Which still means the appeal failed. 2-1 of a 3 panel sitting doesn’t necessarily mean “close” in court. Two of those judges could have been wholly immovable on the issue.
I don’t disagree with your assessment that it was an avoidable own-goal from the tweeter in chief.
No, it actually is a twitter feud. No policy, law, executive actions i.e. nothing of consequence happens on twitter.
The president has the right to free speech too, whether or you you like what he said or not as long as he’s not revealing national security data nor creating policy through it, he’s has every right to be ugly and mean on twitter, just like anybody else.
I am sure he gets back thousands of tweets calling him all kinds of names, getting death threats, and having his family picked on too.
Nevertheless, it’s silly to cover a ‘twitter war’ to the level it has been covered.
Why would it be silly to cover a presidents preferred method of communication with his constituents?
Would it have been absurd to cover an Obama press conference? Why does the avenue of his method impact whether or not it’s covered? He’s the one that picked Twitter, right?
Anyone have a meme generator? Just a pic of trump in the oval with the caption “Made by Twitter, thanks a lot Jack.”
Not according to the military.
I only said this:
I didn’t say don’t cover it, just don’t cover it so much I am sick of hearing about it.
Imagine how much more you’d have seen it if you watched any news networks or even used Twitter.
I would throw my phone if I were on the twitter.
If you have a problem with the president and Twitter, maybe you should blame the president and not everyone but him. The idea that the news should ignore what the presidents says in public is nonsensical. Just because it’s Twitter doesn’t mean he didn’t “really” say it. You need to accept that your president relates to the world like a teenage girl (which, given his love for young females, kind of makes sense).
Oh, no one is saying he can’t say whatever he wants - what we’re judging is impact and appropriateness, given that he’s not making these comments as a private citizen.
And how do I know you’d agree with me if you weren’t in full blind defense mode of Trump? Imagine a hypothetical where Obama tweeted out, for example, select quotes from Das Kapital from Marx. Or saying he thinks babies should be aborted in their fourth trimester. Would you be taking the line of “meh, just Obama chattin’ it up on Twitter, meaningless, not policy or executive action, nothing to see here”? Hell no - you know it and I know it.
In Trump, we have an American president engaging in bigoted and un-American speech from his bully pulpit. It isn’t a private citizen blabbing about whatever.
True he does, but that does not mean he is immune to the consequences of that speech. And being the president, he is held in higher regard (and should be) than most.
If the President didn’t use Twitter solely to treat others like shit it wouldn’t be covered. The answer to not covering it could start the minute Trump becomes a decent human.
Instead of wondering why it’s being covered you should start with who got it covered in the first place. Our pre teen President being on Twitter 24/7.
This might be better suited in the “…Makes you chuckle” thread…
Could Trump be a decent person for one minute?
I don’t disagree that he should quit saying stupid things on twitter. As a matter of fact I wish he would quit saying things on twitter and quit twitter all together. Twitter might hate that, but I wouldn’t.
I have accepted the fact that he blew up what understand the traditional decorum of the Presidency. It why I wasn’t thrilled about him in the first place. But there is no replacement. Give me a person who has an actual chance of winning and supports most closely the same policies I support, will vote for that guy or girl.
I am stuck with Trump, the only 2 democrats I like have no shot in hell of winning and I don’t like them that much, saved that they are thoughtful and principled and obviously intelligent.
It’s not a blind support or love. But he’s getting things done that I want done…
Yeah, the MSM is gladly doing his bidding… I agree.
You know how they never show the streaker on TV during a baseball game, that’s a better angle to take.
You don’t really think they’d refrain from showing a naked guy if it wasn’t against the rules do you?
That shit would be ratings gold. ESPN top 10 for sure
Nakedness aside, it is policy (not sure set by who) to not show, on live TV, any person who jumps onto the field to disrupt a game. This has been true for a while now.
I think you’re both missing the point.
This is a 2020 politics thread, there is no point.