Thursday 28th of March 2024

twitting ad nauseam...

a twit at the white house...

A new poll has found that most American voters want US President Donald Trump to stop, or at least curtail, his Twitter habit.

Amid the relentless stream of often incomprehensible tweets from the increasingly reviled US president, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll has recorded that American voters feel that Trump's use of the social media platform is bad, and that the president should tweet less, according to The Hill.

read more:

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201706081054420490-voters-say-stop-trum...

 

is it tweeting or twitting on twitter?...

Forget attempting to defend President Donald Trump’s tweets; the White House can’t even seem to decide what his tweets are. On Monday, national security aide Sebastian Gorka insisted they are “not policy,” while adviser Kellyanne Conway blasted the media’s “obsession”with them. A day later and the message from Press Secretary Sean Spicer was radically different.

read more:

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-tweets-spicer-official-statements-621919

it takes a village idiot...

Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes A Village. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton's Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, shared two pages of the work in which Clinton reminisces about the black prisoners who worked in the Arkansas governor’s mansion she shared with her husband, Bill Clinton, who led the state from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992.

“When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton writes. She adds that most of the workers were convicted murderers and she became friendly with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.”

Despite her alleged friendships with these men, Clinton tells her readers: “We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.” Despite having no psychological qualifications, she later asserts that these men did not have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning” but instead they may have been “emotional illiterates.

read more:

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-prison-labor-african-americans-a...

 

Was Hillary the village... idiot?

self-contrariant president...

... on a broader basis, the president has allowed his non-interventionist stance to be subverted by the Republican establishment. He has backed away from seeking an alliance with Russia. He has accepted continued deep American involvement in the Middle East. He has given the Pentagon more money, which, without military reform, just buys more expensive defeats. He has pursued strategically irrelevant quarrels with Iran and, dangerously, North Korea. This is not what “America First” looks like.

In the face of this disappointment, where are non-interventionist conservatives to find a voice? We can, of course, write articles for magazines, speak at conferences, and lament “O tempora! O mores!” [what times ! What behavior !] over sherry at the club. But a rule of life in Washington is that unless you are connected to political power, no one reads what you write or listens to what you say. You don’t count.

Read more:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/addressing-trumps-errant...

Nothing new... The art of politics is to get elected by spruiking lies and tell new lies, often contrary to the original lies, to stay in power, while the smidgin of truth you ever said is turned into lies and Russian conspiracy by your opponents. This makes the target so broad and so hard that no darts can penetrate -- unless the target is so soft, the darts are never found again, as they go through without touching anything. 

you don't like me, I don't like you...

 

President Trump faced a swift and bipartisan backlash on Thursday after he assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski in unusually personal and crude terms, the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the national news media.

Shortly before 9 a.m., as Ms. Brzezinski’s MSNBC show “Morning Joe” was ending, Mr. Trump used Twitter to taunt Ms. Brzezinski and her co-host, Joe Scarborough, referring to them as “low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe” and describing a meeting with Ms. Brzezinski in which, he said, “she was bleeding badly from a face-lift.”

I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

Mr. Trump is famed for his online provocations, but the coarseness of his remark about Ms. Brzezinski — coming from a president who has faced criticism for his attitudes toward women — drew immediate denunciations in the political world, including from prominent members of his own party.

“Obviously, I don’t see that as an appropriate comment,” the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, told reporters on Capitol Hill. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican whose vote is considered critical to the success of Mr. Trump’s health care plan, wrote on Twitter, “This has to stop.” She said, “We don’t have to get along, but we must show respect and civility.”

read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/business/media/trump-mika-brzezinski-facelift.html

 

Gus: Though there could be no philosophical connection between Mika Brzezinski — a journalist and her father, former White House national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a vicious anti-Russian Polish/American liar who was at the source of most US wars, one could sense the "jenesaisquoi" in the atmosphere... 

Meanwhile at the old caper of war against Iran:

 

The US State Department has published files on the 1953 Iranian coup against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh – a movement backed by the West that still looms over relations with Tehran, more than half a century later.

A new 1,007 page report has been released, primarily consisting of letters and diplomatic cables from the years leading up to the coup. The files mostly came from American officials to Iran, expressing concerns about increasing Soviet influence over Mosaddegh and concerns over political instability following the 1951 assassination of then-Prime Minister Haj Ali Razmara. 

The British, on the other hand, were incensed at Mosaddegh's nationalization of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which had been owned by British oil interests. The British supported the coup to ensure the profits continued to come their way.

 

 

"Nationalization of the oil industry possibly combined with further assassinations of top Iran officials, including even the shah, could easily lead to a complete breakdown of the Iran government and social order, from which a pro-Soviet regime might well emerge leaving Iran as a satellite state," reads one CIA analysis included among the reports.

To prevent this, the CIA undertook Operation Ajax. They "stockpiled enough arms and demolition material to support a 10,000-man guerrilla organization for six months," according to the report, in addition to paying $5.3 million in bribes ($48 million in today's dollars) to marshal anti-Mosaddegh elements. "Several leading members of [Iranian] security services are paid agents of this organization."

In an ironic twist, the CIA also expressed a desire to use "powerfully influential clergy" within Iran to back the coup. These same clergy would be the core of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which replaced the US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with the present day Islamic government.

read more:

https://sputniknews.com/military/201706301055100513-iranian-coup-cia-documents-declassified/

 

Note : The same "ironic twist" came back to haunt the USA, when they supported the Mujehadeens which became the enemy called the Taliban in Afghanistan....

 

 

tweeting from both hips...

So, what should we do?

I’m in the "take it seriously" camp myself. Trump is a prolific tweeter and he doesn’t hold back. Most of his tweets are personal; they are used to attack his opponents and to heap praise on his supporters. It seems that he is using Twitter as a personal megaphone and his incendiary tweets about #FakeNews and attacks on the mainstream U.S. media are dog whistling to his supporters. But that’s not the only issue Trump tweets about.

In his tweets, Trump continues to insist that there are great plans afoot to "MAGA" in health care, tax reform, defeating ISIS (famously, “within 30 days”), building the infamous wall and bringing jobs back to America.

Trump is famous for his late-night-into-early-morning "tweetstorms" and he appears to prefer that form of communication over actually fronting the media to do a press conference.

Perhaps we reached Peak Trump with this disturbing tweet instead of a news conference that was posted when he returned to the USA from the G20 meeting in Hamburg last weekend (10 July):

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/NVDVRrWLs4

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017

The clip Trump linked to does not have the slick production values of Hitler’s personal "Instagrammer", Leni Riefenstahl, but it has the same intent. It is the tweet of a literal God Emperor — or of someone who regards himself in such a light.

But no, it’s not Peak Trump — it can’t be, it’s only been six months. There’s another 3½ years of this and another election cycle to get through.

We need to heed Trump’s tweets, because the simple truth is that none of the great plans Trump keeps announcing and tweeting about is actually happening. He is talking up his agenda, but not accomplishing anything. Trump is not distracting us from anything because, outside of the tweets, his plans are pretty much stalled.

read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/lets-take-don...

a weak yellow card...

Call it the Trump rule.

Twitter will attach a special label to tweets by major political figures if their content violates the site’s rules but the deleting of them is not in the public interest, the company said on Thursday.

Tweets affected by the new measure will remain on the site, but will not appear in searches or be recommended to users through any of Twitter’s algorithmic channels. When they do appear in a user’s timeline, they will be hidden behind an interstitial reading: “The Twitter Rules about abusive behavior apply to this Tweet. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain available.” Users can then click through to view the tweet if they desire.

 

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/27/twitter-warning-label...

 

 

Read from top.

under the radar, not above the law...

Many anti-Trump Twitter users have proudly displayed in their bios how they were #BlockedByTrump, but things are about to change following a July 9 unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel within the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York.

Trump may not be the only politician who has to reverse his blocks. Tuesday afternoon, Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind announced on Twitter that he would open up a similar lawsuit against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), because “no one is above the law.”

“Debate, as uncomfortable and as unpleasant as it frequently may be, is nonetheless a good thing,” Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote. “In resolving this appeal, we remind the litigants and the public that if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less.”


read more:https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/201907101076199659-free-speech--tweets-donald-trump/

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going up one more level...

Between the release of the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign, Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray’s ABC interview and a payment totaling $2 million to eight separate charities over his misuse of funds, Trump had a lot of non-impeachment matters on his plate over the past two days. Perhaps that explains why the president didn’t have much firepower left when it came time to discuss the next step of the process.

In addition to his claim that there was absolutely “no pressure” put on Ukraine, Trump revisited a couple of former tweets by once again claiming that the entire process was a “WITCH HUNT!” and restating that US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s parody of Trump’s July conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was criminal.

sweet tweets

Meanwhile Comey is playing store dummy with a northern noo yorkee accent... 

 

Jim Comey is so adept at gaslighting that when you watch him being interviewed, he comes across as so plausible, you wonder if it’s you who has the inadequate grasp of reality.

But on Sunday, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace dragged the former FBI director into the real world by juxtaposing clips of his dishonest defense of the FBI’s doomed investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign alongside Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s recitation of the facts to Congress.

The problem for Comey is the facts damn him.

Oh, yes, he said yesterday, “I was wrong” and Horowitz was right.

But he admitted only to being “overconfident” in FBI procedures.

He tried to convince us it was just “sloppiness” when the FBI misled the court to spy on the Trump campaign using information it knew was false.

No one, not even scrupulously impartial Horowitz, believes the deception in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign is mere accidental untidiness.

But Comey was at his most delusional defending the Steele Dossier, a farrago of rumor and fantasy that “played a central and essential role” in the FBI’s applications for warrants to spy on the campaign, according to Horowitz.

Oh, no, said Comey, it was part of a “broader mosaic of facts.”

But, said Wallace, the dossier is proven to be “bunk.”

Oh, no, said Comey. The FBI and Horowitz “didn’t conclude the reporting from Steele was bunk.” There were just “significant questions about the reliability of some of the sub-source reporting.”

In other words, it was bunk.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/15/james-comey-is-eerily-skilled-at-selling-d...

 

Thanks to Miranda Devine to remind us, BUT WE knew this a long time ago... We know that Donald is an idiot with a high IQ, and that the Democrats are burning bridges. What hope is there for humanity when morons lead the world, because their opponents are more moronic than them? Where is the panic button?