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<blockquote data-quote="Genghis Khan" data-source="post: 1058566" data-attributes="member: 4527">RE: Zuckerberg Contemplating Presidential Run?That&#039;s not really proof, at best it&#039;s circumstantial evidence you can maybe convince some people to change their minds.Facebook needs to be careful how they approach this - like Fake News, it could all blow up in their face. All you need is Trump sending out one tweet accusing Zuck/FB of manipulation or commenting about it on the debate stage, Fake News making a spectacle of something Trump said that was offensive to FB and have his entire base consolidate more. Facebook can rapidly become as suspicious as Fake News is to the average Trump voter. Gen Z is especially savvy regarding the internet and /pol may end up mocking FB so badly it wrecks their profits hard.The Rock is actually a far greater threat. Dude is charismatic as hell and as far as I can tell is really clean in terms of his personal life. The question is whether the Democratic party would actually field him. A successful cis man with a normal family life? Also incumbents are hard to beat if they&#039;re doing reasonably well on their agenda, especially in recent history with Bush Sr. being the one exception of a president not being re-elected. Then again, he was riding on the coat tails of 2 term Reagan. If Trump gets even parts of his agenda completed: job creation and reduction of immigration, he&#039;ll be very tough to beat, even by someone as charismatic as The Rock.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Genghis Khan, post: 1058566, member: 4527"] [b]RE: Zuckerberg Contemplating Presidential Run?[/b] That's not really proof, at best it's circumstantial evidence you can maybe convince some people to change their minds. Facebook needs to be careful how they approach this - like Fake News, it could all blow up in their face. All you need is Trump sending out one tweet accusing Zuck/FB of manipulation or commenting about it on the debate stage, Fake News making a spectacle of something Trump said that was offensive to FB and have his entire base consolidate more. Facebook can rapidly become as suspicious as Fake News is to the average Trump voter. Gen Z is especially savvy regarding the internet and /pol may end up mocking FB so badly it wrecks their profits hard. The Rock is actually a far greater threat. Dude is charismatic as hell and as far as I can tell is really clean in terms of his personal life. The question is whether the Democratic party would actually field him. A successful cis man with a normal family life? Also incumbents are hard to beat if they're doing reasonably well on their agenda, especially in recent history with Bush Sr. being the one exception of a president not being re-elected. Then again, he was riding on the coat tails of 2 term Reagan. If Trump gets even parts of his agenda completed: job creation and reduction of immigration, he'll be very tough to beat, even by someone as charismatic as The Rock. [/QUOTE]

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