Thread by @TheRickWilson

1/ So let me give you a couple pointers on what Elon and Trump want out of this news.

They want you to panic. They want rending of garments and tearing of hair. Trolls are going to troll, and this is pure trolling.

Instead of being locked in the Mar-A-Lago...

2/ ...bridal suite like an umber Miss Havisham with raging verbal incontinence and a crashing set of mental disorders, he'll be loose in the wild again.

So what? On net, he's benefited from social media jail for 1.5 years now. It allows the cult to dream of the Dear Leader...

3/ ...it's let Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy tell major donors "Trump is over. He's done. He's behind us now."

It's let the gentry conservative media swoon and drool over Ron DeCastro and pretend Trump's apostasy is now at an end.

4/ And it's let Democrats get lazy, thinking the golem will never trouble them in his favorite trolling modality.

But you have to fight the fight you're in, not the one you want to be in.

He's coming back. So what? You gonna run from the bully?

5/ Or are you going to use it to show the world how utterly bugfuck drooling insane he is?

Or use it to make "moderate" Republicans in swing seats own every iota of his madness and shitty behavior?

Or to remind folks the GOP has no ideology by idolatry to Tangerine Baal?

6/ Look, no one *wants* him around but if he's going to be here, make it hell for him.

His pollsters and advisors telling him to stick to the Truth Social backwater want that so the lunacy is contained somewhere no one sees it.

(And for a SPAC scam, but TASFAD.)

7/ I'm not telling to lay back and think of England. The return of the shitposter army will be real, and loud.

But for now, Twitter remains a central narrative battlefield, and you either fight on it, or you surrender to the panic he seeks to induce.

8/ I, for one, plan to approach Trump with a mature, measured approach: hand jokes, dick jokes, mental acuity jokes, and Trump-so-broke jokes.

"But that's just like Trump!" the anti-anti-Trump horde will cry.

Except I don't want to be POTUS, and he desperately does.

9/ In 2020, our "Bannon Line" targeted voters (soft Rs, more educated Rs, suburban women et al) would pop into verbatims constantly with some variation of: "I like policy, not his tweeting." or "I hate the tweeting" or "the tweeting isn't Presidential."

10/ Imagine the pent up demand in his squishy dome. Imagine the scores he'll want to settle. Imagine the political and media (and legal) liabilities he'll accrue.

Look on the bright side. This country beat him before in part because he had Twitter dysentery.

11/ Just like using Fox news to fuck with Trump's head, Twitter will lock his rat brain where everyone can fuck with him, every day.

To quote Paul Bowles, "Let it come down."

We're ready.

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