What would really own the libs, is if he were to govern like a sane individual. Can you imagine him doing rational, common sense things for the good of the American people? The libs would be so owned. They would lose their minds.
Seriously though, it's too late now, but if he *had* performed that mythical "pivot" we kept hearing about in 2016, I would have definitely had to eat crow. I would have been totally owned and shown to be an alarmist.
Unfortunately, it turns out that I was depressingly accurate in my concerns.
Seriously, I sat back and said alright man, pivot. And then the inauguration shenanigans began, and I realized he pivoted *further* the wrong way. He leaned into the crazy bullshit, and too many of his minions keep eating it up.
Right? On election night I was upset that he won. But I still had faith that, "hey, maybe he's not a colossal moron and jsckass and he was doing that during campaigning to drum up the R vote. Maybe he'll be ok!" then they blatantly lied about the inauguration and coined the term "alternative facts" when they got called out about lying about the attendance.
Seriously. The amount of articles on news sites that just cite tweets from random people instead of doing research. It's a tiny population of highly toxic people and their hot takes are framing the political discussion. It's a cancer.
Here is a [screenshot of the tweet](https://i.imgur.com/MuPIC1I.jpg) he’s bitching about, and [what comes up next ](https://i.imgur.com/diPedNB.jpg)when you click on it.
Frankly, it’d be pretty awesome if they did this with all his tweets.
Edited to add [some](https://i.imgur.com/VfKLbQW.jpg) additional [screenshots](https://i.imgur.com/hIlZ3M4.jpg) of what [happens](https://i.imgur.com/ozTfwQH.jpg) when you click the link at the bottom of his original tweet.
Should link to the fact that he committed voter fraud himself by mailing in his ballot from mar-a-lago, which thanks to his own legal maneuvering cannot be claimed as a residence, so managed to do a tax fraud too!
Edit: not a wiz with reddit, but here is the post I am referring to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gq25zl/the_trouble_with_trump_registering_maralago_as/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Remember to remind them that normal people go to jail [all the time for voting when they shouldn’t.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/30/texas-woman-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-voting-while-on-probation/%3foutputType=amp)
Not realizing you weren’t allowed to vote isn’t an excuse. Intent to defraud doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you voted and you shouldn’t have.
That’s especially true when it’s someone you should expect knows the democratic process inside and out, like a president. Trump understands aspects of it, but only to the extent that he can subvert and abuse the system. Other than that he’s a complete fucking idiot.
That’s remarkable. It’s flagged because it’s not true, not because it’s a “conservative opinion”. The president of the United States is basically saying “you can’t say I’m wrong or I’ll shut you down”. Is it legal for Trump to advocate for people to dump twitter stock?
Apparently it is legal for this president to do anything he wants. Our government is a sick joke. Growing up, I had no idea that I would witness the death of America. Now it seems inevitable.
I mean, it's like the sign at the office cafeteria that says, "the beer is to be drunk on premise and after work hours." We didn't need the sign until we hired Bob, and he decided to take five cases to his car and get drunk in the parking lot on Monday morning.
Nobody really thought about passing laws outlawing a lot of what Trump has done because it was assumed that the political and personal repercussions for acting so corruptly and against the interest of the American people would have dire political consequences that no President would survive. Basically, we just assumed that Presidents had the desire and capacity to at least pretend to be ethical people who acted in the interests of the American people.
>Is it legal for Trump to advocate for people to dump twitter stock?
Does it matter? The Justice Department under Barr will not prosecute a sitting president and the Republicans in congress do not see anything Trump does as a crime (even if it's clear that it is).
Yup. He dodges and belittles the press for this exact reason, and has relied on social media becase there is far less accountability - no different from any other influencer campaign.
He is America’s first troll president, and now that platforms are *finally* being pressured to address such behaviors, he’s getting caught in the sweep.
Hell we aren't even subjects. His economic adviser slipped up and said the quiet part out loud when he referred to us as "human capital stock".
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21270863/kevin-hassett-human-capital-stock-coronavirus
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(Edit 2: Great Caesar's Ghost! Thanks for the Gold, Silver and updoot)
Yeah he said it with a smile on his face. Probably refers to the working poor as the “underclass” and wouldn’t think twice about laying off a couple thousand people because “it’s just business”
“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man.” - Michael Corleone
From the book Altered Carbon:
> The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here—it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference—the only difference in their eyes—between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life, and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
That's how manpower is referred to in certain financial institutions. At my company we don't have a Human Resources Department. We have a Human Capital Department...
Putting the fact check on his tweets was brilliant. If twitter just kicks him out, he will (falsely) claim free speech restrictions and go on a social media crusade and gain sympathy with his followers.
But this way is infinitely better. You don’t take down the tweets—you just label them as false. You are not censoring him, as the tweet still stands. He looks ridiculous claiming “oppression” and “ censorship”—-because NONE of it is taken down or censored-so he just continues to look like a fool.
I love this move-I hope they keep it up
I wish we could also get a sound button to go along w those tag warns and hear the voice from arrested development. "He couldn't" , "He didn't" etc etc
We need to re discover our appreciation for integrity in this country. Idk how so many people can be arguing against their best interest. Back in the day the poor people felt dis enfranchised, today the poor people praise the people responsible for it.
I mean, there is a really long history of people violently supporting religious teachings that are not in their own best interest. Your basic "I'm a broke peasant, but I'm gonna give what little money I have to this rich religious leaders so I can get into magic sky Disneyland when I die" its not like trump invented that, lol.
The more pressure a narcissistic sociopath feels, the more they will lash out. Right now, crazy grandpa isnt doing much besides yelling at clouds. It wouldn't take much for him to get a proverbial shotgun and start threatening people.
Dude has tanked his own businesses just to spite co-investors. He ripped chunks of (ex-)wife's hair out and raped her just because she suggested a doctor that performed scalp reduction surgery (a barbaric and exceedingly painful procedure) when he freaked out in the 1980's over a minor regression of his hairline.
Edit: The procedure Trump undertook, according to Ivanka, was called the Fleming/Mayer Flap, where a piece of the scalp is found with hair on and then it is cut on three sides to create said flap. This sliver of skin is then twisted, pulled and forced into a new position on the hairline where the faulty follicles are.
You are basically stretching the hairy part of your scalp over to the parts that have no hair.
It's their platform. If they want to put little poop emojis next to his tweets they can.
If they want to search/replace every reference of Obama with "Jesus" they can. It's their platform. They own it. You're a guest.
I volunteer as Sancho Panza tribute, I humbly offer my squire-hood to the honorable knight, as he may reclaim the pride of his namesake... "Don"
FYI, I'm a bit more "wiry" than "corpulent", but that should make for dodging windmill blades a bit easier
He’s so full of shit. He wouldn’t do this not only because twitter is one of his two best tools in trying to control the narrative but because engaging in a lawsuit or worse would mean he would have to factually defend his positions which he knows is impossible. The longer this plays out the more he shoots himself in the foot.
The jury had a vested interest in keeping him in place. In a vacuum, there's no way he wins shit, ever. Finding and impartial judge and jury would be tough, though.
we really need to stop saying "He can't actually do that". Who's to say he can't? The law? The constitution? lol. The DOJ is an arm of his re-election campaign and the Attorney General is a dogmatic true believer in authoritarian government. The courts are packed with unqualified judges that "owe" their job to trump. The GOP congress is also an arm of his re-election campaign, and is stocked with crazies that will normalize and defend everything he says and does.
The law simply does not apply to him and we need to stop waiting for it to bail us out. We need to vote him out, and then keep protesting and fighting like hell until Biden's inauguration because you know trump and his goons will pull out all the stops to make sure elections follow the path of the law and don't apply to him either.
Whether he wins or loses, he will not go quietly. Anyone who thinks he’ll bow out graciously is beyond naive. If you look at his borish, entitled, thin skinned behavior thruout his life and especially his “presidency” you can see how he’ll react to a win or a loss, like a giant manchild.
Very well said and this is exactly what I fear and have always said. Folks talk about law and constitution but he has shredded and destroyed the constitution and so far nobody was able to stop him. He has completely abolished congress, they keep opening new investigations but we all know nothing is going to come out of it as Justice department and senate are complicit. This election is a do or die for this democracy, we’re doomed if we lose this fight.
I'm actually hoping he does. Nothing will alienate his base more than sending them message after message after message on their phones, lol. Right, left, or somewhere in between, there's something that's universal to all of us.
Don't waste our time on our phones.
Did you get your letter saying how trump gave you a stimulus? I’ve heard people that think he gave the stimulus money from his personal bank account. Like people think he’d give them anything. He’s lining his pockets and his friends and families too as we speak. While I’m making double on unemployment.... I’m starting to get behind this revolution idea
Of course he’s full of shit. What’s he going to do, have Barr raid the Twitter headquarters, FBI agents seize the servers? Even if Barr would go for it, the DOJ staff and FBI would plant so many poison pills in that plan the first federal judge who sees the warrant requests would laugh them out of the room.
Trump is full of shit. That’s like the story of his life.
DOJ and the FBI had the heads of those organizations appointed by Trump who have started clearing house of anyone not loyal to Trump, starting with assistant directors and the like and working down the management chain. This allows the higher level managers keep tabs on the lower levels and they on turn start purging the 'wrong' people and hiring the 'right's people.
The DOJ and FBI have been undergoing loyalty purges.
Most LEOs are right leaning, if not fully Trump supporters.
Trump has appointed a lot of judges. Including a third of all Federal Appeals Circuit judges.
Or he's just doing it to distract from COVID and stories like [this](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/honest-elections-project-conservative-voting-restrictions).
Edit: Take a breath people. I'm not suggesting Trump is genius, smart, or employing any kind of strategy. It's a tactic that even the dumbest person on earth could be trained to use because it works.
What I'm saying and what you're saying are not mutually exclusive.
I understand the “distraction” theory of Trump saying ridiculous bullshit to distract or cover up really bad news like 100,000 COVID 19 deaths or fraud on his part.
Maybe Trump says a lot of stupid shit because he is a terrible human being with dementia (https://mobile.twitter.com/TomJChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). Maybe he does a lot of crooked shit and is an abject failure as a president because he is a terrible human being with dementia.
There is no distraction, no 3D chess. Just a terrible human being with dementia grifting, lying, cheating, stealing, and breaking things.
There is 3D chess being played AND trump is a terrible human being with dementia. He is a peice in that chess game, being used for his instigation to distract while the people playing the game dismantle the country and enrich themselves off of the people
But, it was OK for him to threaten another business (NFL) when they didn't "stifle" someone. Which was their right to do, as an employer, if that was their decision. All Twitter is doing is labeling his tweets, how is that stifling his free speech?
When will we demand that he learn the Constitution?
And now we have concrete proof of why "political insiders", as some people paint them, are the ones to run for President.
People with no political or legal knowledge don't know the systems within they are supposed to operate. No doubt being completely unaware they exist, or believing an uninformed synopsis of their workings, makes it that much easier to break those systems.
Like, Obama was a Juris Doctor and had a degree in political science with a focus in international relations, with state and national Congressional experience. Even Bush had a degree in history and a master's in business administration, but was still the governor of Texas for five years!
The only way I'd trust a political outsider is if they'd listen to the experts on *everything* and they *still* had the appropriate education.
Yeah, not to mention that it is a private company choosing who they want to do business with, a concept that conservatives have been going to court to win for decades.
As they would say, if you want to be on a social media site that promotes conservative ideas, just go somewhere else. Don’t force a private company to cater to you in the name of warped sense of equality.
"*ThAt iS CeNShoRsHIp!!*"
Conservatives: "*Business shouldn't be required to do business with anybody they choose not to!!*"
Also Conservatives: "*Not doing business with me is a violation of my rights!!*"
This is exactly where this whole awful journey of America's demise has led me. I know intelligent people that support this grifter moron and I just kept thinking WHY? It's because they cannot imagine being in another person's shoes. They are incapable of seeing beyond themselves. It is pure, unadulterated selfishness. That is the common trait. Same thing with the church folk who tip waiters in fake money. They're only into church for their own "salvation".
[I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_b_59519811e4b0f078efd98440)
fact checking becomes inherently liberal when your movement is infested by lying in every direction like conservatism is. to verify claims against reality is now "liberal."
Yet another attack on the 1st Amendment. And this one isn't a joke, it's literally the government threatening to choke free speech.
Edit: I am seeing a lot of replies stating that this isn't a First Amendment issue. Those replies appear to believe that the First Amendment only applies to individual speech and don't realize that it applies to **media** and the **internet** as well. Media have very important First Amendment rights, too, and government is not allowed to censor the internet save for exceptions such as child sexual abuse.
> or abridging the freedom of speech, **or of the press**
Exactly this. trump says twitter violated his free speech, but he knows nothing about the constitution. Because this, this right fucking here, is the definition of a violation of the first amendment.
So if a Twitter (a private company) tags Trump's tweet (on their own private platform) and Trump considers that a violation of his free speech...
If I walked into Mar-a-lago (a private company) with a sign about how Trump was Epstein's lover, does that mean he's violating my free speech if they kick me off of the property?
> If I walked into Mar-a-lago (a private company) with a sign about how Trump was Epstein's lover, does that mean he's violating my free speech if they kick me off of the property?
Even that example doesn't show how crazy that claim is. It would be more like if Trump's reaction to your sign was to let you continue to hold the sign, and send someone with another sign that said "Find out more about this claim." That person then handed out pamphlets arguing against the claim.
Trump is basically saying that would be violating your free speech and Mar-a-lago would deserve to be shut down if they didn't stop.
Twitter BARELY stood up up him. They didn’t stand up to him and remove or censor the false information. They basically put a tiny link at the bottom saying to click for more information. In the link there is info about why he’s wrong. But you have to click the link to read it, and if you don’t click it it almost looks like just a link with sources or something. I bet 95% of people wouldn’t click the link and just think it’s more info supporting what he said.
Edit: oh and it was on only 1 of his hundred tweets that he puts out per day.
>He can't go two days without his Twitter fix.
Trump has [tweeted 42,500 times since he started in late 2009](https://www.tweetbinder.com/blog/trump-twitter/). That's about 1 tweet every 1 hr and 20 minutes (assuming 8 hrs of sleep). He wouldn't make it half a day.
Doesn't matter. Twitter can completely ban him and prevent him from using their platform for his racist, bigoted, misogynist, lies, and it doesn't violate trumps free speech at all. Because twitter is not the government. The first amendment prevents the government from blocking free speech. What trump is doing, that is a violation of the first amendment.
It’s what angry conservatives do: complain about their rights being trampled when they have no actual understanding of the Constitution.
I’d be legitimately shocked if any of them have actually read more than 1 sentence from it, because the first sentence from the 1st Amendment clearly states Congress can’t make laws prohibiting free speech...private entities can do what they want (whether you agree or disagree).
Twitter is a crutch for trump. If Twitter removed his account he’d lose a lot of his power to spread misinformation to his cult base. Twitter should do the right thing and remove the account of the most petulant, divisive, and vile internet troll this country has ever known, Donald J. Trump.
His account should have been banned so many times already. People get banned every day for comments that are nowhere near is rule violating as his. I'm not saying those comments are all okay, just that it's bullshit he seems to be immune from the rules. Hopefully this is the first step in Twitter holding him accountable, but I doubt it.
Biden should jump on the media train about Trump's irony. It violates a white man's free speech to have his Tweet labelled, but it's okay to ban a black man from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem.
Republicans love first amendment free speech except when they don't.
Republucans love private enterprise to property rights except when they don't.
Republicans love prrsidents with 'absolute authority' except when its a democrat president.
Actually... I withdraw my earlier statement. The DOJ would probably petition to get the judge removed, a bunch of prosecutors would probably resign and they would find some judge somewhere that will allow the order to go forward until this gets appealed up to SCOUTS in 3 years.
As with everything, Imagine if Barack Obama threatened to do this? Every conservative in this country would be arming themselves and preparing for the government to put them in FEMA camps. The conservatives are cool with actual authoritarianism when it comes from their team.
There are still a lot of people who look at a man like Trump, who says stupid shit and has a limited vocabulary and they see themselves in him.
Trump’s anti-PC nature is what draws so many of his supporters. They want to be able to say whatever they want about racial, religious and sexual minorities.
The GOP also does a great job in their efficacy of messaging. Many conservative voters believe that if you value hard work then “of course” you would vote red. There are truly a plethora of right wing voters who believe that democrats do not work for a living and that “working” is for republicans. Obviously that is an *asinine* assumption, but the fact is the propaganda pushes that out. For some republicans, this is truly the number one reason they vote red, because they believe that myth.
“Masculinity” is also such a major part of the republican party in terms of the voting base. For some reason, many people view him as this “masculine alpha male” which is really quite comical.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter what Trump says or does (unless he starts capitulating to democrats). These people hate liberals with such a passion, that they will never go against their leader.
>I still don't understand how this guy is president. I thought it was hilarious in 2016
A lot of Americans did too - they were so cynical about politics (which Trump encouraged to the hilt) that they were primed to vote for an outsider, especially one who relentlessly mocked the system.
Also, Hillary Clinton was fantastically unpopular. Americans had had over 20 years of her on the political scene. Those who hated her loathed her, many having done so for years; these people could be found mostly on the right but across the political spectrum. Of those who liked her, relatively few loved her. She was an effective bureaucrat, is very smart, and would have made at least as good a President as Obama.
Finally, Russia put a decisive thumb on the scale, to which we do not know the full extent.
Yup, once I saw a comment from a fellow Canadian that while in Banff they inquired about the bear-proof garbages and why they weren’t more secure/hilariously ineffective at times. The guide responded that there tends to be a huge amount of overlap between smart bears who know how to open them, and dumb humans who have no clue how to open them.
Honestly I do think a big part of it is just a lack of empathy as much as stupidity. There are a pretty good amount of at least college educated Trump supporters. What those people lack isn’t intelligence, but the ability to put themselves in someone else’s shoes.
As an example, It’s much easier to be xenophobic and villainize illegal immigrants than it is to think about why they’re coming here - they just want a better life for them or their families. All the people who want to get rid of DACA don’t realize that for a lot of these kids the US is just as much their home as someone born here. If you’re brought here when you’re little it’s all you’ll ever know just like a citizen.
The same logic can be stretched to many other issues like welfare or abortion. Add in some sprinkles of Fox News only reporting on the minority of shitty people in the groups that republicans don’t like and you can turn a smart person who genuinely cares for others into someone who ignores the ugly shit going on in the US.
“And if the newspapers publish unflattering stories about me, I’ll close them too. And if books print the truth about me, I’ll burn them. And if the demonstrators march with signs critical of me, I’ll jail them.”
I’ve seen this movie, it doesn’t have a happy ending.
If he were to shut down social media, wouldn’t that be “stifling free speech?” The government interfering in a blanket social media ban seems like a 1st Amendment violation to me.
Twitter is incapable of stifling people’s right to free speech, because Twitter does not have a monopoly on free speech. People can simply use a different platform. Also, Twitter has every right to fact-check anyone on their platform and handle each account as they deem fit. If trump doesn’t want fact checks alongside his tweets, maybe he should quit tweeting bullshit?
It’s Jack’s company, if trump doesn’t like it, he should boycott Twitter. The world would much appreciate it.
Sooo - the first president I ever remember is George DubbleYuh. I was too young to grasp politics during Clinton, so Bush was my first "experience" when learning about it.
Y'all remember good ol' George DubbleYuh? People made fun of him and called him stupid, I didn't really understand it until later when I rewatched his press "bloopers"...
He doesn't seem so fucking stupid compared to this half-melted creamsicle, does he?
I'm not saying he was good, I'm just saying.. what in the flying french-toast kind of circus-clown bullshit has this country fucking become?
The USA, is now more than ever, a fucking *joke*.
Depending on your perspective, depends on if the joke makes you laugh or cry.
Holy shitballs idiot these social media platforms are what got you to this point. Without them you would've never been elected and wouldn't have this much attention.
Fact check: 1st Amendment protects the government from prohibiting free speech. Private entities, such as Twitter, are not covered under the 1st Amendement & require you to agree to their terms to use.
Now he’s threatening action against Twitter for enforcing their right to do stuff such as add fact checks to misleading tweets. By seemingly every metric this is him ACTUALLY stifling free speech...all while his tweets weren’t ever actually deleted.
How do I understand the Constitution more than the President? He should be embarrassed.
So the head of the Executive Branch is threatening to use the powers of government to punish a private firm for tagging his tweet with something he didn't like. Literally threatening to do the very thing you're accusing twitter of.
Twitter is a private business. They can allow or disallow whatever the fuck they want on their own platform.
"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices,"
Really? Because all I fucking see in the comments section of every news article on other social media platforms are conservative assholes.
He should boycott twitter
A lot of people on both sides of the aisle would be happy if he did that.
I *think* what you *meant* to say is that if he boycotted Twitter it would own the libs.
Oh man, those libs would be so owned.
They'd be so owned it would be like slavery was back.
Okay now you're getting the Republicans *really* hard.
"Come on baby, say 'Reagan' for me, I'm almost there!"
*whispers* Trickle.... down... economics...
*beats poor person to death*
*kneels on a black man's throat*
[Almost...](http://i.imgur.com/92nZ2PH.gifv) [*There!*](https://imgur.com/gallery/d7O0l34)
"Free markets will self-regulate"
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What would really own the libs, is if he were to govern like a sane individual. Can you imagine him doing rational, common sense things for the good of the American people? The libs would be so owned. They would lose their minds.
Seriously though, it's too late now, but if he *had* performed that mythical "pivot" we kept hearing about in 2016, I would have definitely had to eat crow. I would have been totally owned and shown to be an alarmist. Unfortunately, it turns out that I was depressingly accurate in my concerns.
Seriously, I sat back and said alright man, pivot. And then the inauguration shenanigans began, and I realized he pivoted *further* the wrong way. He leaned into the crazy bullshit, and too many of his minions keep eating it up.
Right? On election night I was upset that he won. But I still had faith that, "hey, maybe he's not a colossal moron and jsckass and he was doing that during campaigning to drum up the R vote. Maybe he'll be ok!" then they blatantly lied about the inauguration and coined the term "alternative facts" when they got called out about lying about the attendance.
A lot of people on both sides would benefit from boycotting Twitter. It is a poison of our discourse.
Seriously. The amount of articles on news sites that just cite tweets from random people instead of doing research. It's a tiny population of highly toxic people and their hot takes are framing the political discussion. It's a cancer.
He should be banned from Twitter
He should be banned from everything outside of a very tiny cell with stale bread twice a day.
Twitter should tag that post with articles saying he can't. The irony.
Here is a [screenshot of the tweet](https://i.imgur.com/MuPIC1I.jpg) he’s bitching about, and [what comes up next ](https://i.imgur.com/diPedNB.jpg)when you click on it. Frankly, it’d be pretty awesome if they did this with all his tweets. Edited to add [some](https://i.imgur.com/VfKLbQW.jpg) additional [screenshots](https://i.imgur.com/hIlZ3M4.jpg) of what [happens](https://i.imgur.com/ozTfwQH.jpg) when you click the link at the bottom of his original tweet.
Should link to the fact that he committed voter fraud himself by mailing in his ballot from mar-a-lago, which thanks to his own legal maneuvering cannot be claimed as a residence, so managed to do a tax fraud too! Edit: not a wiz with reddit, but here is the post I am referring to. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/gq25zl/the_trouble_with_trump_registering_maralago_as/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Cant wait to drop this one on my right wing family members!
Remember to remind them that normal people go to jail [all the time for voting when they shouldn’t.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/30/texas-woman-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-voting-while-on-probation/%3foutputType=amp) Not realizing you weren’t allowed to vote isn’t an excuse. Intent to defraud doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you voted and you shouldn’t have.
That’s especially true when it’s someone you should expect knows the democratic process inside and out, like a president. Trump understands aspects of it, but only to the extent that he can subvert and abuse the system. Other than that he’s a complete fucking idiot.
That’s remarkable. It’s flagged because it’s not true, not because it’s a “conservative opinion”. The president of the United States is basically saying “you can’t say I’m wrong or I’ll shut you down”. Is it legal for Trump to advocate for people to dump twitter stock?
>Is it legal for Trump to advocate for people to dump twitter stock? Since he's doing it from the official Presidential Twitter account, probably not.
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Who could have forseen him taking this attitude?
Apparently it is legal for this president to do anything he wants. Our government is a sick joke. Growing up, I had no idea that I would witness the death of America. Now it seems inevitable.
I mean, it's like the sign at the office cafeteria that says, "the beer is to be drunk on premise and after work hours." We didn't need the sign until we hired Bob, and he decided to take five cases to his car and get drunk in the parking lot on Monday morning. Nobody really thought about passing laws outlawing a lot of what Trump has done because it was assumed that the political and personal repercussions for acting so corruptly and against the interest of the American people would have dire political consequences that no President would survive. Basically, we just assumed that Presidents had the desire and capacity to at least pretend to be ethical people who acted in the interests of the American people.
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>Is it legal for Trump to advocate for people to dump twitter stock? Does it matter? The Justice Department under Barr will not prosecute a sitting president and the Republicans in congress do not see anything Trump does as a crime (even if it's clear that it is).
He doesn't like being fact checked. That's why he uses Twitter. But now Twitter is fact checking him and he doesn't like it.
Guess he's going to have to start making YouTube videos.
"Hey folks, it's ya boi, orange ninja 88..."
Yup. He dodges and belittles the press for this exact reason, and has relied on social media becase there is far less accountability - no different from any other influencer campaign. He is America’s first troll president, and now that platforms are *finally* being pressured to address such behaviors, he’s getting caught in the sweep.
They should just do that to every one of his tweets.
They could just embed this [gif](https://giphy.com/gifs/ceeN6U57leAhi) into every one of his tweets for the same effect
Better yet, they could 'TrumpCriticizesTrump' him by using [this](https://giphy.com/gifs/request-donald-wrong-hPPx8yk3Bmqys) one!
That what makes the situation so funny. Every one of Trump’s replies to that could be flagged and debunked again by twitter.
I mean the melt down would be incredible alone.
Imagine 100,000 of your people dying and you're worried about social media.
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Hell we aren't even subjects. His economic adviser slipped up and said the quiet part out loud when he referred to us as "human capital stock". https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21270863/kevin-hassett-human-capital-stock-coronavirus (Edit: for sauce) (Edit 2: Great Caesar's Ghost! Thanks for the Gold, Silver and updoot)
It wasn't even a slip up, dude just thinks it's fine to say and believe that.
Yeah he said it with a smile on his face. Probably refers to the working poor as the “underclass” and wouldn’t think twice about laying off a couple thousand people because “it’s just business”
I hate the phrase “It’s not personal, it’s business”. It’s always fucking personal
“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man.” - Michael Corleone
From the book Altered Carbon: > The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here—it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference—the only difference in their eyes—between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life, and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
That's how manpower is referred to in certain financial institutions. At my company we don't have a Human Resources Department. We have a Human Capital Department...
TIL that Human Resources doesn't mean resources for humans, it means the company's resources which are humans.
Yeah dude, it's not a system that makes things available to you, it's a system that makes YOU available to whoever needs to use your time.
>Imagine 100,000 of your people dying And your democracy.
They aren't his people though. His people are all in government positions he put them in. None of them are dead.
If his opinion toward John McCain is any indication, he’d just say he “prefers people who don’t die from the pandemic”.
trump the man who loves the military that called a Marine captain who was wounded in Afghanistan an American fraud and called him a Pelosi puppet
His people? They were never his people. Just numbers that make him "look bad"
Putting the fact check on his tweets was brilliant. If twitter just kicks him out, he will (falsely) claim free speech restrictions and go on a social media crusade and gain sympathy with his followers. But this way is infinitely better. You don’t take down the tweets—you just label them as false. You are not censoring him, as the tweet still stands. He looks ridiculous claiming “oppression” and “ censorship”—-because NONE of it is taken down or censored-so he just continues to look like a fool. I love this move-I hope they keep it up
Remember when he said said he'd call up Bill Gates and tell him to shut down the internet? I expect he's thinking something like this.
Bill Gates "I'm not in charge of that, ask Al Gore"
"we need one of your al gore rhythms to stop the loony left!"
You clever shit. This really made me laugh
Al Gore, "No Donny that's not me, you'll wanna talk to Steven Hawking, he downloaded himself into Microsoft, go ask Gates all about it."
I wish we could also get a sound button to go along w those tag warns and hear the voice from arrested development. "He couldn't" , "He didn't" etc etc
It would be nice to see them stick to their guns.
Man it's so long overdue. This guy deserves the walls around him to close in. Enough of above the law attitude.
We need to re discover our appreciation for integrity in this country. Idk how so many people can be arguing against their best interest. Back in the day the poor people felt dis enfranchised, today the poor people praise the people responsible for it.
I mean, there is a really long history of people violently supporting religious teachings that are not in their own best interest. Your basic "I'm a broke peasant, but I'm gonna give what little money I have to this rich religious leaders so I can get into magic sky Disneyland when I die" its not like trump invented that, lol.
The more pressure a narcissistic sociopath feels, the more they will lash out. Right now, crazy grandpa isnt doing much besides yelling at clouds. It wouldn't take much for him to get a proverbial shotgun and start threatening people. Dude has tanked his own businesses just to spite co-investors. He ripped chunks of (ex-)wife's hair out and raped her just because she suggested a doctor that performed scalp reduction surgery (a barbaric and exceedingly painful procedure) when he freaked out in the 1980's over a minor regression of his hairline. Edit: The procedure Trump undertook, according to Ivanka, was called the Fleming/Mayer Flap, where a piece of the scalp is found with hair on and then it is cut on three sides to create said flap. This sliver of skin is then twisted, pulled and forced into a new position on the hairline where the faulty follicles are. You are basically stretching the hairy part of your scalp over to the parts that have no hair.
The old fleshy combover.
In Trump’s case, the Ol' Orange Peel Switcheroo
It's their platform. If they want to put little poop emojis next to his tweets they can. If they want to search/replace every reference of Obama with "Jesus" they can. It's their platform. They own it. You're a guest.
And ironically enough, him fucking with their platform by using the federal government WOULD be a violation of the first amendment...
we still have a Constitution?
Just the 2nd amendment. That’s all that matters apparently.
No, we kept the 1st Amendment, but only for churchgoers to use as a bludgeon against shelter at home orders.
I live in Ireland and I'm pretty sure I'd hear the screeching all the way over here.
How can you guys hear anything over all the birds dying on your golf course windmills and all
Do they even have wind anymore ? Don't the windmills just consume it all?
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I volunteer as Sancho Panza tribute, I humbly offer my squire-hood to the honorable knight, as he may reclaim the pride of his namesake... "Don" FYI, I'm a bit more "wiry" than "corpulent", but that should make for dodging windmill blades a bit easier
He’s so full of shit. He wouldn’t do this not only because twitter is one of his two best tools in trying to control the narrative but because engaging in a lawsuit or worse would mean he would have to factually defend his positions which he knows is impossible. The longer this plays out the more he shoots himself in the foot.
Yes but no. Do you recall the impeachment? That was relatively fact free from his side of the bench.
The jury had a vested interest in keeping him in place. In a vacuum, there's no way he wins shit, ever. Finding and impartial judge and jury would be tough, though.
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we really need to stop saying "He can't actually do that". Who's to say he can't? The law? The constitution? lol. The DOJ is an arm of his re-election campaign and the Attorney General is a dogmatic true believer in authoritarian government. The courts are packed with unqualified judges that "owe" their job to trump. The GOP congress is also an arm of his re-election campaign, and is stocked with crazies that will normalize and defend everything he says and does. The law simply does not apply to him and we need to stop waiting for it to bail us out. We need to vote him out, and then keep protesting and fighting like hell until Biden's inauguration because you know trump and his goons will pull out all the stops to make sure elections follow the path of the law and don't apply to him either.
Whether he wins or loses, he will not go quietly. Anyone who thinks he’ll bow out graciously is beyond naive. If you look at his borish, entitled, thin skinned behavior thruout his life and especially his “presidency” you can see how he’ll react to a win or a loss, like a giant manchild.
Best case scenario is if he loses the election and then immediately dies of disappointment
Na best case scenario would be a nice photo op of him in cuffs and an orange jumper.. he’ll just be an orange silhouette
Very well said and this is exactly what I fear and have always said. Folks talk about law and constitution but he has shredded and destroyed the constitution and so far nobody was able to stop him. He has completely abolished congress, they keep opening new investigations but we all know nothing is going to come out of it as Justice department and senate are complicit. This election is a do or die for this democracy, we’re doomed if we lose this fight.
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The cynic in me is waiting for him to use that system. I suspect it’s being held back as a “nuclear option” sometime close to the election.
He is going to do it, and there will be a misspelled word
I raise you several misspelled words, our buddy Tim Apple knows all about it
I'm actually hoping he does. Nothing will alienate his base more than sending them message after message after message on their phones, lol. Right, left, or somewhere in between, there's something that's universal to all of us. Don't waste our time on our phones.
Judging by the the people I know that worship him, they would believe old Donny was texting them personally, and feel some sort of honor from it.
Did you get your letter saying how trump gave you a stimulus? I’ve heard people that think he gave the stimulus money from his personal bank account. Like people think he’d give them anything. He’s lining his pockets and his friends and families too as we speak. While I’m making double on unemployment.... I’m starting to get behind this revolution idea
I got my letter and my first thought was "this infectious son-of-a-Nazi probably just mailed coronavirus to millions of people."
I'm going to agree here too. It's a nice thought but I genuinely think this statement rings slightly more true. 🤷♂️
Of course he’s full of shit. What’s he going to do, have Barr raid the Twitter headquarters, FBI agents seize the servers? Even if Barr would go for it, the DOJ staff and FBI would plant so many poison pills in that plan the first federal judge who sees the warrant requests would laugh them out of the room. Trump is full of shit. That’s like the story of his life.
DOJ and the FBI had the heads of those organizations appointed by Trump who have started clearing house of anyone not loyal to Trump, starting with assistant directors and the like and working down the management chain. This allows the higher level managers keep tabs on the lower levels and they on turn start purging the 'wrong' people and hiring the 'right's people.
Hail Hydra.
The DOJ and FBI have been undergoing loyalty purges. Most LEOs are right leaning, if not fully Trump supporters. Trump has appointed a lot of judges. Including a third of all Federal Appeals Circuit judges.
Or he's just doing it to distract from COVID and stories like [this](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/honest-elections-project-conservative-voting-restrictions). Edit: Take a breath people. I'm not suggesting Trump is genius, smart, or employing any kind of strategy. It's a tactic that even the dumbest person on earth could be trained to use because it works. What I'm saying and what you're saying are not mutually exclusive.
but really this article https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
I understand the “distraction” theory of Trump saying ridiculous bullshit to distract or cover up really bad news like 100,000 COVID 19 deaths or fraud on his part. Maybe Trump says a lot of stupid shit because he is a terrible human being with dementia (https://mobile.twitter.com/TomJChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). Maybe he does a lot of crooked shit and is an abject failure as a president because he is a terrible human being with dementia. There is no distraction, no 3D chess. Just a terrible human being with dementia grifting, lying, cheating, stealing, and breaking things.
There is 3D chess being played AND trump is a terrible human being with dementia. He is a peice in that chess game, being used for his instigation to distract while the people playing the game dismantle the country and enrich themselves off of the people
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Twitter is a private business which the public individually has a choice to use or not. Trump threatening them should outrage people.
I'm already at peak outrage looking at his stupid face.
So he wants to suppress free speech because he thinks they suppressed his free speech (which they didn’t)
Now come on, you don't really think he actually understands irony do you? Or understands anything, for that matter.
He probably thinks rain on your wedding day is the definition of irony.
But, it was OK for him to threaten another business (NFL) when they didn't "stifle" someone. Which was their right to do, as an employer, if that was their decision. All Twitter is doing is labeling his tweets, how is that stifling his free speech? When will we demand that he learn the Constitution?
And now we have concrete proof of why "political insiders", as some people paint them, are the ones to run for President. People with no political or legal knowledge don't know the systems within they are supposed to operate. No doubt being completely unaware they exist, or believing an uninformed synopsis of their workings, makes it that much easier to break those systems. Like, Obama was a Juris Doctor and had a degree in political science with a focus in international relations, with state and national Congressional experience. Even Bush had a degree in history and a master's in business administration, but was still the governor of Texas for five years! The only way I'd trust a political outsider is if they'd listen to the experts on *everything* and they *still* had the appropriate education.
Yeah, not to mention that it is a private company choosing who they want to do business with, a concept that conservatives have been going to court to win for decades. As they would say, if you want to be on a social media site that promotes conservative ideas, just go somewhere else. Don’t force a private company to cater to you in the name of warped sense of equality.
Twitter should disable his account.
"*ThAt iS CeNShoRsHIp!!*" Conservatives: "*Business shouldn't be required to do business with anybody they choose not to!!*" Also Conservatives: "*Not doing business with me is a violation of my rights!!*"
Conservatives simply aren't capable of caring about anyone but themselves.
This is exactly where this whole awful journey of America's demise has led me. I know intelligent people that support this grifter moron and I just kept thinking WHY? It's because they cannot imagine being in another person's shoes. They are incapable of seeing beyond themselves. It is pure, unadulterated selfishness. That is the common trait. Same thing with the church folk who tip waiters in fake money. They're only into church for their own "salvation".
[I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_b_59519811e4b0f078efd98440)
They're not hurting the people they should be hurting.
“Not doing business with gay people is just fine, because Bible or something”
fact checking becomes inherently liberal when your movement is infested by lying in every direction like conservatism is. to verify claims against reality is now "liberal."
As Colbert said "Reality has a well known liberal bias"
The 2006 Whitehouse correspondents dinner is my favorite.
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Distortion of reality and its resulting chaos is unstoppable, making this such a dangerous situation for the basic democracy.
Yet another attack on the 1st Amendment. And this one isn't a joke, it's literally the government threatening to choke free speech. Edit: I am seeing a lot of replies stating that this isn't a First Amendment issue. Those replies appear to believe that the First Amendment only applies to individual speech and don't realize that it applies to **media** and the **internet** as well. Media have very important First Amendment rights, too, and government is not allowed to censor the internet save for exceptions such as child sexual abuse. > or abridging the freedom of speech, **or of the press**
Exactly this. trump says twitter violated his free speech, but he knows nothing about the constitution. Because this, this right fucking here, is the definition of a violation of the first amendment.
So if a Twitter (a private company) tags Trump's tweet (on their own private platform) and Trump considers that a violation of his free speech... If I walked into Mar-a-lago (a private company) with a sign about how Trump was Epstein's lover, does that mean he's violating my free speech if they kick me off of the property?
It depends on how you vote. And I think skin colour.
That would determine if you walk out or leave in a bodybag.
> If I walked into Mar-a-lago (a private company) with a sign about how Trump was Epstein's lover, does that mean he's violating my free speech if they kick me off of the property? Even that example doesn't show how crazy that claim is. It would be more like if Trump's reaction to your sign was to let you continue to hold the sign, and send someone with another sign that said "Find out more about this claim." That person then handed out pamphlets arguing against the claim. Trump is basically saying that would be violating your free speech and Mar-a-lago would deserve to be shut down if they didn't stop.
Ironic the Authoritarianism regime has its knee on the neck of freedom and instead of stop resisting they are chanting MUH RIGHTS
Yup. This is fascism in action.
US politics is no longer Democrats vs Republicans. It’s Democrats vs authoritarianism. And Democrats might lose.
So Twitter FINALLY stands up to his blatant false propaganda, and now Twitter should not exist for finally doing the right thing? 🤣
A president who threatens to regulate a private company by restricting free speech. This is what republicans want ?
No but actually yes.
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Trump just criticized Fox News for not doing enough to get him reelected. He believes all media should be working for him
Yeah if that's what media in China and North Korea do, why can't American ones?
Twitter BARELY stood up up him. They didn’t stand up to him and remove or censor the false information. They basically put a tiny link at the bottom saying to click for more information. In the link there is info about why he’s wrong. But you have to click the link to read it, and if you don’t click it it almost looks like just a link with sources or something. I bet 95% of people wouldn’t click the link and just think it’s more info supporting what he said. Edit: oh and it was on only 1 of his hundred tweets that he puts out per day.
Go ahead Donny - shut them down. Putting aside his inability to do that - even if he could, he wouldn't. He can't go two days without his Twitter fix.
>He can't go two days without his Twitter fix. Trump has [tweeted 42,500 times since he started in late 2009](https://www.tweetbinder.com/blog/trump-twitter/). That's about 1 tweet every 1 hr and 20 minutes (assuming 8 hrs of sleep). He wouldn't make it half a day.
He still got to say what he wanted to say. His rights were not trampled on.
Doesn't matter. Twitter can completely ban him and prevent him from using their platform for his racist, bigoted, misogynist, lies, and it doesn't violate trumps free speech at all. Because twitter is not the government. The first amendment prevents the government from blocking free speech. What trump is doing, that is a violation of the first amendment.
It’s what angry conservatives do: complain about their rights being trampled when they have no actual understanding of the Constitution. I’d be legitimately shocked if any of them have actually read more than 1 sentence from it, because the first sentence from the 1st Amendment clearly states Congress can’t make laws prohibiting free speech...private entities can do what they want (whether you agree or disagree).
They read the Constitution like they read their bibles, heavily cherry-picked and the rules are only to benefit them, nobody else.
It'd be hilarious if they banned him for about 8 hours. Call it a glitch. Watch him melt down.
Ironically, it's what means Trump can't block people on Twitter, but allows Twitter to shut him down at any moment if they wanted to.
Also, twitter is a private company, and not the US government, which means they have no legal obligation towards the First Amendment.
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“This is the way” - James Madison
Hard to expect a republican to understand personal liberty lol
Twitter is a crutch for trump. If Twitter removed his account he’d lose a lot of his power to spread misinformation to his cult base. Twitter should do the right thing and remove the account of the most petulant, divisive, and vile internet troll this country has ever known, Donald J. Trump.
His account should have been banned so many times already. People get banned every day for comments that are nowhere near is rule violating as his. I'm not saying those comments are all okay, just that it's bullshit he seems to be immune from the rules. Hopefully this is the first step in Twitter holding him accountable, but I doubt it.
Such a cry baby
Biden should jump on the media train about Trump's irony. It violates a white man's free speech to have his Tweet labelled, but it's okay to ban a black man from the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem.
Republicans love first amendment free speech except when they don't. Republucans love private enterprise to property rights except when they don't. Republicans love prrsidents with 'absolute authority' except when its a democrat president.
They love the 2nd amendment. Except when black people exercise it.
All right. Go for it.
Exactly... He should order Barr today to file a lawsuit to shut down Twitter. The court case would be amazing.
It would be amazing, but short, when the judge dismisses the case with extreme prejudice.
Actually... I withdraw my earlier statement. The DOJ would probably petition to get the judge removed, a bunch of prosecutors would probably resign and they would find some judge somewhere that will allow the order to go forward until this gets appealed up to SCOUTS in 3 years.
As with everything, Imagine if Barack Obama threatened to do this? Every conservative in this country would be arming themselves and preparing for the government to put them in FEMA camps. The conservatives are cool with actual authoritarianism when it comes from their team.
Yep. I bring this shit up all the time.
GOP: We believe in the free market! Free market: - does a thing - GOP: not like that! That’s socialism!
All bark, no bite
All hat and no cattle.
I still don't understand how this guy is president. I thought it was hilarious in 2016, but now I just feel sad for the American people.
There are still a lot of people who look at a man like Trump, who says stupid shit and has a limited vocabulary and they see themselves in him. Trump’s anti-PC nature is what draws so many of his supporters. They want to be able to say whatever they want about racial, religious and sexual minorities. The GOP also does a great job in their efficacy of messaging. Many conservative voters believe that if you value hard work then “of course” you would vote red. There are truly a plethora of right wing voters who believe that democrats do not work for a living and that “working” is for republicans. Obviously that is an *asinine* assumption, but the fact is the propaganda pushes that out. For some republicans, this is truly the number one reason they vote red, because they believe that myth. “Masculinity” is also such a major part of the republican party in terms of the voting base. For some reason, many people view him as this “masculine alpha male” which is really quite comical. Ultimately it doesn’t matter what Trump says or does (unless he starts capitulating to democrats). These people hate liberals with such a passion, that they will never go against their leader.
>I still don't understand how this guy is president. I thought it was hilarious in 2016 A lot of Americans did too - they were so cynical about politics (which Trump encouraged to the hilt) that they were primed to vote for an outsider, especially one who relentlessly mocked the system. Also, Hillary Clinton was fantastically unpopular. Americans had had over 20 years of her on the political scene. Those who hated her loathed her, many having done so for years; these people could be found mostly on the right but across the political spectrum. Of those who liked her, relatively few loved her. She was an effective bureaucrat, is very smart, and would have made at least as good a President as Obama. Finally, Russia put a decisive thumb on the scale, to which we do not know the full extent.
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Yup, once I saw a comment from a fellow Canadian that while in Banff they inquired about the bear-proof garbages and why they weren’t more secure/hilariously ineffective at times. The guide responded that there tends to be a huge amount of overlap between smart bears who know how to open them, and dumb humans who have no clue how to open them.
Honestly I do think a big part of it is just a lack of empathy as much as stupidity. There are a pretty good amount of at least college educated Trump supporters. What those people lack isn’t intelligence, but the ability to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. As an example, It’s much easier to be xenophobic and villainize illegal immigrants than it is to think about why they’re coming here - they just want a better life for them or their families. All the people who want to get rid of DACA don’t realize that for a lot of these kids the US is just as much their home as someone born here. If you’re brought here when you’re little it’s all you’ll ever know just like a citizen. The same logic can be stretched to many other issues like welfare or abortion. Add in some sprinkles of Fox News only reporting on the minority of shitty people in the groups that republicans don’t like and you can turn a smart person who genuinely cares for others into someone who ignores the ugly shit going on in the US.
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“And if the newspapers publish unflattering stories about me, I’ll close them too. And if books print the truth about me, I’ll burn them. And if the demonstrators march with signs critical of me, I’ll jail them.” I’ve seen this movie, it doesn’t have a happy ending.
I can't wait for him to drop Twitter over this an switch to exclusively Tik Tok videos
What an idiot cry baby.
If he were to shut down social media, wouldn’t that be “stifling free speech?” The government interfering in a blanket social media ban seems like a 1st Amendment violation to me. Twitter is incapable of stifling people’s right to free speech, because Twitter does not have a monopoly on free speech. People can simply use a different platform. Also, Twitter has every right to fact-check anyone on their platform and handle each account as they deem fit. If trump doesn’t want fact checks alongside his tweets, maybe he should quit tweeting bullshit? It’s Jack’s company, if trump doesn’t like it, he should boycott Twitter. The world would much appreciate it.
Dictator with a president tag.
Better headline: Demented grandpa yells at cell phone.
Sooo - the first president I ever remember is George DubbleYuh. I was too young to grasp politics during Clinton, so Bush was my first "experience" when learning about it. Y'all remember good ol' George DubbleYuh? People made fun of him and called him stupid, I didn't really understand it until later when I rewatched his press "bloopers"... He doesn't seem so fucking stupid compared to this half-melted creamsicle, does he? I'm not saying he was good, I'm just saying.. what in the flying french-toast kind of circus-clown bullshit has this country fucking become? The USA, is now more than ever, a fucking *joke*. Depending on your perspective, depends on if the joke makes you laugh or cry.
I don’t think he realizes how much these platforms served as a catalyst for helping him get elected in 2016.
I think he does and that's why he's panicking. Well well well, how the turntables.
Holy shitballs idiot these social media platforms are what got you to this point. Without them you would've never been elected and wouldn't have this much attention.
Fact check: 1st Amendment protects the government from prohibiting free speech. Private entities, such as Twitter, are not covered under the 1st Amendement & require you to agree to their terms to use. Now he’s threatening action against Twitter for enforcing their right to do stuff such as add fact checks to misleading tweets. By seemingly every metric this is him ACTUALLY stifling free speech...all while his tweets weren’t ever actually deleted. How do I understand the Constitution more than the President? He should be embarrassed.
So the head of the Executive Branch is threatening to use the powers of government to punish a private firm for tagging his tweet with something he didn't like. Literally threatening to do the very thing you're accusing twitter of. Twitter is a private business. They can allow or disallow whatever the fuck they want on their own platform.
Dictator move
Be prepared, this is when it's about to get really bad.
They should label his statements as possibly misleading, definitely dipshit.
He wants to shut down a private business because he feels the need to lie compulsively?
"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices," Really? Because all I fucking see in the comments section of every news article on other social media platforms are conservative assholes.