For the last decade, I have worked tirelessly to build the Republican Party across all 50 states. From winning governorships in states like Louisiana, Virginia, & Texas; flipping congressional House Districts from 🔵🔜🔴 in states like Florida & New York; using voter registration to flip counties and increase Republican voter registration in Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin; recruiting volunteers to make phone calls, write letters, knock on doors, & become Election Day Workers — we have shown there is no power greater in the Republican Party than its grassroots leaders.
The last year has been tough on all of us. Our friends became our enemies & we lost sight of what’s important. Instead of joining the orchestrated division, I’ve kept my head down, laser-focused on party operations, avoided any drama or derailment from our goal of defeating Joe Biden, & continued to build county & state parties across the country with a neutral focus.
I’ve even shown with presidential candidate signatures that I’m willing to help all of our choices — going above & beyond to give everyone a fair chance.
…but our country is in danger of collapse. There is no 2028 without winning 2024. This is it — it’s 2024 or bust: with the invasion of millions of illegal aliens; a porous border kept open by Joe Biden and his thugs; 300 Americans dying daily from fentanyl poisoning; 500,000 homeless Americans living on the streets, while illegals are pushing veterans out of housing; the economic collapse that is making the middle class poorer; the brink of war with Russia, China, & Yemen; a world where America isn’t respected — where Hamas knows it can murder Israelis; young children are being taught about sex, but can’t read, write or do math; our greatest freedoms & foundations, the 1st & 2nd Amendments are being trampled upon; and everyone else sees the truth — America is on the verge of total destruction. If we go down, so does the globe.
We were born for such a time as this — I truly believe that. There is no greater urgency, no greater call, than the one we are hearing today. It’s time for strength; it’s time for a record of success; it’s time for an economic recovery; it’s time for parents to rise up; it’s time to rebuild our forgotten cities & recognize the forgotten men & women of our country; it’s time to stand up as Americans from coast to coast; and it’s time to come together as a family in order to save the country we love.
It is with great honor, humility, and excitement that I announce today, before the Iowa Caucus, my enthusiastic & wholehearted endorsement for Donald J. Trump for President.
CC: @realDonaldTrump
Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job.
It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users.
"Data scraping" is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It's a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else.
This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC's that are trying to gain access to everyone's information to analyze and use for nefarious things. Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping.
It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom
The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again.
It's also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That's not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called "ingress and egress" of data going "in and out" of the servers. A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site's financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone.
Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps).
The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free. These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you.
It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people.
#TwitterDown #TwitterLimits #SolutionsArchitect #CloudSecurity #FreeSpeech