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Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' (thehill.com) 354

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: President Trump blasted Twitter's "trending" section in a Monday tweet, calling it "really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!" "So disgusting to watch Twitter's so-called 'Trending', where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one," Trump posted. "They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend," he added.

The president's relationship with Twitter, where he often turns to speak directly to supporters, has grown more contentious in recent months. The social media platform put warnings and fact checks on two of Trump's posts in May about mail-in voting, saying the tweets contained "potentially misleading information." Twitter also added an advisory to one of Trump's June tweets, which threatened demonstrators who want to create an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C. The advisory said the tweet broke Twitter's rules about abusive behavior and threatening violence. The president sought to fight back in May, issuing an executive order intended to strip social media platforms of certain legal protections, though experts say the order is largely toothless and stands on shaky legal ground.

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Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!'

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  • by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:01AM (#60338533)

    Nothing else. If they find tons of bad stuff, then maybe there _is_ tons of bad stuff? What a failed human being...

    • by Ly4 ( 2353328 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:17AM (#60338589)

      He invented a plan to throw out a pitch at a baseball game because he was jealous of the attention Fauci was getting. It's simply insane.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0... [nytimes.com]

      • by Nidi62 ( 1525137 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:27AM (#60338619)

        He invented a plan to throw out a pitch at a baseball game because he was jealous of the attention Fauci was getting. It's simply insane.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0... [nytimes.com]

        Hey, hey, let's be fair here. Like any responsible president, Trump also cancelled his upcoming first pitch appearance so that he could focus on ignoring the Covid pandemic.

        • by gtall ( 79522 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:34AM (#60338649)

          I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.

          His reason is something like this: if I do nothing, then it is someone else's fault (Chinese, Democratic governors, whatever...). However, if I do something and it fails, then I look even worse. If I do something and it succeeds, then I'm a genius....now if only I could think of something to do that doesn't make my base think I'm taking the pandemic seriously after I told them it was fake news. Damn, I ain't got squat. Okay, according to OUR data, the pandemic, which really doesn't exist, is getting better! I've put my best people on it...Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Dr. Phil, etc.

          • by Nidi62 ( 1525137 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:40AM (#60338665)

            I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.

            His reason is something like this: if I do nothing, then it is someone else's fault (Chinese, Democratic governors, whatever...). However, if I do something and it fails, then I look even worse. If I do something and it succeeds, then I'm a genius....now if only I could think of something to do that doesn't make my base think I'm taking the pandemic seriously after I told them it was fake news. Damn, I ain't got squat. Okay, according to OUR data, the pandemic, which really doesn't exist, is getting better! I've put my best people on it...Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Dr. Phil, etc.

            No, he is ignoring the pandemic. He is obsessing over how people think he is handling the pandemic. He's all PR, no substance, just like any reality TV persona.

          • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:04AM (#60338757)

            I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.

            I think they have a pretty good idea of what to do, but he doesn't like the answer so he refuses to accept it.

            • by AleRunner ( 4556245 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:39AM (#60338899)

              I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.

              I think they have a pretty good idea of what to do, but he doesn't like the answer so he refuses to accept it.

              This (why post anon - it's pushing down what's a completely sensible answer). The answer has been clear since February when the WHO stated it. Clearer even earlier if you listened to Taiwan:

              • * legally enforced mask wearing wherever people may be together indoors or closer than 2m
              • * creation of a standard federal level contact tracing app using the Apple/Google Exposure Notification system
              • * testing with a rapid turn around to identify who is ill
              • * contact tracing to identify who might be infected
              • * legally mandated quarantine for anyone found to be in the last two categories
              • * reduced mobility and contact (social distancing / lockdowns / closures) wherever there is too much infection for contact
              • * variable maximum social meeting size, in terms of households, from 100 in states where everything is in control down to just one where things are completely failing

              You switch on and off these measures to ensure that the level of infection is constantly falling. If infections go below about 1 in a million you can almost completely stop them except for mask wearing and social distancing in indoor public spaces and ensuring you have an ongoing widespread random and entry testing program.

              Trump does not have complete powers to enforce all of the above in all situations but he doesn't need them. He can say that this is his standard and encourage all states to follow it with money and support. Trump can likely enforce restrictions on inter-state travel for those that do not follow a standard at least as good as this. He can insist on quarantine of people coming into the US or travelling from a state which does not follow these standards.

          • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

            by gweihir ( 88907 )

            I do not agree, he is not ignoring the pandemic, he's obsessing over it. He and his alleged administration simply have no idea what to do about it.

            Pretty much. Also, the idea that this is not a game and he may be indirectly responsible for 100k casualties or so now (and counting) by his actions (compared to what other countries with somewhat competent leadership have achieved) is probably way beyond his mental capabilities. Of course, one Donald winning an election is way more important than 100k lives. Makes me think this guy does not understand honor or duty or responsibility at all.

          • he keeps saying that if we don't test we'd have fewer cases, that it will just go away and told us to learn to live with it [nymag.com].

            Trump did everything he could to make us pretend the Corona virus isn't a thing. But the bodies keep piling up, the hospitals are full to the point where Texas has death panels [theguardian.com] and even mild cases of the virus have been linked to brain damage [cnn.com], to say nothing of the 20% hospitalization rate and the long term health effects for that 20%.

            Trump tried, oh God he tried. But you can o
        • Dude, let's be fair, he invited 13 Little League players from Pennsylvannia to come play catch with him and Mariano Rivera on the White House lawn [pennlive.com] and got ESPN to broadcast it before Fauci's first pitch all because he was so butthurt about Fauci. No masks, minimal distancing [youtube.com]. I mean it's not like kids vote anyway.
      • by Darinbob ( 1142669 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:43AM (#60338679)

        I am totally baffled by the sudden conservative backlash against Fauci. He's been staying out of politics, never bad mouthing anyone not even the president, and yet he gets turned on. He's being turned in to the demon who has shut down the schools even though he has no such power, the feds don't even have that power, and he's only giving advice. Now he gets lambasted by prominent conservatives because the 79 year old can't throw a baseball over home plate. I even have some facebook friends who haven't posted in months and who've never posted anything political resharing posts critical of him. It's amazing what people will do when Trump's ego feels slightly bruised. You can forgive Trump for being a man child with a personality disorder who can't help himself, but the toadying around him is repulsive.

        • by Baloo Uriza ( 1582831 ) <baloo@ursamundi.org> on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:52AM (#60338715) Homepage Journal
          It's because he won't just be Trump's lapdog and tell everybody to go back to work, the economy needs your blood as grease.
          • by AvitarX ( 172628 )
            What irritates me is the false dichotomy between economy and health/safety.

            Enough people will be concerned about the virus to have a substantial impact on the economy whatever the government does (mobility rates dropped dramatically before any mandates to shelter in place).

            The best thing for capitalism and the economy is to dramatically reduce the number of people with the virus (which was done to a point in the US, and quite well in much of the world), and then to have coordinated contact tracing to keep l
        • Simply by existing, he makes Trump look like the idiot he is. Therefore he must be destroyed.

        • by smooth wombat ( 796938 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:39AM (#60339481) Journal
          I am totally baffled by the sudden conservative backlash against Fauci.

          Because he tells the truth.

          Because he's educated.

          Because he gives out facts.

          Because he doesn't play politics.

          Because he speaks well.

          Because he leads by example [sciencemag.org].

          The list goes on and on. Fauci is the literal opposite of what conservatives want.
        • by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:27PM (#60340147)

          Well, at his core, Fauci is a man of Science. That means he places facts and reality over political considerations when it really matters because he actually understands that physical reality does not bow to politics. And that is diametrically at odds with the world-view fuckups like Trump have. I mean, if Trump had not got so much money from his father that it was really difficult to waste it all (he seems to have managed anyways, just took a long time), he would never have amounted to anything. Trump would probably not even have managed to get a college-degree. The guy is borderline illiterate.

          There is no bridging such a gap. Trump essentially has to bow to Fauci, because Trump has nothing to offer. It is like a cave-man against a rocket-scientist. And that, like any Dunning-Kruger far-left case, is not something Trump is even equipped to understand. One of the absolute core requirements for a good leader is a real understanding of one's own limits. And that is likely why Trump never had it in him to be a good leader.

    • by Joce640k ( 829181 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:20AM (#60338831) Homepage

      What a failed human being...

      Look up the clinical definition of "narcissist":

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

      That's Trump to a 'T'.

  • Watch Trump talk. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Futurepower(R) ( 558542 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:07AM (#60338551) Homepage
    President Trump's statements [youtube.com] show he doesn't understand.
    • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:12AM (#60339039)
      Seriously. If you read what Trump says verbatim, without his cadence and charisma to cover up his shortcomings, it's insane.
      • by smoot123 ( 1027084 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:12PM (#60340075)

        Seriously. If you read what Trump says verbatim, without his cadence and charisma to cover up his shortcomings, it's insane.

        His cadence improves his words? I can't stand to listen to the man because I hate his speaking style.

        His charisma? To quote Ford Prefect, "he's got all the sex appeal of a road accident." I'm stunned anyone thinks otherwise. Go figure.

        • you spent years seeing him play the part of a shrewd businessman. It's not surprising he's got so many hard core supporters, they can't divorce the part he played on TV from the reality of a 6 time bankrupt con man who's lost multiple lawsuits (Trump University anyone?) and who is only still wealthy because his bankers and creditors let him keep being rich in the hopes of getting some money out of his brand (and because we don't punish wealthy people in America).

          That TV show is the part everybody misses
      • by Areyoukiddingme ( 1289470 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:30PM (#60340155)

        Seriously. If you read what Trump says verbatim, without his cadence and charisma to cover up his shortcomings, it's insane.

        Cadence and charisma? That's one thing I will never understand. That anybody thinks Trump possesses more than miniscule quantities of public speaking ability or charisma. Yes reading his words verbatim makes it worse, especially if the transcription includes all the filler words and monosyllables, but listening to him is plenty bad too. He's a terrible public speaker. His cadence is bizarre at the best of times, his volume control is almost completely arbitrary, his emphasis shows up in weird places in sentences, and his ad libbed repetition of phrases when he's using a teleprompter make a hash out of any cadence the speechwriter was attempting to put in. Basically he has all the symptoms of a bullshit artist in full cry, a type of speaker I learned to recognize as an early teen, dealing with my parents' landlord. I don't even have to focus on the words to know it's bullshit. His delivery says, "Every word of this is bullshit," to anyone who knows the type.

  • Well, leave then. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Shotgun ( 30919 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:10AM (#60338563)

    As a conservative, I have to ask,

    "What the fuck, Trump?! Leave Twitter, already. There are alternatives. All the journalists will follow you, and that will hit Twitter where it really hurts. . . reputational importance."

    I can only figure that he and his campaign think that the "Twitter Fights" will "energize the base". He should know. At this point it doesn't. A true conservative understands that you look to yourself for help first, and Trump can just fix this all himself by switching to Parley or one of the other competitors. He be seen as much stronger if he'd do that, instead of the constant whining.

    • by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:20AM (#60338597) Journal

      The problem is that Trump isn't a Conservative. At best he's a reactionary, but I don't think he possesses a coherent enough world view to even be able to say he's that. He's just a self-entitled old man who has never really had to lift a finger his entire life, and has spent most of that life in a world of affluence and entitlement that he somehow just expects that the world is supposed to function as he decrees.

      Let's face it. Most Republican lawmakers want him gone. A few establishment Republicans like Romney openly want the man to lose, while I suspect many more, who need to look like they're onboard to satisfy the base, privately just want him to go away. Biden, Democrat that he is, is actually a lot closer to a conservative candidate than Trump will ever be.

      • The problem is that Trump isn't a Conservative. At best he's a reactionary

        Looking at the GOP's platform [gop.com], what's the difference?

        • "A Rebirth of Constitutional Government"

          I think Trump's most famous quote is, as president, he can do whatever he wants. When you are sworn in to office as president, your oath isn't to protect the citizens, or help the needy, or uphold the rule of law. It's to defend the constitution. That's the president's main job, to defend the constitutional rights of the citizens of the US. I don't think Trump cares too much about the constitution. Like many presidents, his main concern is how to get around the consti

      • by Darinbob ( 1142669 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:01AM (#60338749)

        Agreed. He's not conservative so I was baffled when he started pulling ahead in the primaries, and then amazed when he won the nomination, then dumbfounded when republicans switched staces and rallied around him then accused those who didn't as not being real conservatives. Trump is not fiscally conservative, and he's not socially conservative. He doesn't fit into any political ideology except populism, using the divide and conquer strategy from within.

        • by RyanFenton ( 230700 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:46AM (#60339505)

          No.

          He is what conservative is now in the USA - and likely will be for quite a while now.

          Conservative never meant the same thing outside the US than it meant inside the US - so why can't it just change based on power dynamics?

          It can - and it does, every generation.

          This generation though, it turned into, well, Trump - Trump as the ideal, Trump as the goal, Trump as the justification. Every other thing was abandoned - and it's going to be hell to try and redefine it to something coherent afterward, if that's what is important at all.

          The reason of course was to piss off your enemies, which I suppose worked. But now that Trump IS conservatism, the only next move will be to pick a son to shift ideals towards, like with George W. Bush (or Kim Jong Il).

          That'll be a fascinating puzzle.

          Ryan Fenton

      • ... and has spent most of that life in a world of affluence and entitlement that he somehow just expects that the world is supposed to function as he decrees.

        Yes, indeed. Also, now the stakes are much higher. When Trump was just some real estate magnate, running around and dealing with buildings and casinos, he could make shit up, and the repercussions were on him, his company, and the people who were associated somehow with the properties. Anyone who he employed had a duty to him and his companies, or

        • Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Informative)

          by Darinbob ( 1142669 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:00AM (#60339299)

          Remember, Trump's coming out into the public policy arena was way back in 1989 when he put out a full page ad in multiple newspapers demanding the death penalty for the Central Park Five, four of whom were juveniles, all of whom were later determined to be innocent. This is classic Trump: no knowledge of the case, yet insists that the whole city knows his opinions on the matter, demands an over-the-top law and order sentence, and he ends up getting it wrong. He has never apologized for this.

          • More than not apologized, after they were found innocent he continued to say they should be executed because he was "sure they were guilty of something"

            Almost as though he was more interested in killing black people than justice - you'd almost expect to discover his father was a member of the KKK or something...

      • by Sique ( 173459 )
        His former grey eminence, Stephen Bannon, is even the total anti-thesis to a conservative, because his mantra is: Don't conserve anything! Break it, and from the ashes will rise a new, better world. People, who see their world in shatters anyway, like those theses, and thus Donald Trump gets elected mostly by people who fear the future. You can actually find a very strong correlation [nih.gov] for instance between opioid prescriptions and Trump voters.
        • Re:Well, leave then. (Score:5, Informative)

          by omnichad ( 1198475 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:22AM (#60338845) Homepage

          As it turns out, conservative is not far right. And people with an R next to their name are only just now starting to figure it out. You can either be Progressive, Conservative, or Regressive. Being conservative means maintaining the status quo as much as possible and only expanding or moving forward when it benefits the most people possible. We're at a point now where a large number of people in the higher ranks of government want to move it all backward and are no longer hiding it.

          • by liefer ( 5008787 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#60339273)
            Not online. Here if you're Republican, conservative or even, *gasp*, a supporter of Trump you are an inhuman monster. There is no nuance as evident by the comments to this story which consists mostly of infantile insults. It gets boring, fast. At least I'm not an American so I don't have to deal with this noise on a daily basis
    • As twitter, I'd probably kick him off. His constant threats against twitter themselves makes me think hosting him is a fundamental threat to their business in the first place. Why give someone a pulpit inside my business to scream how they're going to destroy my business? Seems like a weird risk to take.

    • by leonbev ( 111395 )

      Seriously, why hasn't he moved to Parler like most of the other Conservative media has? Complaining about Liberal bias on Silicon Valley run tech sites is passe now... there are alternatives available.

      • I would guest that move would admit some sort defeat. And Trump must win whatever war he has created in his own mind.
    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Journalists will follow him but his base might not. His base are the ones he is really talking to, not the journalists.

      Anyway it wouldn't fix this issue, he would stop be trending on Twitter because it's everyone else posting about the stuff he says and does that makes that happen, not Trump.

  • So unfair! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Comboman ( 895500 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:12AM (#60338565)
    They post negative trending topics about me to make them trend. So unfair! They release polls showing me losing to make me lose. So unfair! They test for COVID to find more people with COVID. So unfair!
    • Re:So unfair! (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Hodr ( 219920 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:46AM (#60338685) Homepage

      He didn't articulate it well (because he almost never does), but there does appear to be a bias.

      Trump has 80+ million twitter followers. Many (most?) of them post and retweet positive messages about the president. And it only takes a couple thousand retweets to get to the top of the trending tweets list (at least that what google tells me). So why are positive Trump tweets (of which there are lots from his fanbase) basically non-existent on that page?

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by spun ( 1352 )

        I thought it was obvious. Most of Trump's followers are bots, journalists, and his enemies hate-watching him implode. He has very, very little support among normal American citizens at this point.

      • by nomadic ( 141991 )

        "He didn't articulate it well"

        He didn't sound like a functioning adult. HE'S THE PRESIDENT AND HE SOUNDS LIKE A DERANGED 5-YEAR OLD. And you're really going "he has a point"?

      • Re:So unfair! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Comboman ( 895500 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:41AM (#60338917)

        Trump has 80+ million twitter followers. Many (most?) of them post and retweet positive messages about the president.

        No, most of his Twitter followers just want to see what batshit crazy thing he posts next. Trump is the world's greatest shock comedian (but the world's worst president).

      • Re:So unfair! (Score:5, Informative)

        by Mordaximus ( 566304 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:55AM (#60338973)

        Trump has 80+ million twitter followers. Many (most?) of them post and retweet positive messages about the president. And it only takes a couple thousand retweets to get to the top of the trending tweets list (at least that what google tells me). So why are positive Trump tweets (of which there are lots from his fanbase) basically non-existent on that page?

        80+ Million twitter followers? 62,984,828 Voted for Trump. If every single one of them had a twitter account and follow him, that still means 1/4 of his followers didn't vote for him, don't support him and/or aren't from the US. It's doubtful that any of that quarter have anything positive to say about him.

        That also ignores the possibility that a good chunk of those followers are bots. I'm not sure how bots factor in to trending numbers.

        • I follow Trump, I'm not even in the USA. Not everything is about following people you agree with, sometimes you want to keep tabs on people you don't or better still just get your daily dose of laughing at the incredibly stupid shit morons say.

          I don't like him. He's the single worst president a wealthy western nation has seen since the war, but man I can highly recommend not only following him and retweeting but also buying the book [amazon.com]. It's a great laugh.

  • Ultimate snowflake (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gnasher719 ( 869701 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:16AM (#60338583)
    Donald Trump - eternal snowflake - "It's so unfair".

    Everyone in the UK instantly thinks of Kevin and Perry. Perry asking for a jam sandwich, and Kevin Trump complaining "it's so unfair".
    • by Freischutz ( 4776131 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:26AM (#60338613)

      Donald Trump - eternal snowflake - "It's so unfair". Everyone in the UK instantly thinks of Kevin and Perry. Perry asking for a jam sandwich, and Kevin Trump complaining "it's so unfair".

      Considering the endemic tough guy culture in the US, it's quite interesting that a national leader of that country could derive his greatest strength from the fact that he is a whiny little bitch who routinely gets on a stage and whines about what a victim he is.

    • by Darinbob ( 1142669 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:49AM (#60338953)

      The complete opposite of Reagan. Reagan was great at shrugging off criticism, Trump lets criticism stick to him. Reagan was full of confidence, and Trump is full of insecurity. Reagan was friends with everyone even political adversaries, but Trump treats everyone as a potential enemy.

  • by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:21AM (#60338605)

    President Trump thinks that trends are illegal!

  • Or Trump's twitter feed. You decide.

  • Face it (Score:5, Insightful)

    by meglon ( 1001833 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:38AM (#60338657)
    It's not just Trump. Trump isn't the beginning and the end of the problem... he's the current result of 40 years of republican policy and governing strategy that requires them to be the victims, and everyone else to be the cause of their misery. Every one of you that post here about how big of a whiny little bitch Trump is, expect the Trump cultists on here to mod your posts down to troll as soon as they can; you'll be absolutely right that he is, but they're brainwashed... and at least one of the mod/editors here on /. is one of them... so rationality here is fucked. They are a cult, and he is their current figurehead; once he's gone, they'll move on to the next person that tells them that they're the victims and points to someone else for them to blame.
    • Re: Face it (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Opr33Opr33 ( 1180091 )
      I would suggest the victim mentality is not limited to just one party or even to just politics. How many rich celebrities play the victim game for example.
  • by Baloo Uriza ( 1582831 ) <baloo@ursamundi.org> on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:49AM (#60338693) Homepage Journal
    Stop being a douchebag.
  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:51AM (#60338711)
    That what's trending is #trumpleThinSkin.
  • To a crime. Incredulous.

  • Typical (Score:5, Funny)

    by Miser ( 36591 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:07AM (#60338781)

    Old man yells at cloud, film at 11....

  • by necro81 ( 917438 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:27AM (#60338857) Journal
    Wait a sec, doesn't Donald Trump have a job? It's something important, right? Shouldn't he maybe stop looking at Twitter and attend to that?
  • by AndyKron ( 937105 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:29AM (#60338865)
    If one person calls you an asshole you can forget about it, but if everyone is calling you an asshole you might want to think about that.
  • by hdyoung ( 5182939 ) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:23AM (#60339413)
    I seriously miss the good-ol-days of the GOP when the leader was only half-incompetent but at least warm and friendly (Bush) or the other one that was near-senile but at least had real leadership qualities (Reagan).

    We asked for this. We voted him in. We absolutely asked for this and deserve every steaming pile that's been dumped on us for the past 3 years. And there's a good chance that we get 4 more years of it. We had better have a fair, free and open election in November. The only reason that I can tolerate this is because I know that we asked for it. That's democracy. We don't get the best leaders. We get the leaders that we ask for.

    This current guy..... oh my god..... just listen to that rant about Twitter. He reaps massive PR benefits from the platform for 4 years and then suddenly opens up on them like a 3-year old throwing a tantrum. "Unfair"???? Haaahahahahahahaha that's cute. That's so adorably cute. Listening to the frikkin POTUS whining about unfairness, after watching him spending 3 years taking an endless string of steaming dumps on every single person around him except for his immediate family. And the Senate Republicans lining up to support him (how'd that work out for you Jeff Sessions?) or staying silent because they're too scared to speak truth to power. Gods, the amount of cowardice here is staggering. This used to be the party of Lincoln. Note that I use past tense.

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