Devin Nunes appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss his new position as CEO of Truth Social and the challenges of building an anti-fragile platform. {Direct Rumble Link}
Having spent the last 14 months deeply organizing and constructing what Nunes is describing, I can appreciate the scale of this effort his team is attempting to create. Building technology platforms that are anti-fragile to Big Tech is not easy and is extremely expensive.
As Nunes notes, vetting the system partners and providers is a priority. Each small component must be reviewed as a vector, a window into the larger network of systems that are created. It’s not just a matter of an independent network of servers, it is also a system of server capacity to handle millions of simultaneous user engagements and billions of Ajax calls per second. CTH is based on a much smaller scale version, and even at this level it is a very complex undertaking. WATCH:
Nunes is hopeful that Truth Social will be live as an independent social media system sometime before the end of the first quarter. It will be interesting to see how they handle user privacy, user data and access points for user engagement.
They will likely have to build out the majority of their infrastructure from scratch, and they will burn through a great deal of investment capital along the way. Fortunately, there are people inside Big Tech who will align with the independent objective.
Uh-oh. The end of the quarter. I thought the plan was to launch on President’s Day. I hope and pray they will pull this off.
Do not forget pochahontas a- hole lezzie warren tried to have the sec and another government agency investigate Truth’s books and filings – she and feel the bern and the squad and dem leadership all need to be financially investigated for big tech $$ contributions and perksgiven to their dem political hacks all on the on going big tech payroll!!
This is kinda strange in that they are asking for donations constantly. This platform has a pile of money already plus DJT and his connections. No reason explained for the delay, so it prolly isn’t a positive. I had also heard it was President’s Day launch.
Well, in all fairness, Nunes did address the challenges they’re facing to make sure the platform is fully secure from tech’s manipulative tentacles. Still this would be a given. I would imagine this is a massive project, but still, in my view, don’t announce a launch date you’re not confident you can meet. It already starts out with disappointment and concern. At least for me.
Asking for donations…….really? TMTG is selling shares in the company (30 million issued) and they are also raising money through a PIPe. TMTG has raised a total of 3.7211 billion dollars as of this evening. And if you include their warrants, the total amount raised is over 4 billion.
The initial stock offering was $12 and is at $73.12 as of Friday. Up 38% in the last month alone.
Stock price x shares outstanding equals market value. Does not equal $ raised.It was done via SPAC. Special Purpose acquisition company.
SPAC = Patrick Orlando. What a swell guy lmao
DWAC doesn’t ask for donations. It is a stock to purchase.
What you are probably seeing is the republic party rinos using President Trump’s name
to get donations. I get multiple emails daily.
Just a hint, if those requests from politicians or political organizations, include prepaid envelopes, fill that sucker with every kind of unidentifiable newspaper clippings until it’s as full as possible – without looking suspicious – and then send it back with no return address or numbers noting who you are!
If they have to pay enough, they might quit? Naaaa, they ain’t gonna quit.
I think some of the paper envelopes have bar codes, even.
But it’s not those that annoy me. It’s the emails and text messages. At this point it’s not unusual for me to have to delete 20 to 30 of them a day. The messages are all from different phone numbers so blocking one doesn’t help.
It’s only an annoyance, though. I know whom I want to support and whom I don’t. I don’t need to read any of the marketing.
I do check them for cross-endorsements, because sometimes that can be very revealing. And not in a good way for the RINOs.
Absolutely shameless. And done by the corrupt, grifting, RINO-enriching Winred.
I agree that’s what it is, because the tone of the emails and text messages frankly stinks!
They include all sorts of tricks meant to take in people who are a lot stupider than the average America-First bear. The latest one tonight announced I needed to reset a password. The others constantly say dumb things like “President Trump asked me why you weren’t on the list.”
It’s horribly embarrassing. If I thought the crap was actually from his organization I’d be very annoyed. But I don’t think it is. I blame WinRed. Ever since that announcement last year that the RNC was siphoning off his donations, I’ve smelled a rat.
My donations to new candidates like Joe Kent, and good organizations like Project Veritas, have of late all been by paper check.
Donations for political purposes cannot be mingled with this kind of endeavor. Everything political must conform to and be reported to the FEC.
Give it a rest Sarah Lee. Start ups are never easy and the forces of evil want us to worry.
She did say the end if February…I don’t see the rush..ready when it’s ready. Impressed by Nunes….
End of Q1 not a problem. Someone else said it wouldn’t be ready for the 2022 election.
They can start with all features not live, limit functionality, scale, crawl, walk, run.
God knows we so desperately need something that will serve as a focal point or place where lovers of America can coalesce.
Here is an example of why this is needed!
Certainly not comprehensive, but after checking two national network news shows this morning, and one local station, there was not one peep about all the protests in Canada, Austria, Australia, Germany, etc.
They do not want Americans to get the idea that protests are needed or even possible: I just came back from a Yuppie Kroger Grocery Store and practically everyone was obediently wearing a stooopid mask!
“The yuppier the store, the yippier it is about the Wuhan Flu!”
It used to be that Americans demonstrated and protested often! Now we sit and obey and unthinkingly follow unconstitutional ukases like Russian peasants bowing down to the czar…or a Communist commissar!
On a side note: CBS Sunday Morning had a piece on “When are People Rich Enough?” a complete hit piece on capitalist success!
“It is not fair that these billionaires buy private jets and boats and mansions: how many billions do they need?”
Of ironic interest is that Leftist billionaires were the main villains in the piece! 🙂
Unspolen is that much of their “billions” is not tangible: would Mr. Gates receive full price on his Microsoft stock, if he decided to cash in say 10,000,000 shares, or even 100,000? No, and he would ruin everyone holding the stock if he did!
My favorite part: a Dutch professor pushing “Limitarianism” to restrict the rich from becoming too rich!
Did the reporter ask her how that is not just Socialism/Communism with a new name?
It is to laugh! 😉
“Who controls the media controls the mind” Jim Morrison
The control of the media is crucial to controlling a fake “Democracy’ government. Controlling monopoly money creation is also important which they do. Communism=Democracy
That Jim Morrison quote takes on more meaning when you consider his father’s career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison
yes ma’am. he was part of the CIA fake Hippie cultural marxist movement. That was our communist cultural revolution
(George Stephen) Morrison was commander of United States naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sparked an escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
“Who controls the media controls the mind” Jim Morrison
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a propaganda extravaganza.
Do you really think Jim Morrison was part of the CIA? From the articles I’ve read, it sounds to me like he and others were a just a group of military brats that hung out together and rebelled against the establishment (i.e.. his father).
Are you talking about Jim Morrison of The Doors?
The kid who was so introverted he started out standing with his back to the stage while he sang?
Agreed. And…
But when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
They can bend it all they want
John Mayer: Waiting on the World to Change
Interesting tune.
Hmmm, interesting…..especially since CBS is run by leftist billionaires.
“An old GESTAPO trick: shoot one of your own to prove that you’re not one of them!”
From Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest: a henchman (Martin Landau) to his Russian spy boss (James Mason) .
In this case, perhaps, it is “trash your own” to prove that you are not as corrupt as they are.
Ausonius,
You just took my heart.
That scene and all of Topaz are GOLD!!!!!
My favorite is Hitch’s own: Shadow of a Doubt.
But I love most of them.
There is already a social network called GAB that is totally independent of big tech. They have been purged by all the BIGs. Banks won’t loan them money. Apple and Google won’t list their app. Anyone who puts an app on them is beholden to them. Will be interesting to see their terms of service. ‘HATE’ speech allowed?
Gab is worth your time. It is big on free speech.
Cutter, Gab does not have an app in an app store, but Gab recently introduced a step by step process to create your own Gab app. As to ‘hate’ speech, Gab allows legal free speech.
I can’t do anything but read GAB because I use a flip phone and do not text.
I like GAB. I heard that Jared would never allow P. Trump to join GAB because Torba wouldn’t write specific anti-semitic prohibitions into the TOS.
I think it’s ok but it’s not a moderated salon with some civilized manners, like CTH.
Also never cottoned to their interface. I prefer Gettr – it’s easier to use. Not that the discourse there is anything close to as elevated as here!
Most of the people complaining about censorship on Gettr that I see are usually just mad that they can’t use flat-out vulgarity.
” place where lovers of America can coalesce”
I just had a flash of “lovers of America” last night
I watched “15:17 to Paris”, Clint Eastwood’s movie about the young American military men who subdued a Muslim Terrorist (funny how those two words go together, huh?) on a train from Denmark to Paris
Terrorist was armed with what looked like an AK-47, 300 rounds of ammunition, handgun, and knives
The film is a long-windup to the action part, showing at great length how these young men grew up as childhood friends in a moral America and later having American values further instilled by enlisting in the US Military and training for individual specialties
They were perhaps uniquely poised to thwart the terrorist, having brawn and training and will to act
After subduing and hog-tying the terrorist, they are later shown accepting awards from the French President, who presented them with the Medal D’Honore, the highest of French honors …. you can’t watch the scene without having a wave of American pride sweep over you … IF you’re an American, that is
The film closes with a ticker-tape parade in their honor in Sacramento, I think it was – one of the 3’s hometown
Again, a wave of American pride swept over me for their heroism … and for the appreciative Americans there to honor them along the parade route
And I thought “where have we maintained that America?” … I know it’s not gone
Not the present America of anti-police riots for a whole summer
Not the present America of unrestrained smash-and-grab store lootings and train robberies
Not the present America of police being ambushed and shot in the face
Not the present America of Christmas parades being run over by racist career criminals in SUVs
So – yeah – we need that “focal point or place where lovers of America can coalesce”
We need a bunch of ’em, in fact
God Bless those 3 servicemen for their heroism
God Bless Clint for making such a good movie
And God Bless us all … those who are true Americans
The 15:17 to Paris
Watch the left go from censoring social media platforms to trying to censor the internet itself. The left absolutely can not tolerate a non leftwing controlled alternative. And watch the GOP say nothing, do nothing to help.
Hopefully, Truth Social won’t just be a Facebook alternative but an integrated platform with built in functions that provide Twitter/Paypal/GoFundMe services as well.
My recollection is that the nature OF the I-net, makes it virtually impossible to censor, directly.
Thats why they circumvented anti-trust, as a way to achieve the objective.
Just one more important front, in the War on Tyranny.
Better to get it RIGHT, than get it QUICK, you can bet it will be subject to 24/7/365 atracks by “hackers” and trolls/rollcons etc.
Hanbun: I want built-in functions to bombard politicians and bureaucrats and their staffers with the vitriol and ridicule they deserve.
And they will go after your ISP. A satellite network like Elon Musk is building may be needed.
Yep. ISP blocking is coming.
I don’t have a cellphone. I hope Truth Social will have other means of account confirmation other than ‘Text’.
And here I thought I was the only one in the whole U.S. who didn’t/doesn’t have a cell phone.
sorry, Hanbun, I accidently flagged your comment – didn’t mean to, I was trying to edit mine just above
Gab has also had to survive and thrive in the big tech tyranny. To the point they are building their own payment processing company. They were parlered before parler existed.
But sadly, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, in my opinion, has a giant chip on his shoulder, understandably so after all that Gab has gone through. We’ll see how he responds to Truth Social.
Torba isn’t afraid to name the people causing harm. Tucker won’t name them. Nunes won’t name them. Trump won’t name them.
I’ll forgive a lot of failings if a man is willing to speak the truth.
But sometimes he responds in a childish way.
Why sadly? Torba is motivated.
That which does not kill us makes us strong!
Gab is being very innovative in building what they call a “parallel society”…I like it!
I love Torba’s vision for a “parallel society” – he’s on the “go Galt” train.
Me to. Been there for a couple of years.
Torba rightly points out that if your app depends on any big tech, say Amazon Cloud, then you are not independent or anti-fragile at all.
Then there is the free speech aspect. Gettr just banned Roger Stone, among others.
You need your own hardware and your own code. That’s why Gettr, Parler, Rumble are all still just another sub-department of big tech.
I’m not a fan of Stone’s, he’s way too egotistical for me, but why did Gettr ban him?
How do you know Gettr banned Roger Stone and “others”? Got a link to an article or something? I’m quite curious.
The process for getting a red checkmark on Gettr is mysterious, I agree. There are often several imposters of anyone well-known there before the checkmarked one surfaces.
Torba has said some very nasty things about Gettr in emails I get from Gab (I’m on it but I don’t post much). Actually, he’s said nasty things about what seems to me the entire social media world that isn’t himself.
It doesn’t seem to me the way to build any sort of organization that people will take seriously.
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I’m supportive of GAB, but one of the problems they are having is with totally unmonitored anything goes free speech, they are having a lot of hecklers, trolls, obscenity, racism, etc.
E.g. This past week Torba started subject matter feeds. A great idea. But then aholes somehow jumped in and crapped all over them, so you will see the same garbage comments and memes posted over and over and over umpteen times in between legitimate posts. There has to be some kind of guidelines.
Sensored speech isn’t free speech. Sorta like being a little just a little bit pregnant.
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Uhm, no. The “heckler’s veto” is a recognized form of preventing speech.
He needs to put something in place to eliminate duplicate posts.
The repost feature is good and bad. I don’t have all the answers so I ask you.
Who decides?
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I guess Torba does. Maybe put code in his new feed programs that prevents duplicate posts. There are a lot of people wanting to sabotage his success. I am especially suspicious of some of those “white supremacists”. Feds/tech/false flags?
He has build GAB.
Building his own banking system.
News wing.
I am not qualified to comment on his operation anymore than tell DJT how to do it.
Vile hate speech can quickly end any new platform.
The free speech guidelines are written into law. Your benevolent dictator will be a tyrant to another.
Gab has tools to block trolls. Use them as you wish.
Can’t afford multiple Moderators or automatic editing out of racist comments?
I hope this Truth Media thing works out.
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I would like to see Big Tech trumped by Big Donald. 🙂
These 15 Billionaires Own America’s News Media Companies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/?sh=935f161660ad
The Rothchilds own almost everything.
I heard it was Blackrock and Vanguard who own 90% of everything.
Nunes knows the monsters they are up against. That is critical.
Kash Patel his former Chief of-Staff
Devolution
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution
Patel Patriot was named after Kash, I believe, but is not Kash.
Patel is as common in India as Smith or Jones in the USA.
land lines, US mail, western union and face to face. Yup, I even remember a thing called a pay phone. 😛
And party lines.
Those could be fun! I remember my Aunt on the farm, picking up the receiver whenever the phone rang, even when it wasn’t the ring for her phone… got all the area gossip and info… no need for a newspaper, and, of course, in those days.. TV was non-existent.
Now that there was real social media!
Money Express was The Best. And Morris Code.
IIRC…The Morris Code could only be understood by cats 🙂
I see what you did there. 🐈
Phone booths on the street corners.
Smoke signals.
How about “face to face”….?!
I used to remember something called a conversation. What ever happened to those days? Now all you hear is nasty people talking.
A bioweapon from a Communist China lab in Wuhan was what happened.
You mean back when we balanced our checkbooks, wrote notes to ourselves and others, etc. using a pencil and paper?
Yes, I remember. Computers are SUPPOSED to “speed things up”, so why is it all of us, spend so much of our time, WAITING on the damn computer?
Remember when the IBM PC first came out? All those commercials showing the paper piles disappear? I still have piles of paper on my desk. lmao
I worked at Microsoft for ~9 years (2006-2015).
Never signed a single piece of paper, or had to complete one for work while I was there. We had printers on every floor (1 printer for ~ 100 staff), but virtually went unused. 100% electronic– from hire to resignation.
5 years at Cisco (2015-2020), only signed a couple pieces of paper, 99% of everything was electronic.
That’s with big companies… the home user is different, I think.
Don’t get too cozy with electronic signatures. I had to disqualify a mail-in ballot in 2020 because someone used an electronic signature which, of course, did not match. I felt horrible about having to do it.
Title theft scams can only be made easier through electronic signatures.
Dutchman,
I enjoy the best of the old and new. Just so happens I balanced my checkbook this morning and FaceTimed with grandson tonight.
I have been unable to get on Locals.com today using any of the links for people to whom I have subscribed. I have checked and it is definitely not down. I have tried every browser I have on hand and they WILL NOT TAKE ME THERE.
Anyone want to give one a whirl and give me some feedback?
https://jovanhuttonpulitzer.locals.com/upost/1116314/lets-catch-up
I get there using your link.
JovanHuttonPulitzer@JovanHPulitzer
3 hours ago
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Went through for me.
Me too, using Opera
I got on using Brave browser.
No problem here, TwoLaine.
DDG browser & search.
Takes me to the log in pulitzer page.
Thank you everyone! Thank You!
So it is just my computer, all of a sudden. That is very helpful. A new project for tomorrow.
Yep, home repair is fun, ain’t it? Microsoft did an update about three weeks ago and my laptop keyboard went dead. Last time that happened I ended up doing a hard recover. Bad joojoo.
This time I really did some digging on the forums and found a post about using an external keyboard to logon. Voila!
Went to Majorgeeks.com, downloaded Tweaking.com and ran that. Problem solved.
Linux Mint won’t do that to you. And unlike winoze LM will not phone home and blab everything you do.
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Every time I see your moniker I feel a whiff of glee and think of a particular extraordinarily cute and very bad little wire hair fox terrier I once had a very long time ago. I can still hear my mother yelling and chasing him after he got into the clean laundry in her basket… and peed on it… again… and then bounding away through long grasses in the field looking for more mischief like getting himself covered in stickers… or rolling in manure… or chasing ducks..:-)
I keep remembering one who used to run all over town and the cops even tried to catch him and never could. came by the house looking for him and he was behind the fence in the back yard, just like he was supposed to be. They never did catch him either.
Just destroy it and tomorrow you can build it back better.
😁
Appearing on FOX to promote what should be a renegade social media network is not exactly encouraging.
Where would you have him appear in the msm? Few choices for real exposure.
It’s a kosher network, so fully appropriate.
Yep, life was much better when all cell phones did was make and take calls, house phones, pagers and payphones were fine. This site is my only foray into Social(ist) Media anymore. I gave up the rest of it in 2017.
Yup, the misnomer of 2022 is the “smart” phone.
Stop giving your enemies your digital id and data.
Just flip them off and recover a lot of your privacy.
“Fortunately, there are people inside Big Tech who will align with the independent objective.”
You’re leaving me hangin’, Sundance.
I think he means that there are plenty of people who will move over to Truth Social because they hate their jobs and employers where they are.
I would guess he means the few and far between ???
I’ve heard Glenn Beck say that there are quite a few libertarians with skills who work for big tech.
I’ll give you my two cents since I was in “big tech” for a long time before they went woke and wrecked everything. Companies were filled with an entrepreneurial spirit. Everyone worked hard and long to build things that worked. There was a mutually held belief that if we built it, they would come. There was zero politics, other than people doing the usual jockeying for position as companies grew fast and furiously. Work ethic was the #1 value. Independent workers were highly valued, and rewarded. This weird woke, everyone must fall in line, lead with emotions, gobbledeegook crap sensitivity training would have been laughed out of the boardroom. “Racism” wasn’t an issue – people from all over the world collaborated to get things working and people earned respect by solving real problems. “Open Source” was a thing and the “Internet was free” – it was a culture I wish we could return to.
Sounds like a good book, how and when big tech went woke.
My tech career was exactly like that. Worked on software for the Macintosh in the 80’s. It was blissful and inspiring.
I keep wondering what Jobs thinks looking down at the corporate fascism that has overtaken his once great company…
Perhaps… but, it would be suicide for the identities to be known at this point, imo.
Precisely.
Sundance knows because he’s working with such folks for CTH.
Giving us a heads up and hope is enough, no need to out them.
Simple solution: stop reinventing the wheel… join Gab and make it even more powerful…
How can I post without having a mobile phone to receive text messages? I’m not interested in a smart phone or texting.
I post using a Apple MacBook Pro. I call the company I want to join and tell them to send their confirmation code to my email account. I let them know I do not have a smart phone. I use that.
Otherwise, borrow a smart phone from a family member for a few minutes, set up your account, get your confirmation code on the borrowed phone, then delete the test. You may have to go into the account later on and change the reported phone number to your actual phone number, but that is easy to do.
The name (“Truth Social”) doesn’t work on many levels.
It’s a sight better than “Meta” where they harvest your metadata and sell it to the highest bidder.
Truth > Merde
Truth Social works on enough levels maybe more when it goes live.
I am still predicting a massive DDS attack on launch. And if they try to cut them out of the internet I suspect it will be the mother of all lawsuits.
Never, ever underestimate an Obama or Biden appointed federal judge presiding over a case between leftists and patriots.
Just saying…..
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Obama gave away U.S. control of the internet for a reason…
Might want to keep an eye out for RV’s parked on downtown streets too.
“As Nunes notes, vetting the system partners and providers is a priority. Each small component must be reviewed as a vector, a window into the larger network of systems that are created. It’s not just a matter of an independent network of servers, it is also a system of server capacity to handle millions of simultaneous user engagements and billions of Ajax calls per second.”
Much like a supply chain then, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Precisely why, IMHO, Truth Social must be a stand alone endeavor.
“Truth can stand on its own. Lies need hate speech laws and censorship/de platforming to stand”
Gab has already done all of this. Trump could just get on Gab.
“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
well he wants to control the thing himself. Understandable from his pov
Agreed
Gab should join the effort to support Truth Social rather than self-righteously flinging mud pies. IMHO. No offense to Gab – they’ve had a tough slog and have done well.
Andrew Torba carries a grudge against Kushner who was just doing business when he tried to push his way into Gab and Torba was not having it.
While I think Torba made the right move I also believe he is stuck on stupid with that history.
What has Gab said about TRUTH social?
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There’s room for both.
Why in the world would Gab voluntarily share their hard fought success?
Max, that would be akin to putting Humpty Dumpty back together from a fall off of Trump Towers.
It will never happen.
Truth is a lot of talk. Gab is reality.
EXACTLY!
I’m confident Gab was approached for a look-see early on but was probably considered “small potatoes” at the time and couldn’t scale it for the 20 million or so users who would, overnight, join the platform.
So they decided to build their own…fingers crossed 🤞
PDJT’s team probably looked at Gettr too. It’s now scaled to a presumed 4 million which is pretty good. But I do agree with both sundance and Torba that a platform on Amazon Web Services is like building a car with a chassis made out of a plastic tarp.
Jason Miller claims that Gettr has backup ready and waiting in case they make a move against him. I hope that’s true near the midterms when they will probably attack.
Is the stock for this DWAC ?
I believe that is correct.
I’m so glad, and can’t wait! I just want them to get it right. We don’t need another Twitter style platform. We need a Facebook style platform where groups can be built, can be private, used for hobbies etc We know who we vote for, but we’re also human with our interests. If they do that and not just a political platform to get votes, they will destroy Facebook and Twitter
That would be good. Nothing yet has become what Booky McFakeBookFace is to a lot of people who use it for family and interests (most sadly unaware how they are being exploited in the process).
Gettr is already the Twatter model.
Gab is sort of its own model.
MeWe and CloutHub both tried (and in my opinion, failed) to be FakeBook.
“They will likely have to build out the majority of their infrastructure from scratch, and they will burn through a great deal of investment capital along the way. Fortunately, there are people inside Big Tech who will align with the independent objective.”
There aren’t many non-Marxist tech titans, but Palmer Luckey and Peter Thiel come to mind.
Imagine what Sundance/CTH can do and say on Truth Social without fear of being censored and banned?
Yep. That was when the CIA killed a president, ran foreign wars, and the super majority of Americans had no idea
And have a former CIA chief as VP and President.
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But that was not because Americans put themselves onto tracking devices.
I fully admit I’m being lazy asking this question, but has Truth Social been offered as an IPO yet?
Reason I’m asking is that if they need capital, a WHOLE lot of people would be willing to buy a few shares to help them with initial capital needs.
Biden’s SEC, FEC, IRS, FBI, CIA and 100 other government agencies would put this on hold until January 20, 2025.
Emoluments Clause? If so, makes sense.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/trump-linked-spac-stock-soars-over-100-on-social-media-deal/
It soared on listing,
DWAC. I bought it at $70. I wanted to support the effort. I went in at an amount I could afford to lose, but of course I hope that it does great.
Big Tech will flood the this infrastructure with scam
They’ll shoot themselves in the foot before that will ever matter.
I would have thought Trump would joint venture or work with Gettr as an in place platform. Bannon, Pompeo, and Cortes are all on Gettr. Finally I like Nunez, but does he have moxie it takes to develop and scale a social network platform? I would have preferred him to stay in Congress and battled the deep state once the Republicans have a majority this November. I see this as a very risky deal…
GETTR apparently originated from a web of companies operated by Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman who fled the country in 2014 to evade what he says are politically motivated charges of corruption …
Jason Miller stated on the Tim Pool Podcast that Gettr has no direct link to any Chinese company. Jason stated that one of the investment companies who funded Gettr, has had business dealings with Guo Wengui (Miles Guo), (a rich Chinese national living in the USA.)
Jason was a co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room and met Miles Guo through Steve, who has done business deals with Miles in China until both became persons non-grata.
GETTR has Chinese origins.
I also feel the name is a bit too “grab’em by the nether regions” . . .
Gettr is short for “Get Together.” As in connecting to a community.
Let’s ALL Rumble and GETTR done!!!!
I have great hope for this new platform and for Devin Nunes as it’s CEO.
it remains to be seen if this will be a great feather in the hat..
patriots are fickle and should be.
Nunes is not a tech and security guy, he is a very good outward facing figure to draw an audience of patriots.
I will participate, but if it does not live up to the standards, the platinum rock hard solid standards of CTH, I don’t expect to waste my time.
On the other hand, from what I have researched and based on the long delays and from the comments made by nunes here, emphasized by sundance in his brief, it would appear they are laying a proper foundation to scale out and also to mitigate against the kinds of threats from big tech and the USG to avoid those interferences.
I have high standards. CTH was a abject lesson in paying attention to the most important aspects of building a town hall in the “modern” battlefield called the interweb.
They are probably getting help from inside Big Tech as we speak, some absolutely hate what has happened to ‘their’ world and will quite happily moonlight!
I’m almost positive Peter Thiel–PayPal co-founder–is one of those assisting, advising or at least supporting this effort.
I remember many fax trains.
This is the ONLY way to break BIG TECH’s stranglehold on the conversation. The ONLY way to allow TRUTH to be discussed and discovered. They MUST NOT fail.
This is too important to rush. I say, good for you, Congressman Nunes. Take your time and get it right. The worst thing that could happen is to rush just to meet an arbitrary deadline if you are not ready. I can wait.
I am sad Devin decided to leave his government position- he exposed so much fraud deceit & government people against our great President Trump. But I understand he probably had enough of the attacks on him & his family- so I pray Truth Social will take off like a rocket!
They gerrymandered his district. No way would he have won the seat again. His district was split up and everything in the area is democrat except for a the sliver of territory that McCarthy has. Devin’s only move would have been to primary McCarthy and he didn’t want to do that.
I believe he exhausted his influence and realized the scale of the corruption on capitol hill and the entire USG as a whole could not be properly treated as a member of congress.
Breaking away from that deadend and using a different platform and devoting his attention to raising awareness without the censorship and constant backbiting and threats from his “fellow” members was necessary.
His goals appear to be legit and straigtforward and he does not mince words. I think he realized the longer he attempted to use his official position, the more likely his actions would call attention by the stazi..
that doesn’t mean he isn’t out of the woods yet though…I can’t imagine the corruptors have any plans to suspend their operations to attack him, given he has made it clear his mission is now to relate his grievances and represent those of Americans on a competing media platform that is looking very potent.
So, he is actually walking into the fire. And I admire that.
I hope they succeed, but Gab is where I have been for a year and I will continue to support it.
They could integrate?
There is room for two uncensored, unbiased free speech platforms !
Never happen. Gab is not for sale per Andrew Torba.
There is always room in a free and fair market for competition.
I am not going to fund Trump Social. I will continue to fund Gab.
Integrate content, post on one platform, it uploads to the other. Not a financial transaction.
Of course there is room for two platforms.
And more.
Competition is good.
I joined GAB Oct 9, 2016 but didn’t become active until about a year ago. I regret that.
Gab is as dead as yesterday’s news. Joe Dan can’t even get a following.
I like that Joe Dan is on Gettr – it’s lots of fun seeing his posts there.
Yeah and we depended on the left wing media for our information. We still have tards that believe everything they spout with out hesitation.
And if they use YouTube they might believe you have to remove the radiator to change the fan belt.
It would be good to have a meeting place for content like today’s rally in D.C., coverage of the trucker’s journey across Canada, reporting on relevant court cases, etc, without having to scour the nether regions of the internet to put together a patchwork of sources and ad hoc reporting.
Devin back home at the ag museum. Hope he does another interview there when the Ag Expo is hopping in a couple weeks. World class event there.
Some here would be surprised at how many have gone back to those good old days. Face to face and the US Mail (which, unsurprisingly, has slowed down as of late) take a bit more time but are very effective.
The US Mail is no longer working. The people who work there don’t even know how to read cursive writing any more. For peat sake make sure you make sure your envelope is typed or nobody can read it and it will never get where it is going. Will take at least a month to get back to you if it ever does.
The U.S. mail was intentionally slowed down. I still don’t understand why?
I’d guess unions.
The Internet was designed by people who are/were politically agnostic. Ie: libertarian.
The truth is that “social media” and “hosting companies” have been coopted by the Left… but in reality the basic design supports many different types of “social media”.
Just think “dark net”…
All it takes is money and/or organization.
I was marginally involved in developing software. One thing I learned and believe is that the first public version cannot be buggy. If it is, you’re done for. If I download an app and cannot figure it out in 2 or 3 minutes, I delete it and move on to the next one. It’s better to delay release than to release a real buggy version.
You are correct! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This from GAB – Andrew Torba on the subject. I agree with everything he says and unless Truth Social builds their entire infrastructure from ground up and not using Big Tech for anything they are just Big Tech or will become like big tech to survive as the screws get tightened heading in to the election..
If however Truth Social is building an entire new independent network and not using anything big tech then I wll support them. But I suspect they are not and Trump draws a lot of grifters around him and where is all the money coming from?
Torba:
After my last few blog posts people have been messaging me and asking why I am criticizing alt-tech phonies like Gettr, Rumble, and Parler when I should instead be focused on the common enemy of Big Tech.
These people don’t realize that by calling out these fakers, I am indeed focused on Big Tech because they are nothing more than subversive subsidiaries of Big Tech itself.
These platforms are literally all built on Big Tech infrastructure, they all have Big Tech “hate speech” rules, and they are all distributed on Big Tech app stores with Big Tech trackers hidden in their code.
What don’t you understand?
They are Big Tech, but with a different logo.
Let’s talk about the reality of what is going to happen to Gettr, Rumble, Truth Social, and anyone else who thinks they are going to provide an alternative to Big Tech–while depending on Big Tech infrastructure.
Gab’s Law: If it’s in the App Stores,and/or hosted on Big Tech servers it’s not free speech. Period.
If it depends on Big Tech infrastructure it is a de facto subsidiary of Big Tech by default.
As soon as these platforms get any reasonable traction Big Tech will pull the rug.
They did it to Gab in 2018.
They did it to Parler in 2021.
They can and absolutely will do it to Rumble, Gettr, and Truth Social.
Gettr bans “hate speech” and bans right wing dissidents thinking they will appease Big Tech. They don’t get it. You can’t play by the rules in a rigged system on a battlefield owned by your enemy.
Truth Social will likely take the same approach: ban “hate speech” to stay on the app stores. This strategy is doomed. If not “hate speech” Big Tech will nuke them from orbit with one click for
-Covid/Vax “misinformation”
-Election “misinformation”
-Threats to “muh democracy”
Take your pick. These platforms are under the thumb of Silicon Valley while at the same time trying to threaten the hegemony of Silicon Valley power. How do you think that is going to play out?
So are you going to go to these platforms and spend months building up a following, posting your content, and spending all of your time being tracked by Big Tech in the process? Then one day you wake up and the entire platform is gone. That’s what happened to Parler. In their case they were off the internet for months, and never recovered–even after bending the knee to Apple to get back on the App Store.
Gab is the clear choice because we see clearly through the fog of war. A war that we have been trailblazing for 5 and a half years now. We survived every level of attack and are standing more resilient than anyone else in the market by a long shot.
We are past the point of overcoming the need for Big Tech infrastructure because we spent years building our own.
Gettr, Truth Social, and Rumble will act as great shields for Gab. Just like Parler did. Parler took all the blame for January 6th while Gab exploded in growth and kept building. These other phonies will distract all of our enemies, who will turn their attacks to those platforms, leaving Gab to build and grow in peace. All we have to do is wait patiently for what will undoubtably happen.
When, not if, Gettr, Rumble, and Truth Social get nuked from orbit by Big Tech like Parler did Gab will be ready and waiting.
Torba did himself a giant favor when he walked away from Kushner. The pressure on Trump, Nunes and anyone involved in launching Truth Social is enormous and Gab is growing by leaps and bounds now.
If Kushner and his financial buddies are involved with Truth Social (which I have heard they maybe are), then Truth Social will not be free speech. It will be funded by globalists and run by globalists for Big Tech.
I believe Kushner tried to monetize Trump’s following when he tried to strike a deal with Torba.
Kushner eithet overvalued that following or Torba was unwilling to take a back seat. Or maybe both.
In any event, Torba harbors his grudge while professing his Christianity.
I block him and while I respect what he has done with Gab, I do not respect his actions.
Agree. I was glad he said no to Kushner. Torba is correct here. Torba and Gab have been through this ringer long ago. Hopefully Trump Media will learn a lesson from it but I have concerns with Kushner involved. We’ll see.
Agreed. If they are on app stores I shan’t download.
Compromised.
I joined GETTR and I had also joined Gab long ago but rarely used it. But I got the Gab emails. I read the one about GETTR, followed his links. I deleted my GETTR account. No part of a platform should be subject to Big Tech. I understand SD went through great pains to make this site independent.
The only thing that concerns me about Twitter competitors is infiltration by commies and lefties posting racist or other such trash to create the impression (and evidence) that the site is filled with bad people. How are people like that to be dealt with?
Jason Miller says that if Gettr is subject to an attack, they will recover right away because they have prepared for it. Remains to be seen of course.
I will continue to use them – it will be interesting to see what happens. If they get attacked and Torba is correct that they cannot recover, then so what if I lose a few hundred “followers.” (Interesting biz model – I don’t ask for them, they just keep happening. I was never on Twatter so this is new to me.)
As for trolls, they have both “muting” and “blocking” features, so none of those bother me for very long. They do have the problem with duplicate posts that someone mentioned Gab has.
Now, if I lost CTH, that would be an entirely different matter!
I just hope the terms of service is the bill of rights and the constitution. Nothing else
Who they partner with must include financial institutions such as banks, credit cards, ‘gofundme’, and ‘pay pal’ type operators. with 75+ million Trump voters who could donate $10-1,000 on demand, it will break the balls of the liberal financial cartel. Conservatives have to be prepared to open their wallets to fund everything from election integrity to Kyle Rittenhouse, to the January 6th protestors and once they do it will change the political paradigm radically.
It must be done.
A conservative bank as well.
register the nicks of as many trolls as possible
never post under the nick
Fortunately, supporters will purchase the stock.
Hope TRUTH has the same openness and terms of service as GAB. I hear Trump wouldn’t join because he wanted anti-semitism comments removed? GAB, said it was free speech. To what extent comments were anti-semitic, I have no idea.
Why does TruthSocial have a preorder on the Apple App Store?
https://truthsocial.com
Disappointing
Agreed! What the heck is going on here?
Recently unsubscribed from all but Donald Trump.com email because the constant phony tactics used in soliciting donations. By the next morning I was contacted by the DNC asking to donate to Biden. F*cking RNC selling my info to Dems. Uniparty anyone?
I think it’s too little too late.
A robust free speech platform already exists. Gab.com