it is a bit better, probably just because the level of education in general is a bit higher. The people I speak with, and really that is in all walks of life, mostly seem to know what is going on. Maybe there is a younger generation where that is not the case. I literally had a teenage girl in my house once who did not know what East Germany or East Berlin or the wall was. Something like that. I don't remember specifically. By the way we (and she) live in Berlin. I am hoping that was an extreme exception. Actually I know it is. I have lots of teenagers in my house and most are very knowledgeable about the world.
But that is Germany. I meet lots of other people from other European countries and they are very well informed as well about things. But maybe I only come into content with a certain level of education type person.
In other parts of the world who knows really. I do get the sense that there is an intentional policy, at least among the Republicans, to keep people uneducated in the States, because I think they see that as an advantage for them. I don't get that at all in Germany or other European countries. But that is just my own speculation.
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yes it is a good question isn't it, I've been wondering if maybe America is paying the price for Billy Graham.
I have spent quite a lot of time now on the straight spouses forum where you get to read intimate stories where religious beliefs are involved as well as instinctive responses from predominantly Americans.
fundamental Christian evangelism is alive and kicking across the globe it seems to me, but it's America that has embraced it. Even the educated professor types are comfy with them.
And the other thing that stands out - the self-help industry has now got a whole country going to see a counsellor for anything and everything as long as your health insurance holds out. It's staggering to me sitting here in Australia, I know we're travelling on the same route but we're a long way behind. I keep wanting to say what makes you think the counsellor knows any better than you do, it's your life. (I don't say it).
But then. But then I think about those Islamic states or the craziness in Asia and suddenly the unhingedness of the Americans is more out there and endearing and not as scary to life and limb.
I do think in general as a species we have fundamentally hit a tipping point where mental health issues have become unavoidably more prominent. ie it is in who we are not how we live.
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