How To Kill Twitter & Bring Down Trump #Startup #Resist

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

It goes without saying that a lot of people are unhappy with both Twitter and Trump. It seems pretty obvious as well that if you did a venn diagram of these two groups the overlap would be the core of a new social media service designed to not only kill Twitter, but bring down Trump.

So, even though I have no money, can’t code and don’t want to learn, here’s how I feel you could accomplish these two goals in tandem.

First, you designed a service from the ground up specifically meant to have a robust on-boarding system as well as one that once and for all fixed the problem of the online harassment associated with bots and trolls. It would likely be popular almost instantly. That is the crux of the weakness with Twitter. Twitter is dead in the water in some respects and it wouldn’t take that much to kill it if you simply addressed the major problems with Twitter in an intuitive, effective manner.

An unintended consequences of all of this is a lot of celebrities, though leaders and content providers who are extremely unhappy with Twitter would flock to a service that gave them a better experience from the get-go. They, in turn, would bring with them a lot followers who simply wanted the opportunity to engage them like they currently do on Twitter.

Meanwhile, a lot of people know that should Trump finally do the unconscionable and fire Bob Mueller, that they’re going to want to take to the streets. But the United States isn’t South Korea. If you wanted to bring down Trump through people power, it would be a complex, national affair. You’d have to keep the protests legal and regular for no other reason than if you just protested without the proper permits, etc., you’d just get arrested.

Bringing down a president with people power in the States would be require the single greatest popular unrest the country has ever seen. It’s the kind of thing social media was designed for, but never, to date, used to do so in a developed country. So, I believe, you’d need a whole new service designed to specifically facilitate massive, regular nationwide protests if you wanted to bring down Trump.

Put these two concepts together in a social media startup, and I think it would be pretty effective. It would serve as the core of a Twitter killer that would blow up pretty quickly.

The question, of course, is how to actually do it. Probably crowdfunding it our best bet. So, it’s likely that we’d have to wait for Trump to fire Mueller before all the pieces fell into place. I just can’t see an angel investor being willing to shell out the money needed to design such a service. But if Trump finally swerved into a full blown autocrat, I think Americans wouldn’t stand for it. America isn’t Turkey, for Christ’s sake.

One feature I think a lot of content providers would like in my vision of this is that Verified account holders would have more power than the average user. I think if you gave specific power to Verified account holders, they would feel they were stakeholders in the service and their engagement would be higher.

As I have said before, I think you should divide the service into Groups that are divided into threaded Discussions. There would also be a strong video element to the service, whereby you’d be able to have four-way video chat with people in the context of a threaded discussion. This doesn’t even begin to address the features you’d need to facilitate people organizing mass protests.

Shelton Bumgarner is a writer, photographer and daydreamer living in Richmond, Va. You can contact him via email at migukin (at) gmail.com.

Mulling A “Twitter Killer” Designed To Facilitate Protests Against Trump

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

I keep talking about this for no other reason than it’s fun and I like to daydream. But it seems the time is ripe for a “Twitter Killer” as well as a service designed from the ground up to aid and abet massive regular protests against Trump.

If you put the two concepts together, that would be the core of a new successful social media platform in my opinion. On one hand, a lot of center-Left celebrities and content providers would flock to a new service they felt worked harder to mitigate trolls and bots and those same people would be interested in a service designed to help bring down Trump from a strategic standpoint.

But, like I said, I just like to daydream. Because I have no money, can’t code and don’t want to learn this will never come to be. Below, I talk about this concept some more.

What’s The Craic? #TrumpRussia #Election2017 #Podcast

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

What’s the Craic?
Today we talked about it being #Election2017 in the States, #CarterPage, #TrumpRussia and Wilber Ross. We also talked about Harvey Weinstein and #Hollywood. Please be sure to like our page, follow us and share this video as much as possible.

A New Social Media #Startup Is Needed To Bring Down Trump’s Administration

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Again let me stress that I’m a daydreamer. I just like to talk out loud about things and see if I can get any response. So, take that into consideration as you read this.

Anyway, it seems as though right now all the major social media niches are filled. Reddit, Twitter and Facebook all fill a niche and so there’s not much point in designing a news social media platform that challenges any of them. Having said that, I would note that there a lot of people — many of them content providers — who are fed up with Twitter. These very same people are also ardently against Trump’s policies.

So, it makes a lot of sense if you designed a service that was initially designed to help people organize protests against Trump’s Administration, but later could be repurposed to go after Reddit or Twitter, maybe even Facebook down the road.

I have given this concept a lot — a lot — of thought. It seems to me you would need to lean on video conferencing a lot as well as text chat. I would suggest something like this:

The service would be divided into Groups that were only created by Verified account holders. Those groups would be subdivided into Discussions that would be live text chat and threaded discussions. So, you would go into a Group called, say, “D.C. Protest May 2018” and you’d first see text chat on the right third of the screen. You’d have a text chat with someone then have the option of starting a video chat with them that would be done into conjunction with a threaded discussion based on a post.

You would have a brief video chat of up to four people, then once it was done, you could write a blog post beneath it. Now, you would have to figure out how to implement the text feature with threaded discussion. That particular issue might need some additional thought, but I have the general concept down.

Anyway, you would also have any number of features that would aid in organizing a protest in your city. You’d start off with the major urban areas, then roll that aspect of the service out to additional areas as needed. This concept is really powerful and important because we’re in dire times that are only going to get worse, I’m afraid.

As an aside, the Right has their own service, called Gab. It’s batshit insane and maybe we need a counterpart to Gab that was significantly more mainstream and devote to a more Twitter experience than Gab, which is a Facebook clone. It’s all just something to think about at this point.

People Power: End Trump’s Administration With A New Social Media Platform

By Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Now, let me get some things out of the way. I like to daydream. A lot. A whole lot. I like to daydream in a pure, impractical manner. Also, I have no money, can’t code and don’t really see it as my “function” in life. Having said all that, let me again say that we need a new social media platform designed specifically to aid in protests against Donald Trump.

I think we we should design a platform from the ground up that would be designed to specifically to make it easier for people to engage in massive protests across the country with the aim of bringing down Trump. Later, after you were successful, you could flip the switch and turn the service into at least a Reddit Killer and maybe even a Twitter Killer.

One reason we need to do this is we are lurching towards of codification of Trumpism at the state level, so it may grow ever more difficult for us to bring down the Trump Administration at all. If you’re all that interested in learning more about this contact me on Twitter and I’ll write more posts about this.

In my imagination, you could probably crowdfund this concept and then move from there. But maybe Trump has to do something really bad, like fire Bob Mueller before there will be any interest in this concept. But it’s something to think about. Something big needs to be done on a concerted level to bring down Trump.

I have explain at length on my Instagram account the specs for this concept. The account is under my name.

Anyway, it’s something to think about.

‘Nightmare’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Power Ballad

This is a political homage to Pearl Jam’s “Black.” This is about the election of Donald Trump as president.

Nightmare
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

the night creeped forward
we had no idea what to expect
but the Comey letter had its affect
not we’re dealing with a dream
a nightmare really
that’s lasted for months now
when will it end
when will it end

we’re going to wake up one day
we all know it’s true
our love for country is too strong
this can’t go on forever
we can only hope that something will change
sooner rather than later

when will we wake up from this nightmare
that’s what I ask
when will we wake up from this nightmare
I gasp
when will we wake up from this nightmare
that’s what I ask
when will we wake up from this nightmare
I gasp

there doesn’t seem to be any hope now
the walls are closing in
closing in, closing in
but we can only hope for a change
Mueller’s team is on the case
when will they arrive
I scream into the night

the darkness of this nightmare
seems forever
seems like it won’t ever break
seems like the day will never come
but we have to believe it will

when will we wake up from this nightmare
that’s what I ask
when will we wake up from this nightmare
I gasp
when will we wake up from this nightmare
that’s what I ask
when will we wake up from this nightmare
I gasp

[bridge]
what happens next
is anyone’s guess
what if we learn the truth
and we just shrug
what will happen then
is there any hope?

we have to be strong
we have to believe
that there’s a chance
a chance in three
that Lady Liberty will rise again
rise again and be free

‘Thoughts & Prayers’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Power Ballad

The music to this would be a homage to U2’s Love Is Blindness. Again, I’m just screwing around. I’m in the mood to tell stories in verse, so you get this. This should fade soon enough.

Thoughts & Prayers
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

thoughts and prayers
come and go don’t you know
they don’t mean anything anymore
they just stop progress it seems
they make it more difficult for us
more difficult for us to act

thoughts and prayers
there’s not much they can do
we’re all animals locked in a zoo
the powers that be
make us feel like sheep
when yet another child is struck dead
from a weapon bought by a manman
legally, legally, legally, legally

thoughts and prayers
thoughts and prayers
thoughts and prayers
how do we stop the next killing
when all we do is offer, offer, offer
thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers

we need to act
need to do something for once
we have to believe in love
give hate a shove
our politicians are bought and paid for
it seems
when will we glean the truth
bring truth the sundlight
give us hope that is bright

thoughts and prayers
thoughts and prayers
thoughts and prayers
how do we stop the next killing
when all we do is offer, offer, offer
thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers

[bridge]
just give me some hope
give me a chance
that this isn’t our last gasp
let’s grasp hope for once
and do more than offer
thoughts and prayers

we’re all in this together
you know it’s true
why can we move past
move past for once
thoughts and payers
thoughts and prayers
thoughts and prayers

‘Good Guy With A Gun’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Country-Pop Song

This is a homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Saturday Night Special. It seems odd to believe that there was the possibility of an anti-gun country rock song. But it exists. The music to these lyrics would be like that.

Good Guy With A Gun
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

they tell me that the cure
to all our problems
is a good guy with a gun
but I can only tell you
tell you true as can be
that the answer to our woe
ain’t more guns, that’s for sho

good guy with a gun
ain’t gunna fix nothing
good guy with a gun
is just a scam
we need to fix this problem
yes ma’am

good guy with a gun
good guy with a gun
don’t screw this one up son
good guy with a gun
isn’t the way to run

it seems like
every day we got more death on the TV
too many people are dying let me tell you
too many people shot down in the prime of life
at church, at the concert, God knows where else

good guy with a gun
good guy with a gun
don’t screw this one up son
good guy with a gun
isn’t the way to run

[bridge]
good guy with a gun ain’t the cure
it’s just a part of the problem
let me set things right
we need more control
more control of the guns we got
that’s for sure, right?

women and children shot dead
every time of day
when is this going to fade away
into the night
when are we going to stop hoping
that a good guy with a gun
will set things right

‘Army Of Spies’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Rock Song

This is about Harvey Weinstein scandal. It’s supposed to be an old school Radiohead type of song. That’s the vibe for the music I’m looking for, at least.

Army Of Spies
Lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

Asia didn’t want his advances
it was a land war she couldn’t win
but he demanded she pay tribute
she got it in the end
she screamed for help
but it was too late
his army of spies
were for to move on

an army of spies
surrounded his every move
demanded the victims stay silent
you could see it in their eyes
he could touch all the thighs he wanted
but the army of spies were there

army of spies
no one can resist
the army of spies
army of spies
close your thighs
the army of spies is here

no one wanted to believe
that he could be such a creep
but there’s no doubt about it
we’re all sheep it seems
when power gets in the way
we’re all just going to cry
cry the night away

army of spies
no one can resist
the army of spies
army of spies
close your thighs
the army of spies is here

[bridge]
we’re all helpless until we’re not
the fear can tie us in a knot
but hope is always around the corner
maybe the army of spies will be defeated
maybe not

there’s only hope in the end
when he comes at you with a leer
and an evil grin
he waits to pounce
hoping you’ll lie as he gropes
and pouts
but the power of one
can defeat
the army of spies
the army of spies
the army of spies

‘Do Something’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Pop-Rock Song

This would be a homage to Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water. No one cares about my lyrics, so I’m doing this for myself. It’s relaxing.

Do Something
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

the president was unhinged
he wanted it way
he wanted it way in vain
thought Justice was his to service
so he awoke and began to tweet

somebody do something
do something
do something
somebody do something
do something
do something

he didn’t want anyone in his way
he want to rule the land like a king
so he shouted into the void
what he wanted to happen
he wanted someone to
do something
do something
do something
do something

people were aghast at his words
this was not the America we love
what is going down
why is the president acting like a clown
what is going on
why do we have to live through his
why doesn’t someone
do something
do something
do something

somebody do something
do something
do something
somebody do something
do something
do something

[bridge]
it’s too easy for us
to easy for us to believe
that we’re all doomed
and that no one will listen
if we take to the streets en masse
maybe things will change

somebody do something
do something
do something
somebody do something
do something
do something