Is Trump writing tweets for his aides?
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Business Insider says Trump is evading his Twitter ban by getting his aides to tweet his barbs. Most of these have come at the expense of Liz Cheney who he was unable to rally enough rabble to oust on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, he’s beginning to use his email list as a de facto Twitter account. Up until Thursday the “Office of Donald J. Trump” has been kept as professional as one can expect from a one-term president facing his second impeachment. That was until one of the Democratic House managers requested Big Chungus himself testify at his own impeachment trial in the Senate.
And so a sassy reply from lawyer David Schoen appeared calling Congressman Raskin’s request a publicity stunt.
After this impeachment is wrapped up, I am going to assume that email will get a little more like Trump’s freewheeling Twitter was. After all, email is the last unregulated digital space and the press can copy and paste his words just as easily from Gmail into clickbait articles.
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I'm sorry, I just can't take anything seriously that comes from someone still doing the "Drumpf" thing. - MATT
I can understand that it’s hard to let go. I’m still trying to ween myself off OBummer.
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If you really want to get parisian, you have to understand how our politics work. The federal government was not meant to be the nanny to the states. They have autonomy to govern themselves. The federal government should not bail out states that cannot be fiscally responsible. The federal government should not tell the states how to run their politics (including who is worthy of a vaccine). The federal government protects the states and is the liaison for the rest of the world. All this rambling so that when everyone wants to say how poorly the Pres did on COVID, they need to understand what the real responsibilities of the parties involved are. Hindsight is 20/20 and you can say we should have done this or that but the real proof of the pudding is that all the other countries that went before us did not fare any better than us. We have a larger population than any other first world nation and with that comes different outcomes. As we have seen from NY, the numbers can be manipulated to make any statement you want. Most of all both sides should have worked together at the beginning to have a better outcome but decided that it was better to make each other look bad. Does impeaching Trump do anything that makes the outcome of our situation any better? Wouldn't the time and money spent on it be better used for improving the economy? Why does Biden want to make it easier illegals to come into the country when all the money spent on them should be spent on our own people devastated by the epidemic? Why is the Biden administration making executive orders that are increasing unemployment instead of reducing it? That is the real partisan politics! - HALFNORMAL
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I am curious what you think of this article both as a journalist and politically. - JOHN H
It’s a necessary profile of one of the deaths during the Capitol Riots. If I were editing it I would have put up top that he died before any of the violence started, instead of ending the story with it. I think that’s worth putting on front street as many might think he was among the mob inside.
Not the biiiiiigggest fan of the narrative on him shitposting on Parler and watching NewsMax. Unless you have someone on the record in his life talking about what a problem that was or how much he changed that seems a little grafted on by the writer. But then again, sometimes you KNOW something is true because of background reporting and want to represent it somehow. Still, not a fan.
Ultimately, the biggest worth of the piece is showing the seeds of true resentment towards the Obama-era factory job losses. It’s why Trump’s “fighter” brand worked more than Jeb!-style “new normal.”
It’s also a warning to Biden that “turn the coal miners into solar panel manufacturers” rhetoric might fall on deaf ears.
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Is there a difference in stripping MTG from education but leaving her on the other committee? She has no place on an education panel. I have this recurring thought. The next time a school shooting occurs, MTG must be put on a plane and work with the forensics team. She has to see the horrific scene in person and once forensics is done she has to help clean up everything. Make her smell the horrific scent of death and see the victims’ families in person at their most vulnerable. Honestly all of congress should go do that. Maybe then they would listen to the vast majority of American’s after a mass shooting and do something. - SEAN
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Lately, whenever I see a headline with MTG in it I think the story is going to be about Magic the Gathering but am quickly disappointed when I realize it's the congresswoman. - MTG
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Have you ever heard the most unwanted song? It's just a hodgepodge of music that doesn't fit together and yet it is exquisitely painful to listen to. This is how I see political parties just a messy ass song that someone claims to like, but they are ether lying or stupid. Because people are more nuanced. Like I am for universal heath care, pro choice, the second amendment, death penalty, and assisted suicide. But there is no keep them healthy or kill them fast party I get lumped in with the Democrats because I can't stand the lip service that Republicans pay the religious nut jobs.
What I am saying is we need to have more parties because two sizes don't fit all. For once I am not stoned when emailing you. - ROB