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Trump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg With Prison For ‘The Rest of His Life’ If He Uses Facebook to ‘Cheat’ in 2024: ‘We Are Watching Him Closely’ (www.mediaite.com)

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Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatens to imprison billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg in his new book, Save America.

Underneath a picture of Zuckerberg meeting with Trump at the White House during the latter’s presidency, Trump writes that Zuckerberg “would come to the Oval Office to see me” and “bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.”

Then came the threat:

He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me. We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.

Zuckerberg recently addressed a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) in which he admitted that the company had made a mistake when it demoted The New York Post‘s controversial story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 after being warned about Russian disinformation effort against the Bidens by Trump’s FBI.

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[–] [email protected] 192 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fake billionaire should probably avoid threatening the real billionaire. Anyway, carry on.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Let'm duke it out next to the Titanic while in a carbon fiber sub.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

let elon build it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

Careful, he might call you a pedo if you don't like his submarine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But if it shorts out as soon as it gets wet, it’ll never get to the proper depths..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It will once it sinks

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Better than getting eaten by a shark!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'd pay to watch that.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing Trump does not remember when Elon Musk tried to bully Zuckerberg into a physical fight leading to Zuckerberg accepting the challenge and Musk having to tuck tail and run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Man. I was hoping it would play out like pro wrestling. Then Tom from Myspace outta nowhere with the steel chair on both their asses.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So people who interfere with elections should be imprisoned for life? Hmmmmmmm.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

I mean he said it, I think we should do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

If only logic worked for people without brains.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But Zuck is a big reason T**** won in 2016. And why he's doing as well as he is now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They eat their own if you aren't entirely fascist enough

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps Trump is pissed that he's not doing it again this year?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Zuck is doing it again this year. They announced that the team that's supposed to remove election disinformation is gone. Plus, Zuck said they won't "give in" to any government censorship, even when the censorship is to protect the public, ie - removing violent right-wing posts that helped fuel the riots in England.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Facebook is the reason Trump was elected in the first place (Cambridge Analytica).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

Same goes for the Brexit vote. They're responsible for a lot of damage to the western economies...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

The message donnie is meaning to convey is if Zuck doesn't give him an assist again, he'll be in prison.

Also, despite what all the qons, the tankies, the tone police, and the likes of donnie, Elon, and Matt Taibbi say - exercising caution over the "laptop" during the election was only all too important.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

“Dictator on Day 1” is putting the pieces in place for his second coup attempt. Russian & other oligarchs (Musk) are helping.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We are watching him closely

Remember, anytime he says "we", it means "I", because I'm sure nobody else gives a fuck and he always tries to make it sound like his personal rants are actually popular opinion.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It also implies a threat from his rapid mob of fans.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

It also implies a threat from his rapid mob of fans.

Not only are they fast, they're also rabid. ;)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

Two words:

Cambridge Analytica.

This isn't a genuine accusation, it's a loyalty test.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Zuck is already tipping the scale in Trump's favor. What a fucking moron turning on an ally of his.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Zuckerberg has nothing to fear. Unlike Trump, he's a real billionaire and they make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good Old Projection: The Republicans are already using X to cheat the election and they don't want competition.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

You misunderstand. Trump doesn't mean cheat when he says chest. He means anyone who doesn't support him. It's the same thing the Nazis did. They changed the rules to make political opponents criminals and/or just killed them in the street. They use words as weapons, and they often don't mean what a normal person assumes it to mean.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah considering the endless flow of conspiratorial bullshit from my relatives you're just fine orange fuck face.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well earned hatred for Zuck aside, Trump really seems like he wants to imprison the entirety of the seventy percent of Americans who don't bend the knee to him. Depending on what level of military support he garners if he manages to weasel his way back to the White House, we could realistically be looking at a Cambodia Khmer Rouge situation.

I'm not a gun guy, but I've seriously been thinking about getting one - not for self defense against a militarized police force or unimaginably powerful military, but as a quick out should things turn to round up the Dems bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If politics is making you think of killing yourself. Maybe take a step back from politics. There's more to life than Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, there are times when politics takes an interest in all of us, even if we don't want it to.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

“But my friend Elon can fuck around as muuuuuuch as he wants.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“…we are watching him closely”

—the dotard who doesn’t understand how a windmill works is going to ascertain the subtleties of employed algorithms.

Let’s change your nappy and get you to bed, Grandpa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

the dotard who doesn’t understand how a windmill works is going to ascertain the subtleties of employed algorithms.

You've made the mistake of thinking they care about facts. What they mean is "if we even think you are favouring our opponents we will punish you for it." What they are leaving unsaid is "you better favour us so that we don't say you were favouring our opponents."

Facts don't matter, all that matters is the threat of his mob. That's why the cemetery he illegally filmed in isn't pressing charges.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Did Musk tell him that Zuck is a meaniehead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If only people like Merrick Garland could have that kind of energy against the people who actually tried to cheat in 2020 (and are trying again even harder in 2024 because nothing fucking happened to dissuade them!).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hey!
We don't want to set some kind of precedent where politicians can be responsible for things they do now do we?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't zuck want trump to win though?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Publicly, I imagine Zuck doesn't want Trump to win. As Trump is terrible for anyone's brand.

Privately, Zuck does want Trump to win. Anything to continue to generate more wealth cause who cares about worker rights, LGBQT rights, minority rights, environmental rights, etc. All those pesky rights just get in the way of generating wealth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Forbes has Zuckerberg at 179 billion and Trump at 7.5.

Trump threatening Zuckerberg is like a Chihuahua talking smack to a St. Bernard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

There's absolutely no way Trump is worth 7 billion dollars. I'm skeptical that he's even a billionaire once all his liabilities are factored in.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I bet that is something zuckerberg haven't considered when he built his doomsday vault on Hawaii...

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/

I am not really sure who to root for in this battle of shitheads, best case scenario would be the two of them somehow eliminating each other simultaneously

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Can we put them in the same cell and convince Trump that it's a reality show?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I kinda hope both of them try to put Zucky away. For some reason, I have no robot sympathy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If Zuck's cheating keeps Trump out of the oval office, he won't have the authority to send him to prison, now would he? Unless Trump is so delusional that he thinks he can win despite "cheating", which of course he would.

But if Trump loses, it can only be because of cheating or election interference, it can't possibly be because the American people opted not to chose him. Totally not the delusions of a sore loser, nope.

God, sometimes I wish he had his head blown off back in July. Not having to listen to this moron spew off nonsense day in and day out would have been nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Grammaw has never been so conflicted.

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