- Have been in isolation together.
- Not another living soul within yards of them.
- And they are wearing matching masks?
- Are they going to give each other Covid because they are outside?
Talk about your average everyday pandering to politics for no logical reason what-so-ever. But then again, what is logical about this? You can't catch Covid at a Walmart, but you can at a Hallmark. You cannot catch Covid at an abortion clinic, but you can at a cancer screening. You can drive in the same car as a bunch of people without catching Covid, but if you get out of that same car and get into a boat with those exact same people... then you will catch Covid.
This particular picture should be the epidome of our political ridiculousness in our Covid response. Completely unnecessary action for the sake of a photo-op that takes advantage of irrational thought process and unnecessary fear.
47 comments:
Eddie Zipperer
@EddieZipperer
INSTANT CLASSIC FROM @MSNBC:
ANCHOR: "Are the people there just not worried about it? Are they not worried about their personal safety?"
REPORTER: "I haven't met anybody who is... you can see here, nobody's wearing them [masks]."
GUY ON STREET: "Including the Cameraman."
"BUSTED VIDEO" - HILLARIOUS:
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1265374806662397953
And what was Trump's refusal to wear a mask even when prudent, if not pandering to politics?
JERRY DUNLEAVY
@JerryDunleavy
Days after not wearing a mask at Virginia Beach despite getting close to a ton of people for selfies (his excuse was he didn't expect to run into crowds which is laugh out loud funny), Northam is *now* suddenly mandating mask wearing months into the pandemic. The man is a joke.
THE WASHINGTON POST:
Trump Dismisses Face Masks as ‘Politically Correct’
President Trump dismissed a mask-wearing reporter as being “politically correct.
“The president’s refusal to wear a face mask in public, defying recommendations from public health experts, has become a symbol for his supporters resisting stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus crisis. To wear one then is seen by some as being anti-Trump.”
I saw a video of Trump supporters coughing on and spitting toward supermarket employees for requiring the wearing of masks. I guess that was being "politically correct" a la Trumpism.
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Benny
@bennyjohnson
@GovMikeHuckabee says Biden’s mask wasn’t just a mask, it was a “gag” to keep him from talking.
He’s probably right.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1265336699372154880
And the "pastor" is back to Goddard and political_lire and acting like it's him speaking.
Guess it's like a "virtual mask"
James said...
I saw a video of Trump supporters coughing on and spitting toward supermarket employees for requiring the wearing of masks.
sure james, post that video, I'll post about the opposite happening then with mask "supporters"
ROFLMFAO !!!
sure james, post that video, I'll post about the opposite happening then with mask "supporters"
ROFLMFAO !!!
He lies constantly
Here, I'll just go ahead and post a video of the opposite
McAuley
@McauleyHolmes
Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/McauleyHolmes/status/1264721468761481216
I'm pretty sure the "pastor" is just lying or else he would have already posted it from Goddard's political_lire.
ROFLMFAO at the lying weasel !!!
and notice their sanctimonious "social distancing"
VOX:
Trump dismisses his own government’s guidance about masks as “politically correct”
Trump’s latest unhinged news conference illustrates why he’s no longer doing daily coronavirus briefings.
President Donald Trump’s impromptu news conference late on Tuesday afternoon began with him musing about taking insulin just for fun and ended with him explaining his opposition to mail-in voting by characterizing voting as “an honor” (it’s actually a right). The stuff he said in between wasn’t any less wacky.
The event, which came on the same day that the official US coronavirus death toll closes in on 100,000 and was ostensibly about what his administration is doing to bring down the price of insulin, revealed how out of his depth Trump is in trying to respond to a public health crisis that requires scientific expertise — as well as how desperate he is to generate distractions giving him something else to talk about.
For anyone who isn’t already drinking the MAGA Kool-Aid, it was not a reassuring spectacle.
The first question Trump fielded was from Jeff Mason of Reuters, who asked him to explain a retweet he posted on Monday seemingly mocking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for wearing a mask during a public appearance earlier in the day. Trump’s response indicated he’s deeply confused about how masks work.
“He was standing outside with his wife, perfect conditions, perfect weather — when they’re inside they don’t wear masks,” Trump said. “And so I thought it was very unusual he had one on.” CH LINE OF REASONING. CH GOT IT FROM TRUMP, YOU SEE.
But all Biden was doing was following the guidance of Trump’s own government about wearing masks in public. Trump seems to think he should also be wearing a mask at home, but the entire point is to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus when people are out and about — something Biden obviously doesn’t have to worry about at home. But even this basic understanding of how masks work is seemingly lost on the president.
WHO, LIKE CH, IS STUPID.
Then, as Mason tried to ask a follow-up question, Trump cut him off and asked him to remove his mask. Mason refused, prompting Trump to dismiss mask-wearing as an effort to be “politically correct.”
“You want to be politically correct,” Trump said.
“No sir, I just want to wear the mask,” Mason responded.
To be clear, Mason was FOLLOWING THE GUIDANCE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
(DON'T YOU WISH WE HAD A PRESIDENT WHO WOULD?)
Trump — who was not wearing a mask — was not. And yet here was the president chastising someone for taking basic precautions that are in the public interest and that he refuses to follow himself.
Trump’s retweet mocking Biden for wearing a mask was FAR FROM HIS ONLY objectionable post.
He also posted tweets over the weekend pushing a baseless conspiracy meant to implicate a prominent critic of his, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, in the death of a woman named Lori Klausutis. (Trump has repeatedly falsely characterized the situation as a “cold case” of murder — in fact, the woman died of natural causes.)
On Monday, Klausutis’s widower went as far as to pen a letter asking Twitter to take Trump’s tweet down, citing the trauma they’re inflicting on Klausutis’s family. But asked to address the situation on Tuesday, Trump indicated he has no regrets.
“A lot of people suggest that,” Trump said, alluding to his false claims about Scarborough’s involvement. “Hopefully somebody, people are gonna find out. Certainly a very suspicious situation. Very sad.”
But the situation isn’t suspicious. It has been investigated, and Klausutis was found to have died of natural causes. And yet during a follow-up exchange, Trump noted “there is no statute of limitations...so, it would be a very good thing to do" and called for a baseless investigation into a prominent critic of his.
WHEN HE LOSES THE ELECTION, HE WILL PROBABLY BE CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF EVERY ONE WHO VOTES AGAINST HIM.
ROFL
Trump’s behavior is clearly indecent, but he’s either incapable of or unwilling to recognize that. His call for transparently politicized investigations into discredited conspiracy theories would’ve generated major headlines in any previous era, but in 2020 it’s just Trump being Trump.
The Scarborough conspiracy theory was far from the only one Trump pushed during Tuesday’s event. He accused North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) of acting “very suspiciously” by refusing to commit to allowing 20,000 people to pack into a Charlotte arena for the Republican National Convention in August, even though Cooper has obvious commonsense reasons for being unwilling to do so at a time when coronavirus cases in his state are still increasing.
Trump also tried to discredit mail-in voting by saying it would “destroy our country” and lead to “a rigged system” — even though five states, including deep-red Utah, already conduct their elections almost entirely with mail-in ballots.
Asked to explain his opposition to mail-in voting, Trump claimed "voting is a great honor" (it's actually a right!, STUPID) and then ended his news conference.
NINCOMPOOP.
Trump spent Saturday and Sunday at the golf course, yet he wants people to believe that forcing states to reopen places of worship is something he’s deadly serious about doing. Trump doesn’t really have the power to follow through on this threat, which he first made during a White House event last Friday, but he’s not about to let the Constitution get in the way of his narrative.
Asked on Tuesday to detail what authority gives him the power to override governors and force open places of worship that have already proven to be coronavirus vectors, Trump claimed, “I can absolutely do it if I want to” — BUT COULDN'T CITE ANYTHING GIVING HIM THAT ABSOLUTE RIGHT.
“We have many different ways where we could override them,” he said, WITHOUT ELABORATING, before moving on.
All in all, the event was both a throwback to the lengthy and at times highly confrontational news conferences Trump held just about every day in March and April — made-for-TV events he clearly enjoyed but that exposed his ignorance and ended after his advisers reportedly concluded they were hurting Trump in the polls.
Trump clearly can’t help himself — ignorant comments, conspiracy theories, and baseless claims are just his thing. But in the context of a pandemic he was unprepared for and has no plan to pull the country out of, the unintentional comedy seems less amusing than ever.
NOTE TO READERS:
That was intersting, wasn't it? You're very welcome.
Asked to explain his opposition to mail-in voting, Trump claimed "voting is a great honor" (it's actually a right!, STUPID) and then ended his news conference.
My god you stupid old man, this has been proven to you so often. There is no right to vote.
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/20/6997315/voting-rights-amendment-affirmative-right-to-vote
Here stupid it’s written by VOX so even you can understand it
1:30 later no video from James.
So the "pastor" was caught in yet ANOTHER LIE
And "responds by dumping a bunch of spam from his GODdard and "savior" political_lire.
STILL WAITING FOR THAT VIDEO ASSHOLE, funny I haven't seen it anywhere and you would think that would get some traction.
Of course liberals are famous for creating FAKE incidents so one may pop up in the future. And lying while accusing others of lying. It must be in their DNA
I'll go get my boilerplate, looks like the lying POS "pastor" is shoveling like mad again.
ROFLMFAO !!!
*** Conspiracy Theory !!! ***
John C. Dvorak
@THErealDVORAK
Did Biden use a stunt double when he left his house for the first time on Memorial Day??
https://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK/status/1265348207048974336
Jaxsky14
@jaxsky14
What’s up with Biden’s ear?!! Is this him? Face with monocle I don’t think so
https://twitter.com/jaxsky14/status/1264992906479374339
Is someone else being Joe Biden Bea(t) Joe Biden ???
Would explain the large mask/muzzle
Or was he just afraid when he was told he was caught "unmasking" ???
James said...
VOX:
vox -
that merry band of childish retards who just posted an article about how we need a "memorial day" to honor war protestors.
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/25/8656381/war-resisters-memorial-day
only a complete fucking moron accepts a voxsplanation for anything.
There is no right to vote.
neil boortz explained this in detail over 20 years ago.
Here lieth the lesson for government officials and policy makers: Think carefully before crossing the lines that give reasonable men pause.
Now, some governments can not only cross but obliterate certain lines and totally get away with it. China’s a perfect example; the CCP has killed millions, and it keeps on killing. China gives hope to other dictators and demagogues. No tyrants, stormtroopers, or party functionaries commit transgressive acts expecting to end up swinging from a rope at a war-crimes trial, just like nobody robs a bank expecting to get caught. That’s just human nature.
The American politicians who’ve visited hell on this nation with the mass lockdowns, forced cessation of commerce, and eradication of livelihoods expect to get away with it. They envision a future for themselves in which they’re hailed as saviors, not condemned as monsters. Fifty years from now, they think they’ll be remembered as Mao is by Chinese communists, not as Hitler is by the world.
And if you think I’m comparing the lockdowns to the Holocaust, I am. Not in terms of loss of life, but in terms of a monumental line-crossing that can never be undone. The lockdowns have committed obscene violence against our rights and our Constitution. We are a changed people because of them. Yes, there have been previous mass infringements of liberties in the U.S., from Prohibition to Manzanar. But they always came down through channels. It’s telling that the same people who won’t allow a single Trump executive order to go into effect without running it past judge after judge after judge to test for “constitutionality” have suspended basic rights for a majority of Americans based on dubious proclamations from mayors and governors.
Funny how no one on the left wants to run the lockdown orders past a Hawaiian judge.
https://www.takimag.com/article/a-lockdown-line-in-the-sand/
ve been in isolation together.
Not another living soul within yards of them.
And they are wearing matching masks?
It is called leading by example you cold hearted dumb fuck....Unlike trump.....whose fat ass leads by McDonalds and does not give a shit about others....just like our Lil Schitty......maybe you can explain why those Mn cops are not in jail for murder????? Again, because you don't give a shit it is just one black life to pigs like you!!!!!!
neil boortz explained this in detail over 20 years ago.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Boortz another flaming asshole just like you rat!!!!!
And the cold hearted dumb fucks here will all applaud as this white cunt loses her job because she acted like rat and Lil Schitty in public...!!!!! Wonder what your alleged employers would say if they happened on this little slice of hell!!!!!
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Amy Cooper called the police on Christian Cooper on May 25 after he asked her to leash her dog in Manhattan's Central Park. (Christian Cooper)
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Teo Armus
May 27, 2020 at 6:07 a.m. EDT
Christian Cooper was birdwatching deep in the woods of Manhattan’s Central Park when he noticed a rogue cocker spaniel digging up the shrubbery around him.
Many of the birds he spots stop by for the dense plants, so he approached the dog’s owner early on Monday with a request: Could she leash up the canine, as the park rules required?
Amy Cooper said she would be calling the police instead.
“I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” the white woman told him, pulling out her cellphone and dialing 911.
Less than 24 hours later after a video of their exchange went online, she has lost her dog, her anonymity, and her job — the latest incident in a long, too-familiar pattern of white people calling the police on black people for any number of everyday activities: Barbecuing. Playing golf. Swimming at a pool.
Time to add a new outdoor pastime to that list: birdwatching.
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“I don’t think there’s an African American person in America who hasn’t experienced something like this at some point,” Christian Cooper, a 57-year-old science editor, told The Washington Post in an interview. “I don’t shy away from confronting the scofflaw when I see it. Otherwise, the park would be unusable — not just to us birders but to anybody who enjoys the beauty."
Amid the pandemic, people are paying more attention to tweets. And not the Twitter kind.
Christian Cooper — who is not related to Amy — had gotten up early on Memorial Day to head to the Ramble, a heavily wooded section of Central Park designed to resemble a wild garden. With its rocky outcrops and thick canopy, the area makes for an especially inviting stopover for birds on their northward migration, he said.
An avid birder since childhood, Cooper had been making daily trips this spring to peek at the wildfowl seeking some refuge from the urban sprawl. In recent weeks, scarlet tanagers, ovenbirds, and the especially elusive mourning warblers had all sought out the avian oasis.
It is called leading by example you cold hearted dumb fuck....
indeed. and the example they're setting is one of stupefying idiocy.
and unsurprisingly, you've signed on.
you're a dumb fuck, BWAA. and no one can ever take that away from you.
And the cold hearted dumb fucks here will all applaud as this white cunt loses her job
inquire as to her party affiliation, BWAA. how much do you want to bet she's a registered democrat?
I said white cunt......only dumb fucks like you politicize her for being stupid!!!!! Wanna bet you have your head stuck in your ass?????? bWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Wearing a mask to protect others in the asshole world of rat, is being stupid......You are the leading example why trumps GOP is going down the shitter!!!!!
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Utah: Trump vs. Biden KUTV-2/Y2 Analytics* Trump 44, Biden 41 Trump +3
Maryland: Trump vs. Biden Gonzales Research Biden 59, Trump 35 Biden +24
President Trump Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 44, Disapprove 55 Disapprove +11
Monday, May 25
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Direction of Country Rasmussen Reports Right Direction 34, Wrong Track 60 Wrong Track +26
Sunday, May 24
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Minnesota: Trump vs. Biden Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon Biden 49, Trump 44 Biden +5
Thursday, May 21
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
General Election: Trump vs. Biden FOX News Biden 48, Trump 40
Maybe trump should prescribe himself insulin since he fits the age group of most users.....I wonder if he knows what insulin is?????? And rat will bow and pray in the shadow of his fat old white ass!!!!
Twitter has given itself a big problem. They cannot fact check Trump but not the likes of Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, waters, Joe and mika, and the rest. That is censoring the potus.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Twitter has given itself a big problem. They cannot fact check Trump but not the likes of Pelosi, Schiff,
The dumb fucking loser ballz does not take into consideration that those individuals have not posted abject BULLSHIT like trump does on a daily basis....No wonder why you have trumps dick stuck in your old white ass.....you like it!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!! And you wonder why you are a fucking loser?????
told ya -
However, campaign contribution information — with donations to Democrats such as Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg, and John Kerry — leaked online earlier today appeared to suggest that Amy actually identifies as a liberal. If true, this matters, because in this political era, during this most critical US presidential election, it is necessary that we understand and recognize that white violence transcends party lines and political ideology.
In the video that Christian recorded, Amy can be heard saying, "I'm taking a picture and calling the cops,” as she appears to strangle or roughly handle her dog with the pet’s collar. "I'm going to tell them there's an African American man threatening my life."
Amy repeatedly and insistently stresses the term “African American,” giving viewers the impression that his race is significant here, perhaps in terms of how he can expect to be treated by the police. Incidents of police brutality against Black people are not rare, as Amy Cooper must surely be aware of. In fact, just today, news broke that another unidentified Black man has died in Minneapolis, seemingly gasping, “I can’t breathe” as a police officer keeps his knee on the man’s neck.
White violence is not the sole domain of Trump supporters, or open white supremacists. White violence is pervasive, spreading everywhere and tainting everything. And when we overlook liberal white racism, we put ourselves in grave danger, because liberal white people often live closer in proximity to Black folks than their conservative peers. There's a chance the Amy Cooper we see in that viral video may not be the same Amy Cooper whose details were leaked onto social media — but as a New York City resident, she's still statistically much likely to be a Democrat than a Republican, and the conversation about white liberal racism is long overdue.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/amy-cooper-central-park-racist-dog-walker-trump-a9533581.html
told ya -
That she is a stupid white cunt????? Yep....Identifies as a liberal....now there is the real indictment for a dumb fucking loser like you!!!!!!!! Coming from the UK is even more impressive.....BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Rat gets trolled again...!!!
As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.
Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity
Seems to me the shit you posted is a stream of opinions, not facts.....No surprise there as usual!!!!
The Hidden Risk in Donald Trump’s Tweets
New York Post editorial:
“There is a difference between mocking someone’s ratings and hurting an innocent family with the memories of their tragic daughter because of a petty feud… Is that really the president you want to be, sir? The president for whom people disregard half or even most of what you say as irrelevant?”
Funny that the asshole of NY cannot find US sources anymore to confirm his bias!!!!!! Amazing how the real press is not picking up on the Bullshit but the fucking loser is!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Rat the dumb fucks proof....from his source
More news for Amy Cooper Is A Liberal
As far as we know, Amy Cooper is the ideal liberal on paper. She also threatened to call the police and falsely report “an African American man” was “threatening her life” in a country well-known for allowing fatal police brutality against unarmed, innocent Black people.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Cali thinks American citizens do not have a right to vote.
Blacks did not, in earlier times.
That has been finally deemed unconstitutional.
Trump’s Slanderous Attack Incompatible with Leadership
Washington Examiner editorial:
“Whatever his issues with Scarborough, President Trump’s crazed Twitter rant on this subject was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead.
“To say Trump owes Scarborough an apology is to put it mildly. But in the end, Scarborough won’t be the one hurt by this. Against a weak opponent, Trump somehow managed in 2016 to win despite carrying on with sad, deluded conspiracy theories about Sen. Ted Cruz’s father being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Against a less reviled opponent, he may not be so lucky in 2020.
“And observers might even someday look back at this incident as the instant when things began to unravel.”
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HE'S DEFINITELY OFF THE RAILS.
A Presidential Smear
Wall Street Journal editorial:
“Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination—but his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even for him. Mr. Trump has been tweeting the suggestion that Mr. Scarborough might have had something to do with the death in 2001 of a young woman who worked in his Florida office when Mr. Scarborough was a GOP Congressman…
“There’s no evidence of foul play, or an affair with the woman, and the local coroner ruled that the woman fainted from an undiagnosed heart condition and died of head trauma. Some on the web are positing a conspiracy because the coroner had left a previous job under a cloud, but the parents and husband of the young woman accepted the coroner’s findings and want the case to stay closed…
“We don’t write this with any expectation that Mr. Trump will stop. Perhaps he even thinks this helps him politically, though we can’t imagine how. But Mr. Trump is debasing his office, and he’s hurting the country in doing so.”
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NOW THAT'S THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SPEAKING, FOLKS.
Trump’s 2016 Aides Warn He’s In Trouble
“David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, two key allies and former political advisers to Donald Trump, went to the White House last week to issue him a warning: The president was slipping badly in swing states, and he needed to do something to fix it,” Politico reports.
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DOES THIS HELP EXPLAIN WHY HE'S SO OFF THE RAILS?
Blacks did not, in earlier times.
Damned Republicans started the whole mess!!!!!!! LOL
*** NOTICE OF CONSTANT SPAMMING and USE OF TAEGAN GODDARD's POLITICAL_LIRE ***
Regular readers of this blog know the constant spamming, lying and obsession for that left-wing Taegan Goddard blog by a certain poster. That poster james, also called the "pastor" (which he claims to be even if you can't tell by his actions) is the POS responsible and considers his mindless rude behavior his hobby. Sometimes he credits Taegan Goddard, sometimes he doesn't.
He has descended so far into TDS and desperation he fills every discussion thread with what people have described as an avalanche of spam. If this is being posted today is no different. He even gets his edited news from that site and spams that if he thinks it will hurt Trump. Every day he repeats what that site posts, regardless of topic. It gets so bad he feels the need to even repeat his spam multiple times in a single thread as well as posting in every active thread the very same spam.
He has exhibited the same mental deterioration as Joe Biden and his postings should be given the same consideration. Both their heads will probably explode when it becomes obvious that Trump will win a second term. Biden will not even notice his head did.
I'm JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE
And like I said "james" was lying and couldn't back up his claim and instead is flooding us with his GODdard spam as I predicted.
Lewandowski tweeted four hours ago that Trump will win in 2020 in a blowout and to not believe the fake news.
Oops.
Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms that do not support his agenda, a day after Twitter posted a fact-checking notice on one of his tweets.
Social media firms suppressed conservative points of view, the president claimed without providing any evidence, before saying his administration would “strongly regulate [the companies] or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen”.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms that do not support his agenda, a day after Twitter posted a fact-checking notice on one of his tweets.
no he hasn't. what he has done is criticize them, with validity, for the way they operate.
familiarize yourself with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act alky.
Section 230(c)(1) ensures the free flow of ideas, exempting internet platforms from publisher and distributor liability posted by third parties. In this sense, Section 230(c)(1) provides common carrier protections. Just as telephone companies, broadband service providers, and even courier services like FedEx have no liability for the content of the messages and parcels they carry, neither does Facebook or Twitter.
Section 230(c)(2) was meant to keep things clean. It relieves carriers of liability for efforts to censor or curate content “in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.” Thus, when Prodigy edits comments for decency, it can do so without becoming a publisher of the entire website.
Congress bestowed in Section 230 extraordinary gifts of liability immunity. Section 230(c)(1) essentially gives internet platforms the immunities of common carriers, such as telephone companies, delivery services, and airlines. And Section 230(c)(2) is simply unprecedented and sui generis. The ease of distributing pornography and other obscene materials on the internet—which in the 1990s was shocking—no doubt motivated this gift.
[...]
But times have changed. Facebook, Twitter, and Google now bestride the narrow world like a Colossus. They exercise market power like a telephone company or electrical utility, extracting huge rents from the economy. They receive liability relief for the messages they carry just like a telephone or electrical utility, but with none of the duties of nondiscrimination or service. The result is obvious. Insulated from market forces by their near monopoly power and facing diminished financial incentives given their Croesus-like wealth, the leaders of these private companies can indulge their personal preferences, imposing them on the country’s political discourse.
In short, the Section 230 “deal” should be up for renegotiation. Fortunately, Senators Hawley and Ted Cruz of Texas are leading the charge. On Wednesday, Hawley introduced legislation that would remove Section 230 protections for the social media giants unless they submit to an external audit that proves their censorship protocols are politically neutral.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/social-media-platforms-or-publishers-rethinking-section-230/
those who enjoy the protections of Section 230 to exist as platforms forfeit that protection when they knowingly and intentionally become PUBLISHERS by manipulating content for ANY reason; political or otherwise.
the censorship gripe is obvious and legitimate. fakebook and twitter need to be bitch slapped and HARD.
News to the world....Fact checking according to the dumb fuck rat hole and trump is censorship!!!!!!!11 BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! TYPCAL OD LOW INTELLECT R'S WHO THINK FACTS ARE OPTIONAL!!!!!
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