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24th May 2020, 04:36 PM | #201 |
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24th May 2020, 04:49 PM | #202 |
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Yes, but this was in response to Trump thinking about starting a committee to investigate anti-conservative bias in social media. If a government sponsored panel starts suggesting that certain tweets or certain account holders be suppressed, that's pretty clearly a violation of the first amendment, even if Twitter et al. go along with their plans. I think it's been well-established that a third party violating your rights on behalf of the government is still unconstitutional. |
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24th May 2020, 05:16 PM | #203 |
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@OhNoSheTwitnt Tweeted: Trump and Ann Coulter are fighting about Jeff Sessions like a soon to be divorced couple arguing over who gets custody of racism. |
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24th May 2020, 05:55 PM | #204 |
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I remember seeing a documentary in which an elderly German soldier was talking about the end of the war. He had been captured by the Allies and at one point he and his unit were shown film of the liberation of the concentration camps. At the time, he and his friends had laughed, insisting that they were being shown fake footage staged by the Allies to make Germany look bad. Fake news. The more things change, the more they stay the same. |
24th May 2020, 06:06 PM | #205 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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24th May 2020, 06:09 PM | #206 |
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24th May 2020, 06:15 PM | #207 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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24th May 2020, 06:41 PM | #208 |
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24th May 2020, 06:43 PM | #209 |
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The problem is he continues to get away with everything. No consequences for anything.
I would love to see Bezos buy the USPS and tell the Trump campaign we don't feel like mailing your crap out. Or Twitter just shut him down. He absolutely HAS to have violated Twitters user agreement. |
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24th May 2020, 06:45 PM | #210 |
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24th May 2020, 06:55 PM | #211 |
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24th May 2020, 07:04 PM | #212 |
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He has. Continually. This was actually something that was being poked at a bunch early in his Presidency. Twitter acknowledged it, too, while also pointing out that they were in an interesting situation because Trump was significantly increasing the usage of Twitter in general.
So they've continued to favor profits over upholding the rules when it comes to Trump. |
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24th May 2020, 07:09 PM | #213 |
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24th May 2020, 07:30 PM | #214 |
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24th May 2020, 08:12 PM | #215 |
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24th May 2020, 10:15 PM | #216 |
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Suspending him (I'm not even going to think about a ban) would activate the base. It'd be evidence of the elite media conspiring against Republicans to throw the election to Biden. They want to "silence" the president. It doesn't matter that their arguments are utterly inhecorent.
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24th May 2020, 10:37 PM | #217 |
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Plus there's an old saying, "better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt".
I want to see Trump's tweets, the more the better. At a minimum it gives us an insight to what he really thinks, and something to laugh about. Hopefully it will also help turn people away from him and convince them that he needs to be removed. |
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24th May 2020, 10:47 PM | #218 |
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24th May 2020, 11:57 PM | #219 |
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25th May 2020, 12:25 AM | #220 |
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25th May 2020, 12:39 AM | #221 |
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...wow
I mean... I know she is a self-serving hard-right anti-Semitic anti-vaxx skank. But she is not altogether foolish. So such a display of wokeness over Jeff Session could only mean one thing...either she has a new book coming out soon, or she has given up tagging along with the blithering idiots and now doesn't want to go down with the rapidly sinking Trump ship. Or both. |
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25th May 2020, 12:46 AM | #222 |
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Coulter can see a post-Trump world.
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25th May 2020, 01:20 AM | #223 |
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25th May 2020, 02:28 AM | #224 |
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25th May 2020, 02:38 AM | #227 |
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25th May 2020, 02:39 AM | #228 |
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It’s all part of the librul bias of social media! Trump types, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”, and it comes out on Twitter like, “Sleepy Joe OBAMAGATE losers covfefe FAKE NEWS...” |
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25th May 2020, 02:42 AM | #229 |
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25th May 2020, 02:47 AM | #230 |
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Trump Tweets
Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available. I give, and have given from the beginning, my entire yearly salary, $400,000 to $450,000, back to our government. Last check to HHS Covid relief. My great honor! |
25th May 2020, 02:51 AM | #231 |
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Having the G7 meeting in Washington is very important for those countries, and the World! Quote Tweet Mark Knoller @markknoller On @FaceTheNation, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien says "so far we've had a great response," to Pres Trump's invitation to G7 leaders to meet in Washington at the end of June. "We'll make sure that it's a safe environment," O'Brien tells @margbrennan. |
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Sleepy Joe’s representatives have just put out an ad saying that I went to play golf (exercise) today. They think I should stay in the White House at all times. What they didn’t say is that it’s the first time I’ve played golf in almost 3 months, that Biden was constantly..... ...vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals with other countries, & that Barack was always playing golf, doing much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii - Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the gruesome death of a great young man by ISIS! |
25th May 2020, 02:54 AM | #233 |
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Why? (Assume it's true for the sake of this question.)
Really, what was Obama supposed to do after the deed was done? Don sackcloth and ashes? Not exactly a parallel situation, but what's wrong with Trump playing golf? After all, he spends hours watching TV so exchanging that for some golf doesn't seem like much of a loss of leadership. Even supposing he was a competent president (I know, I know. Just go with me here.) he would spend much of his day on other matters anyway. At very high levels in any organization, leaders do not have the luxury of single mindedness on any one issue. Finally, on Trump as he is, there is so very much more that is so very much worse that I don't give a **** that he played some golf. |
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A disgrace. Total corruption! Quote Tweet Sara A. Carter @SaraCarterDC This is What '#QuidProQuo' with #Ukraine looks like Please retweet this video so everyone of your friends can watch it $1Billion in Aid was held so a prosecutor be fired #JoeBiden in his own words says that Ukrainians did not believe him...'Call #BarackObama' he said #DontForget https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/sta...25884531691521 (video in link) |
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The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! OBAMAGATE! |
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25th May 2020, 05:13 AM | #237 |
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Yes, schools generally are full of very good information. Clearly that is something you failed to take on board when your daddy bought you out of Wharton.
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25th May 2020, 06:29 AM | #238 |
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I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop but so far trump has not fired back. I'm sure he must be ranting about her in private. Of course, trump has already been reported as being angry with -- and has struck back at -- Fox News over their latest polling. Fox News link to poll
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