Predictable, and also predictable

As reported by Reuters:

Nov 19 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor of reinstating the former U.S. President, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence, in a poll organized by new owner Elon Musk.

Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstatement.

"The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated," Musk tweeted.

[...]

Trump had appeared less than keen earlier in the day.

"I don't see any reason for it," the former president said via video when asked whether he planned to return to Twitter by a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting.

He said he would stick with his new platform Truth Social, the app developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) startup, which he said had better user engagement than Twitter and was doing "phenomenally well".

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

Elon Musk reinstating Trump's Twitter account was the single negative outcome that almost everyone was dreading... except, of course for Trump's supporters.  The potential negative impact on the American electoral process, and political discourse in general, combined with Elon's libertarian tech-bro bloviations, had many people worried that Elon was effectively buying Twitter specifically reinstate Trump's Twitter access, as a sort of Ultimate Shit Post.

Now, just two weeks later, the reality of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been across-the-board disastrous to such an extent that even Trump doesn't want to be associated with such a lustily-burning garbage fire, preferring his own social media startup even though Truth Social is also a hot mess, and a fraction of Twitter's size.

Ouch, baby. Very ouch.

I don't know what Musk was thinking here, but attempting to embrace Trump, only to be rejected, seems to me like a low-percentage play. A sort of "Hail Mary" play, if you will, except that he's thrown an interception on that play, while his team-mates flee the field. Because it's on fire.

GG, Elon! Nice work.

Liars...

All of these topics were ones I'd previously asked Twitter not to show anymore, including "Based on your likes." All of them are back again, regardless, as was their "turn on push notifications" plea... which they'd also previously, repeatedly, promised they wouldn't suggest anymore.