#Startup Proposal: A Site Devoted To Facilitating Regular, Massive Protests #Resist

by Shelton Bumgarner

I think it’s time that members of The Resistance stop being keyboard warriors on Twitter and start to act in real life. It seems as though the United States — a country I love dearly — is quickly hurdling towards a dark and unknown (and potentially dystopian) future.

So, I am proposing a social media startup designed specifically to facilitate regular massive national protests with the intent of putting pressure on Congress to finally do something about the cancer on the Republic known as the Trump Administration.

Doing such a thing would be very complex and potentially time consuming. But if you designed an app or a site specifically from the ground up to meet the needs of this concept, then I think it would help greatly.
Regular massive protests on a national scale would have to be legal, civil and well organized. I would not want to use Facebook or Twitter because I find them cumbersome and too easily compromised by trolls, bots and MAGA haters who would want to disrupt thing.

Anyway, in my vision of things, the service would be set up like this: You would have Groups that were divided into threaded Discussions. One third of the screen — the right side — would be live text chat. If you wanted to start a threaded discussion with someone in text chat, you just hit a button and invited them into a video chat that could have up to four people in it. This would be done in the context of a Discussion (which would take up the other two thirds of the screen on the left). Below the initial video chat would be a place to write a full page blog post. The whole thing would be threaded and you could have inline editing of someone’s post.

But this is just the basic concept. As time progressed and problems arose that needed to be fixed, the service would evolve to meet these problems. Best of all, after Trump was brought down, the service would be repurposed as something of a “Twitter Killer.”

I suspect the only way to fund this site would be either an angel funder or crowd funding. I doubt you could get a traditional VC to fund it simply because they wouldn’t see how they could make money right away. I believe if you see this site as the core of a potential Twitter Killer, however, it would be a pretty cool investment.

Regardless, we need to strike now, before Trump does.

Talk To Me Internet: Struggling #Writing A #Novel & A #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Talk to Me Internet
In this one I talk about my #novel that I’m #writing and how I have another concept that should be a #screenplay, not a novel. I need to suck it up and realize I have two different creative opportunities on my hands.

Talk To Me Internet: Of Crushes & Middle-Aged Romance

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Talk to Me Internet
In this one I talk about middle-aged #romance and my need for a muse. I need to change my life, big time and it’s a just a question of how. I talk about my crush and how tragic it is in real terms.

Talk To Me Internet: We’re In A Crisis #TrumpRussia #Resist

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Talk to Me Internet
We’re in a crisis when it comes to #TrumpRussia and the next few days will be significant. There’s not much we can do about it. It will be interesting to see what #Mueller does on Monday. #Trump may freak out and do something crazy. I am also worried that Hillary Clinton is in real danger because of Trump’s insane behavior.

Talk To Me Internet: Of #Gab & #UraniumOne

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

I am really concerned that something tragic is going to happen because of the insane Uranium One rhetoric coming out of places like Gab. It’s simply completely bonkers and there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s all leading us down a slippery slope that could endup with some truly horrible consequences that we can’t anticipate at this point.

We Have To Take The Possibility Of War Between The DPRK & US Seriously

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

I am growing ever more nervous about what’s going on between the United States and the DPRK. The issue, for me, is we just don’t know. We just don’t know what is going to happen next. It could be that this is nothing. It could be that we’re just going to muddle through and nothing changes.

And then there is a real chance that there will be a war between the United States and the DPRK. An example of this can be found below. This is now floating around the Twitterverse. I don’t know what to make of it.

The only reason why I think a war might happen is that with his poll numbers hovering at about 37% he needs a win. He needs a big win. And what better way to goose his poll numbers but with a major regional war in Northeast Asia. Given how nasty and yet ultimately fulfilling a war with the DPRK would be, it would be the perfect way to get his poll numbers up into the 80s, at least.

But I still believe there’s a good chance nothing will happen. I guess that’s the part I hate the most, the not knowing. The not knowing which way things will go. So, we’ll just have to see I guess.

Why Chelsea Handler Should Run For Office

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

With the announcement that Chelsea Handler is going to end her Netflix show to “concentrate on activism,” it is timely to raise the notion that she should run for office, maybe even for president. In this post-Trump era, she has all the skills needed to be an effective candidate.

She’s a celebrity, she’s caustic and she has some very well developed opinions. And I think she would give Trump — or one of his successors — a run for his money.

But we’ll see. Nothing fun-interesting every happens, especially if I suggest it.

Talk To Me Internet: Mulling Writing A Non-Fiction Book About Trump’s Era

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

While I am writing a novel, I have also decided to work on a non-fiction book about this era of Trump that we’re living in. It will be interesting to see if I can write a few hundred pages on all of this crap we’re living through, but I like to think I might be able to.

We’ll see.

Talk To Me Internet: Mulling A #Startup Concept

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

I have an idea for a social media startup that I’ve been pondering for years now and here is the latest version of it.

See, you would have “Groups” that could only be created by verified accounts. Within groups, you would have live text chat that filled a third of the screen. On the other two thirds of the screen, you’d see threads, or “discussions” that were made up of recorded four way video chat with an associated text post that could be in-line edited by others.

Anyway, that’s the vision.

Idle Musings That Emily Ratajkowsk Should Star In A Remake Of ’10’

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

It occurred to me today that Emily Ratajkowsk would be perfect to be featured in a remake of “10.” She is so much like Bo Derek in personality not to mention beauty that she would be an ideal person to use the role Derek made famous as a vehicle.

Both women are kind of languid and matter-of-fact about their sexuality that it would be cool to see Ratajkowsk play a role as as the one in 10. As for the male lead, I imagine someone like Seth Rogen would be pretty cool. Anyway, no one listens to me.

This thought just occurred to me.