A.G. Gancarski
President Donald Trump, whose rise to the pinnacle of power was fueled by Twitter, has been unceremoniously deplatformed.
Banned from Twitter for inciting an insurrectionist riot against the U.S. Government while serving as President of the United States, Trump has easily become the most high profile example of cancel culture on the right.
And for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump being divested of his ability to make his thoughts known on Twitter is a tragedy with potentially dire consequences, as he tweeted Saturday morning.
“Even those who oppose Trump should see the danger of having a small & unelected group with the power to silence & erase anyone. And their actions will only stoke new grievances that will end up fueling the very thing they claim to be trying to prevent,” the second-term Republican chided.
It is telling that even as Republicans consider removal of the President for encouraging tens of thousands of his most bitter supporters to storm the Capitol as the election of his successor is certified, Sen. Rubio is more focused on Twitter bans than the precarious ledge upon which National Security sits.
Rubio has said he will push a “center-right” rebrand headed into his 2022 reelection, and the tone of his tweet suggests a delicate balance between plays to the Trumpist right and rhetoric that sells beyond the Fox News green room.
Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott offered his own broadside attack against Twitter Friday, noting that the medium allows totalitarians throughout the world to Tweet, so the President should be afforded the same courtesy.
“Twitter has now permanently banned President Trump’s account. Meanwhile they allow the Chinese to openly brag about genocide and the Ayatollah to talk about wiping Israel off the face of the map. How can they defend this? Their attacks on conservatives are shameful,” Scott contended, via the @ScottForFlorida account.
The Senator took a second bite at the apple with his second Twitter account, @SenRickScott, where he disputed Twitter suspending Trump for “incitement of violence.” After all, he posited, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweets without censorship.
“Maduro commits genocide, but is allowed to use Twitter to spread propaganda with no repercussion. Shameful,” Scott contended.
11 comments
Sonja Fitch
January 9, 2021 at 2:21 pm
Danger! Fool! There is inciting civil disobedience for lies and hate from the goptrump death cult! Little Marco you are a joke! You ain’t even good at being bad! Get out Marco and take Rutherford with you!
Palmer Tom
January 9, 2021 at 6:23 pm
Twitter is a private company. It owes nothing to Trump.
Joey
January 9, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Twitter rules are clear. Follow the rules or you get ban. Trump can go to fox and talk to American People is he want. But he like to hide using apps.Little Marco have to go.
tjb
January 10, 2021 at 9:01 am
Joey,
You left out Parler, right? Also, for bible versers Rubio:
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Frankie M.
January 10, 2021 at 9:43 am
Nobody cares about those other countries but you Rick and only when it suits you. But that’s ok. I think I know who put you up to this. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Tom mims
January 10, 2021 at 3:45 pm
The “small unelected group” would be corporate America. Apparently Lil Marco no longer supports the rights of private business.
PeterH
January 10, 2021 at 11:37 pm
All Americans especially House and Senate members should stream a recently released Netflix documentary called: Social Dilemma
Something must be done. Perhaps …. as a start ….. all social media should be 100% banned from all political advertising and posting content.
Chris Crittenden
January 11, 2021 at 6:04 am
Well said U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rick Scott. It’s a shame to see most of the people that were for him during his presidency and see them now openly turn against him. Not all but some and their typical of politician “acting”. It sickens me to see this country so divided and what the left is proposing, our founding fathers would be turning in theirs graves!
Yep
January 11, 2021 at 9:36 am
The right fights hard for private companies to be able to refuse service to anyone. (Not baking cakes for gays etc.)
Now they want to force Twitter ( a private company ) to allow this traitor and violence promoter to use their service.
Glenn Reihing
January 11, 2021 at 10:28 am
Trump is NOT without a platform.
Trump can use the press briefings to air his issues and make comments.
His First Amendment rights are just fine. It is just another one of Marco Rubio’s lies.
Kathy Proctor
January 11, 2021 at 5:23 pm
You people are asleep…. most of the world is asleep. If you take Trump out of the picture, and look at your government and what it is doing to free speech, Changing the constitution, shifting media to one side or the other based on who is paying the most money, you will see the government has you all fooled. Look past Trump people… Look at your government officials. They are corrupt. We blame Trump and media shuns Trump because he is trying to WAKE YOU UP and big tech media is rocking you back to sleep.
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