Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The president's Twitter habit

It's not an out-of-the-blue phenomenon. The office of the president has been hemorrhaging its dignity for some time. The thug "entertainers" that the Most Equal Comrade and Madame Food Desert hosted in the White House included at least one guy sporting a house-arrest ankle bracelet. It can be argued that Nixon's 1968 appearance on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was a catalyst for the process.

But this kicks it up a notch. Squirrel-Hair's tweeting gives us way too full a gaze upon his boorishness.

And it's bad for foreign policy and national security. You don't tweet about policy toward Qatar in the midst of its isolation by a coalition of Arab states. You don't use Twitter to castigate Germany's trade policy or its contribution to NATO.

It's bad for immigration policy. You don't call the pause in immigration from seven select countries known as sewers of jihad a "travel ban," a term your supporters avoided when the proposal was first launched. And then get called out for it and then double down just to strut your defiance chops. You don't use Twitter to tell the Justice Department what it ought to be doing. And you don't tweet "The courts are too slow and political!" when those very courts may someday hear cases related to some initiative of importance to you.

Carly Fiorina has it right:

In a recent appearance on a Politico podcast, Fiorina again stated the obvious, this time about Trump and his penchant for Twitter antics.
…the former Hewlett-Packard executive-turned-U.S. presidential candidate – called the president’s musings on Twitter both “insulting” and “distracting.”
And she expressed little confidence that Trump will pull back.
“I don’t think he will stop tweeting, unfortunately,” she told POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown, “but I think it’s very destructive.”

Anybody covering for this style of public outreach is complicit in something that definitely does not make America great again.


20 comments:

  1. You forgot his tweet accusing his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him (unprecedented and groundless) but that might not count because you seem to revel in libel and slander of any but your peeps to whom you never ascribe disparaging monikers.

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  2. But what a ballsy dude when he's tearing into people, places and things you too despise.

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  3. You need to substantiate that charge that I revel in libel & slander

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  4. I call all your beefs against Obama, Hillary, Kerry so. It's a nasty political environment out there, getting nastier.

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  5. And it is not like everything will be allright if Trump stops tweeting. The man is all you've said he is and all I've said he is and more. And I do indeed want him to fail. To fail so bad and fall so hard that we will never ever again see the likes of him.

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  6. I am sure no one here revels intentionally in libel or slander. Tweet duplicity...?

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  7. I know if Trump fails, so perhaps do all the many things he's doing that you're cool with. Can I ask you, why, after 60 years of albeit uneasy armistice, things are the closest they've been to blowing in the less than 5 months Trump's been in office? It seems like we are on the verge of war on multiple fronts all of a sudden. I know you repeatedly trashed the last 3 secretaries of state for their diplomatic efforts, questioning their motives and actions, in the verge of libel and slander, the defense of which is truth, but in your case it should be risibility. 95 career diplomats who signed an anti-Trump letter before the election and many still within (now derisively called the deep state)are at least to be heard. And heeded?

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  8. You basically called me a slander and accused me of libel. And you did noting to substantiate it. Nothing. You said I "beefed against" Hillary, Kerry, Obama. That. proves nothin g. It is the most shallow kind of intellectual laziness, not to mention rank dishonesty.

    Substantiate it. Prove that I libeled or slandered these figures. Your integrity as a human being is on the line.

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  9. Libel #1: Obama intentionally wrecking the US economy. (not slander because we don't talk).

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  10. And my integrity as a human being is not on the line, even if you say so.

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  11. How can you conclude otherwise when he presided over not only the slowest recovery in modern history, but elbowed the fossil-fuel industry out of its natural profits with the EPA regulations that came down the pike under his direction, and the unprecedented ted uncertainty in the health-care sector?

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  12. He's even confirmed it with his own statements, such as the assertion that at some point a person has made enough money.

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  13. You, along with your ilk, and Trump, of course, slandered the crap out of Hillary Clinton for 8 years. Claiming she was responsible for the deaths at Benghazi. More tomorrow. It's late and I really must get some sleep to work my shallow kind of intellectual (and physical) laziness. Write at you later....

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  14. You basically called Kerry a traitor.

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  16. Anyhow, I wrote "you seem to revel in libel and slander." That is not calling you personally a libeler or a slanderer? You get off on it, but do you do it?

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  17. Seem to is such a strong phrase too.

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  18. Hillary Clinton is responsible for those deaths - and the subsequent coverup.

    John Kerry is definitely a traitor, and has been since his testimony to Congress representing Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in which he made upon atrocities supposedly committed by US troops. Then, thirteen years later, as a new senator, he high-tailed it down to Nicaragua to assure the Sandinistas that there was a force within the US government opposing administration policy toward that country. Then, even before the P5+1 meetings got going, he told Iran's foreign minister that the US was culpable for a lot of world-stage tensions.

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  19. Keep trying to get them then. Until convicted of a crime and jailed (as Big Bully the Trump man so forcefully asserted in front of an international audience) those claims border on the libelous. But, hey, it's politics. Where lies abound and all is in the name of money, power and influence.

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