Please, for the love of God

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November 12, 2016 at 10:24 am #57880

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Take away Trump’s twitter. If he’s truly interested in bringing people together, then just stop tweeting. Doesn’t matter what he’s talking about at any given moment, because his feed is just a breeding ground for contemptuous arguments. And not even good arguments, really, because how much can you say in 144 characters? “FU LEFT DEAL W/IT HE’S POTUS U SUCK #BLOWME #GOCRY #SAFESPACE” I mean, truly idiotic shit can be found in the comments after his tweets, and that’s attached to him now. I heard early on that they were going to get rid of it, but he’s still at it. Not doing anything wrong. Just tweeting. But if you take the time to read the literally hundreds of comments that have nothing to do with anything he said, right after he tweets, you have to come to the conclusion that it’s counterproductive to even be on social media anymore. You used it to get elected, it was a good tool, now get the fuck off of it and go to work.

You have to be odd, to be number one.
-- Dr Seuss

November 12, 2016 at 10:57 am #57890

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I like anything that gives us real time insight into what our president is thinking. Though since anything he says can be considered policy it probably should be ended.

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November 12, 2016 at 11:03 am #57893

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— X — wrote:

Take away Trump’s twitter. If he’s truly interested in bringing people together, then just stop tweeting. Doesn’t matter what he’s talking about at any given moment, because his feed is just a breeding ground for contemptuous arguments. And not even good arguments, really, because how much can you say in 144 characters? “FU LEFT DEAL W/IT HE’S POTUS U SUCK #BLOWME #GOCRY #SAFESPACE” I mean, truly idiotic shit can be found in the comments after his tweets, and that’s attached to him now. I heard early on that they were going to get rid of it, but he’s still at it. Not doing anything wrong. Just tweeting. But if you take the time to read the literally hundreds of comments that have nothing to do with anything he said, right after he tweets, you have to come to the conclusion that it’s counterproductive to even be on social media anymore. You used it to get elected, it was a good tool, now get the fuck off of it and go to work.

I agree with you about twitter.

Interesting thing in recent days: Trump is now saying really nice things about Obama and Clinton — Bill and Hillary. Very complimentary about both of them. It’s as if he really didn’t mean all the nasty things he said, whipping his fans into a frenzy of hatred toward them, all to get elected.

The subtext seems clearly to be:

“I didn’t mean any of that. It was all for show. It’s just politics.”

November 12, 2016 at 11:10 am #57897

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Billy_T wrote:

It’s as if he really didn’t mean all the nasty things he said, whipping his fans into a frenzy of hatred toward them, all to get elected.

The subtext seems clearly to be:

“I didn’t mean any of that. It was all for show. It’s just politics.”

I thought that was fairly obvious while it was happening.

You have to be odd, to be number one.
-- Dr Seuss

November 12, 2016 at 11:14 am #57899
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Yep

And we may start on a wall but perhaps not right away and maybe not get too much of it done and perhaps Mexico won’t have to pay for it. And maybe there are parts of Obama care that are decent so we should revise it instead of throw it out right away. And Hillary is a good person who should be thanked so their probably will not be an indictment. And, and, and.

It is not unusual for an incoming president to not push with fervor and also to face some realities, which they most likely knew ahead of time, on what could be enacted and not be able to push some (or more than some) of the agenda they promised.

It is unusual for the promises to be so angry and full of vitriol and the backing away to happen this quickly.

I wonder if we will ever see his tax returns…
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November 12, 2016 at 11:17 am #57902

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Hram wrote:

Yep

And we may start on a wall but perhaps not right away and maybe not get too much of it done and perhaps Mexico won’t to pay for it. And maybe there are parts of Obama care that are decent so we should revise it instead of throw it out right away. And Hillary is a good person who should be thanked so they’re probably will not be an indictment. And, and, and.

It is not unusual for an incoming president to not push with fervor and also to face some realities, which they most likely knew ahead of time, on what could be enacted and not be able to push some (or more than some) of the agenda they promised.

It is unusual for the promises to be so angry and full of vitriol and the backing away to happen this quickly.

I wonder if we will ever see his tax returns…

The WaPo has an article about that today:

Trump and advisers hedge on major pledges, including Obamacare and the wall
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