I think this article and headline does a poor job of explaining the wider context around this one.
It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when he writes about trade and tariffs.
For firms, a delay of even seconds can be costly. Until now, banks and traders had to monitor the app manually. The new system will send posts directly to paying clients.
Trump doesn’t appear to care much about the law.
He does not. Never has. Just one of the many reasons it baffles me that someone would vote for him.
He has a known track record of illegal bullshit all through his past and up until now but somehow people just ignored it? It’s madness.
From the people I talk to, they celebrate that he can do this. To them, he’s their hero who can get away with anything. It’s a lot like if your favorite sports team can foul but not get called on it. As long as your sports team wins, it’s all good.
I’ve been saying for a long time that “winning” is the key thing amongst his fans, and their ilk elsewhere. They don’t care for making the world better, for righting wrongs, for anything other than winning. But two win, you need two things: a game to play and an opponent to lose - and they’re really good at changing those things at a moment’s notice, like a near-defeat chess player flipping over the board. Even when they run out of games to play, they can still win because your exasperation is a victory to them: maybe we are all poorer and the world is more dangerous and the existential threat is real and we’re all affected, but look how worked up you are! Haha! God you’re so triggered! You pleaded and begged them not to burn it all down, but they sniggered and did it anyway. Yes, they also lose, but they’ll just laugh at your frustration and rage, pretending that was the game all along.
If we’re talking about appearances, it appears from the outside as though the entirety of America doesn’t care about the law, given how blatantly everyone’s been breaking them without so much as a finger wagged. It’ll be business as usual until a large swathe of people get fucked (already happened plenty) and then someone organize (this part hasn’t and may never happen).
I don’t even live there and I’d buy a ticket to spit on Trump’s corpse, Mussolini style. Hope I get to buy that ticket one day.
As someone living there, me too…
------ I agree that from the outside it does look like the entirety of America doesn’t care ------ but
We have had some large protests, there’s growing discontent and assuming there isn’t a crazy amount of fuckery (there may well be though but we’ll see) the GOP will lose their majority in Congress. It’s possible then that something more may be done.
The problem is most people are comfortable enough and would prefer not to get engaged in violence but we have had some large non violent protests.
The bigger problem is that all 3 branches of our federal government (judicial/legislative/executive) are controlled by one political party and those in power are subservient to Trump and the MAGA pieces of shit.
I’d call it a design flaw but it is also kind of what happens with all Republics and ours was built this way on purpose. One could argue if all 3 branches of the government agree on something it’s probably worth doing. The question then becomes, what are they agreeing on and is it actually good for the majority of us or are we doing terrible things in the name of the state?
Idk I mean I’m sure I could, and people have, write a small dissertation here but I’ll stop now. Just … it’s fucked up for us Americans here in USA too and a lot of us hate it.