US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

Let's take a quick look at the current status of this years Presidential Election campaign

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1265267329857978369

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1265091149435416581

Shocking that you can boost a person when they write a book defending the internment of Japanese-Americans (as a way of justifying post-9/11 racial profiling), and then years later they become Bad. Just no way to see this coming.

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1264993857613164544

[Joe Molotov]

What's to hate?

[stufte]

So they get to own the libs, libs get a non zero chance of someone they disagree with politically being removed from the gene pool. It's win/win.

[Transhuman]

https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1265091149435416581

Shocking that you can boost a person when they write a book defending the internment of Japanese-Americans (as a way of justifying post-9/11 racial profiling), and then years later they become Bad. Just no way to see this coming.

She thinks Daniel Holtzclaw is innocent too

[Mandark]

If he fucking hates it here because the guys are pointing guns at their dicks.... Doesn't that mean they successfully triggered him?

lib owned

If there were ever a situation which demanded a literal "trigger warning..."

[Mandark]

She thinks Daniel Holtzclaw is innocent too

Yes! I checked her twitter and posted that a few months ago.

It's such an insane hill to die on. Like being a Jerry Sandusky truther.

[Joe Molotov]

it reminds me of that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Raymond forgets Debra's birthday and he has shoot his own dick off

[Nintex]

I can't read all the replies, but has anyone else noticed that one of these fucking super geniuses was going 65 mph with no hands on the steering wheel when he took this photo?

This is called priming the pump

These people all look very responsible to me.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I dont think raymond had a pickup

[Great Rumbler]

She thinks Daniel Holtzclaw is innocent too

Yes! I checked her twitter and posted that a few months ago.

It's such an insane hill to die on. Like being a Jerry Sandusky truther.

They're the kind of people who fly thin blue line flags and have "Blue Lives Matter" bumper stickers, so is it really all that surprising?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SpectatorUSA/status/1265353257003687937

 

[Joe Molotov]

"Sorry for putting you ladies on the spot, here's an old white guy VP pick instead." 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[Mandark]

beginning to suspect the conservative writer is not actually worried on behalf of feminism

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1265076598476288001

 

[Nintex]

Sounds like a sort of Cheney situation. Looking for a VP only to find yourself 

[BisMarckie]

https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1265076598476288001

 

Learning from Trump about getting advice from crooked former mayors.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ECLMiller/status/1264953308231413760

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1265260511253237760

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1265402997858873345

 

[Phoenix Dark]

Why not ban him from twitter? It's impossible to de-plaform the president, who can hold daily "news" conferences and be picked up live by every network. This strikes me as a perfect example of something where half measures hurts you. They slapped fact checking warnings on his tweets today and he accused them of bias/censorship. If you ban him, what's the difference in terms of the shit you take? Might as well say fuck it and go all the way. 24 hour ban, week ban, whatever.

[curly]

Even better would be to ban twitter

[Mandark]

Careening towards a timeline where the president of the United States starts a gab account.

[Positive Touch]

jack loves trump too much to ever ban him. more than that, the media is too up their ass about conservatism being "real america" to ever push back on it. they'll become government arms before they ever consider taking a strong stance against the right.

[Positive Touch]

Careening towards a timeline where the president of the United States starts a gab account.

imagining a future where all phones have a pre-installed app that that automatically plays fuhrer trump's morning screeds

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1265423165527859200

son of a

[Akala]

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

the mandark twitter receipt ouroboros looping back to fact check himself

[ToxicAdam]

TIL being the president is like being the wedding DJ.

[benjipwns]

stost proven correct yet again

[benjipwns]

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that her husband made a failed attempt at humor last week when he asked a boat contractor whether his status as Michigan's "First Gentleman" would help him get his boat in the water ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

"He thought it might get a laugh," Whitmer said of her husband, dentist Marc Mallory.

"It didn't, and to be honest I wasn't laughing either when it was relayed to me because I knew how it would be perceived."

She said the controversy was the result of "a failed attempt at humor."

Whitmer said her husband regrets what he said and she called on Michiganders to show kindness and empathy as the state deals with the COVID-19 pandemic that will be around for some time.

Earlier, Whitmer's office would not comment on whether Mallory cited his unique status when he contacted NorthShore Dock LLC, north of Traverse City, before the Memorial Day holiday.

"We’re not going to make it a practice of addressing every rumor that is spread online," Whitmer spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Monday.

State Sen. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, said Monday that he felt he unknowingly became part of a cover-up of the incident, having removed his Facebook post about the incident Friday night after officials in Whitmer's office reached out to him through the Senate Republican leader's office to say the allegations made by an owner of the boat company were untrue.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265466874583711758

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265427539008380928
POTUS is shit posting again

[Nintex]

Trump thinks he is thor now

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265612405784162304

[kingv]

Why not ban him from twitter? It's impossible to de-plaform the president, who can hold daily "news" conferences and be picked up live by every network. This strikes me as a perfect example of something where half measures hurts you. They slapped fact checking warnings on his tweets today and he accused them of bias/censorship. If you ban him, what's the difference in terms of the shit you take? Might as well say fuck it and go all the way. 24 hour ban, week ban, whatever.

Agreed. Also I want to see the inevitable press conference where he goes on tv to whine about catching a ban on twitter.

[Tasty]

imagine losing to trump in 2020

imagine losing to biden in 202-

wait...

Rigged losses are not comparable to real losses.

[Tasty]

stost proven correct yet again

COPYIRGHT INFRINGMENT

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1265338098256424973

was just watching tales from da loop ep about black gay nerdy birder 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/PineyMcknuckle/status/1265673728186355713

someone call pelosi!

[BIONIC]

Poopy Joe!!

[Pissy F Benny]

Joe Biden probably shits himself often enough that he knows how to no sell it at this point, unless you get close to him and smell some nastiness you’ll never know

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/dongttebayo/status/1265675419765727232

[Nintex]

Mr. Biden what did you do today?
"Well after I adjusted my record player to the right channel I shat my pants on a TV interview"

Mr. Trump what did you do today?
"I told my pilot to do a fly by of the Kennedy Space Center launch pad where I am going to watch the launch of a new rocket with Elon Musk while rage tweeting in my seat"

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1265718080887455745

[stufte]

Of COURSE Trump and his MAGATS don't understand what freedom of speech is. Of course. lol.

[Mandark]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/coronavirus-stimulus-mitch-mcconnell-discusses-congress-relief-bill.html

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/coronavirus-stimulus-mitch-mcconnell-discusses-congress-relief-bill.html

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1265442093641732096

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265601611310739456

BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT, BREAK UP TWITTER/GOOGLE/FACEBOOK AND MAKE THEM PUBLIC UTILITIES

[Great Rumbler]

I'd strongly prefer Twitter ceding ground to Trump than accelerating whatever trend started in 2008 polarizing all of society into mutually disjoint universes

Oh, don't worry, we'll get both of those things.

[Pissy F Benny]

Kill Jack Dorsey and donald Trump, problem solved

[Nintex]

If Trump shuts down social media he will flush the big advantage he has over Joe Biden down the tubes and we might actually have an actual race.
Also all the money I'd earn from people desperate for alternative methods of online advertising 

Do it you coward

[jakefromstatefarm]

kill them too

[benjipwns]

BIPARTISAN!!!!

https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1265673107823616000

During the campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) urged Twitter to kick Trump off its site, at the time I thought that was frivolous and unwise. Now I’ve come to the conclusion her proposal does not go far enough. Twitter has monetized hate speech, misinformation and other forms of speech that legitimate media do not propagate because they fear being sued. Twitter’s financial success depends on maximizing users; it hurts its bottom line to remove thousands (maybe millions) of users whose tweets do not manage to abide by Twitter’s terms of service. The problem is not only Trump but the legal cocoon in which Twitter and other social media companies are allowed to operate. (Worse, Twitter purveys terms of service that it does not enforce, in effect falsely advertising itself as a responsible actor.)

Taxpayers, by extending protection from liability to Twitter, subsidize a morally reprehensible business model. Taking away the protection is not censorship of Twitter; it is leveling of the playing field that works not only to shield Twitter from legal responsibility but, because of that exemption, promotes the worst misinformation and hate speech in the media universe.

The retort to holding Twitter accountable for policing itself is that Twitter becomes a “censor," conveniently forgetting that Twitter claims to be a private company (not a regulated utility). That does not fly. Twitter should not to be confused with a government entity that could not legally remove objectionable speech on Twitter.

Well, the argument goes, how would Twitter decide which of Trump’s tweets to block or which user to banish? Let’s not overthink this. Let Twitter operate by the same rules as traditional media. No more protection from lawsuits. Let Twitter figure out which tweets it wants to be legally responsible for and which will leave it open to legal attack. In the nongovernmental sector, it should bear the badge of purveyor of hate speech from groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Surely, this is something on which both the left and right can agree.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'd strongly prefer Twitter ceding ground to Trump than accelerating whatever trend started in 2008 polarizing all of society into mutually disjoint universes... although I don't know if anyone has a choice. Seems like the kind of thing that the longue duree gets to decide.

Like it won't just become more polarized anyways.  You can't have a president who can't tell a truth and not become more polarized. 

[benjipwns]

 

[Joe Molotov]

I hope Twitter shuts down and Trump has to post on grubhub or whatever the conservative twitter is.

[CatsCatsCats]

I hope Twitter shuts down and Trump just starts posting directly to the bire

[stufte]

How in the world would Trump "shut down" social media companies?  Under what legal authority?

His twitter cronies keep referencing "Section 230", but it seems that section of the communications decency act only covers platforms from being legally held responsible for the content that they host.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

[benjipwns]

eliminating Section 230 has been a long term bipartisan goal, from this January:

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden called for the internet industry’s sweeping legal immunity over user-generated content to be “immediately” removed in an interview published today, escalating the political attacks on a much-debated segment of internet law that companies are already fighting to defend.

During an interview with The New York Times editorial board, Biden singled out Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg as targets that should be “submitted to civil liability” over posts on the social network. He lashed out at the tech giant and its chief for “propagating falsehoods they know to be false.”

The former vice president said Facebook and other companies should no longer receive protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 law that shields digital services firms from lawsuits over user posts and over good faith efforts to remove harmful material.

"It should be revoked. It should be revoked because [Facebook] is not merely an internet company," Biden said, adding that the social network should be subject to the same legal scrutiny as news organizations.

The comments mark the first time a 2020 presidential candidate has called for the liability shield to be struck down. In November, Biden said “we should be considering taking away” Section 230, and several other 2020 candidates have called for the statute to be reworked.

[stufte]

Even if Section 230 were removed, that doesn't suddenly make Twitter in violation of any known law for adding context to Trumps moronic tweets. They can censor anyone they want (they didn't in Trumps case), it's their platform.

[benjipwns]

The removal of Section 230 is the threat. Getting rid of it would destroy Twitter.

[stufte]

That's the thing. If Twitter can suddenly be legally liable for the content that is posted on their site, Trump will almost assuredly lose his ability to post there. They would have more to lose by letting people like him stay on the platform.