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The Don is back on Twitter

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    They need to ban him for good and be done with it. Even Facebook of all companies have banned him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭CharlieHaghy


    Twitter police with massive hard on isn’t normal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    wes wrote: »
    They need to ban him for good and be done with it. Even Facebook of all companies have banned him.

    He generates way too much traffic on the site for Twitter to ever ban him. It's all about the money


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,589 ✭✭✭touts


    After threatening to arrest them his next rally will be interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    wes wrote: »
    They need to ban him for good and be done with it. Even Facebook of all companies have banned him.

    They need to make his account private and unfollowable, but not tell him.

    He can spend his remaining years sitting in a man-nappy in Mar a Lago, chomping on cheeseburgers and dribbling his brainfarts into a ‘special secret’ corner of the internet.

    He should be told about it on his deathbed. Just to see the look on his face.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭Monokne


    He generates way too much traffic on the site for Twitter to ever ban him. It's all about the money

    This.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,282 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    He should be entitled to tweet sh!te like the rest of us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops



    Hallelujah, he's thrown in the towel, finally .....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    He should be entitled to tweet Leftwing sh!te like the rest of us

    FYP, there is only one type of politik allowed on Social Media these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Hallelujah, he's thrown in the towel, finally .....

    Not a chance


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭hurikane


    Was looking for Don Conroy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    hurikane wrote: »
    Was looking for Don Conroy

    He draws a good bird to be fair. But he can't pull them like Donald can


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    He didn’t write that speech, he most likely had zero input into its content and it’s clear he didn’t mean one single word of it either. The GOP made him make that speech in a damage limitation exercise but it’s too late for that now. He has destroyed so much in the last 4 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    He didn’t write that speech, he most likely had zero input into its content and it’s clear he didn’t mean one single word of it either. The GOP made him make that speech in a damage limitation exercise but it’s too late for that now. He has destroyed so much in the last 4 years.

    It must have galled him to make the speech. He'll be a lonely old man with criminal charges pending this time 2 weeks


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 285 ✭✭Hellokitty1212


    It must have galled him to make the speech. He'll be a lonely old man with criminal charges pending this time 2 weeks

    Beat me to it - was just about to say that must have killed him.


  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Gage Fancy Scam


    As always with The Donald, it's all about self preservation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    As always with The Donald, it's all about self preservation.

    100%. Can't see any way for the republicans to make a positive out of this latest escapade though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    After yesterday it looks like has a future as a Jim Jones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,209 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    100%. Can't see any way for the republicans to make a positive out of this latest escapade though.

    They’ll probably in true cuntybollocks right winger style tell the Americans.. “hey, don’t blame US...YOU voted for him ! “

    They tend to enjoy covering their own failures by throwing others, everybody else under the bus..


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    He barely paused for breath making that speech. It just reeked of insincerity, I'd say Mitch McConnell and co literally held a gun to his head and told him he had to make it. And even then he somehow managed to big himself up while lying about how quickly he sent the National guard in.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Probably the most insincere speech I have ever seen, the man was inciting and encouraging insurrectionists in Capitol Hill just the other day.

    He's an total embarrassment to his country at this stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Zaph wrote: »
    He barely paused for breath making that speech. It just reeked of insincerity, I'd say Mitch McConnell and co literally held a gun to his head and told him he had to make it. And even then he somehow managed to big himself up while lying about how quickly he sent the National guard in.

    The deep state made him do it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Endintheclowns


    Absolute top notch entertainer. He'll be missed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Joe Don Dante


    He draws a good bird to be fair. But he can't pull them like Donald can

    Bob Ross


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    endacl wrote: »
    They need to make his account private and unfollowable, but not tell him.

    He can spend his remaining years sitting in a man-nappy in Mar a Lago, chomping on cheeseburgers and dribbling his brainfarts into a ‘special secret’ corner of the internet.

    He should be told about it on his deathbed. Just to see the look on his face.

    Free speech and all that. Twitter should let him tweet but block retweets and not count likes. Like starving a fire from oxygen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,434 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Why are people even following him, I just ignore him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Not a chance

    No, I think I'm right, Trump is finally conceding defeat.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You'd wonder where ye will all get yer two minutes of hate when he goes away..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    If Twitter dropped him for good, he would find a corner of the internet that would not be dark for long, and be a big loss for them.

    He will be back and stronger unless impeached, since this would be the constitutional way of preventing another presidency.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    If Twitter dropped him for good, he would find a corner of the internet that would not be dark for long, and be a big loss for them. .

    Parler is where he would end up preaching to his flock if Twitter banned him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    Damage limitation to avert 25th amendment getting him and to distance himself from any criminal charges relating to the deaths which occured on the day..............

    Or he could be just weally, weally sowwwwry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Free speech and all that. Twitter should let him tweet but block retweets and not count likes. Like starving a fire from oxygen.

    Banning him from Twitter isn’t curtailing his right to free speech.

    Same as here. If I act the bollix on this site I’ll be banned. I’ll still be able to say what I was saying. Boards just won’t host it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Why are people even following him, I just ignore him?

    I followed him but don't anymore as he used to anger me so much however I just wish he read all the replies to his own tweets then i'd follow him again and abuse/insult his low intelligence fat orange face at every opportunity.

    I often wondered does he have a script writer for twitter or does he tweet from his own phone with out ok'ing it with his PR team?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    He should be entitled to tweet sh!te like the rest of us
    most peoples ****e-tweeting doesn't lead to deaths.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    endacl wrote: »
    They need to make his account private and unfollowable, but not tell him.

    He can spend his remaining years sitting in a man-nappy in Mar a Lago, chomping on cheeseburgers and dribbling his brainfarts into a ‘special secret’ corner of the internet.

    He should be told about it on his deathbed. Just to see the look on his face.

    No they should slowly make his account follow all kinds of kinky and odd stuff but hide it from him. Think the furry lovers and more.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭The Wizards Sleeve


    What a c unt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭Feisar


    endacl wrote: »
    Banning him from Twitter isn’t curtailing his right to free speech.

    Same as here. If I act the bollix on this site I’ll be banned. I’ll still be able to say what I was saying. Boards just won’t host it.

    When a platform is as big as Twitter it does amount to curtailing his free speech though. While technically you are correct.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Feisar wrote: »
    When a platform is as big as Twitter it does amount to curtailing his free speech though. While technically you are correct.



  • Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Gage Fancy Scam


    Feisar wrote: »
    When a platform is as big as Twitter it does amount to curtailing his free speech though. While technically you are correct.

    But free speech doesn't protect 'Incitement' or 'Fighting Words', both of which he has fallen foul of an incalculable number of times.

    He has also fallen foul of 'Obscenity' and 'Defamation', although admittedly those are flimsier rulings and tougher to prove.


    The First Amendment is a fine document, but it isn't as all protecting as advertised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    I think at this stage the biggest problem with removing him is that Pence will become president and will have the capacity to pardon Trump. Am I wrong about this?


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    I think at this stage the biggest problem with removing him is that Pence will become president and will have the capacity to pardon Trump. Am I wrong about this?

    Given how Trump threw Pence under the bus, I somehow doubt that Mike is going to be in a pardoning mood.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Zaph wrote: »
    Given how Trump threw Pence under the bus, I somehow doubt that Mike is going to be in a pardoning mood.

    Hard to know when it comes to these guys


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I think at this stage the biggest problem with removing him is that Pence will become president and will have the capacity to pardon Trump. Am I wrong about this?

    The biggest practical problem is that Trump will only be president for 12 days anyway, and given that the Democrats in Congress couldn't get him out despite their efforts over the past 4 years, it's highly unlikely they'll be able to suddenly do it in less than two weeks.

    But lets pretend it did happen.

    Ford pardoned Nixon. No reason to think Pence wouldn't pardon Trump, if only to avoid a major schism in the Republican party.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Feisar wrote: »
    When a platform is as big as Twitter it does amount to curtailing his free speech though. While technically you are correct.

    Technically correct is the best kind of correct!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Zaph wrote: »
    Given how Trump threw Pence under the bus, I somehow doubt that Mike is going to be in a pardoning mood.

    Well Pence is supposedly a man of strong faith and morals, yet he hitched his wagon to a compulsive liar, serial cheater and one of the best/worst example of pride you can find. I don't expect him to grow a spine any time soon.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,037 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    That made the Tiger Woods apology almost seem sincere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i wonder is he tempted to use those nuclear codes ??

    "fuk it if i'm going down everyone is going down with me!!!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    fryup wrote: »
    i wonder is he tempted to use those nuclear codes ??

    "fuk it if i'm going down everyone is going down with me!!!"

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought that topic up with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley today. According to reports "she has gotten assurances there are safeguards in place in the event Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon, according to multiple sources on a caucus call."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-speaker-joint-chiefs-milley/index.html

    I think one of those safeguards (maybe the only one) is that the Secretary Of Defence needs to verify the order. There's a question over whether he can legally fail to do so, but in any event, if he objects, he can either resign or just refuse to do it (and potentially face some legal consequences). In either case, the President can obviously appoint a new Secretary Of Defence and try again. This process could keep on happening until either the President finds a SoD that will comply, or something else happens to stop the process (I'd say Pence and the rest of Cabinet would be keen to invoke the 25th at that point).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought that topic up with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley today. According to reports "she has gotten assurances there are safeguards in place in the event Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon, according to multiple sources on a caucus call."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-speaker-joint-chiefs-milley/index.html

    I think one of those safeguards (maybe the only one) is that the Secretary Of Defence needs to verify the order. There's a question over whether he can legally fail to do so, but in any event, if he objects, he can either resign or just refuse to do it (and potentially face some legal consequences). In either case, the President can obviously appoint a new Secretary Of Defence and try again. This process could keep on happening until either the President finds a SoD that will comply, or something else happens to stop the process (I'd say Pence and the rest of Cabinet would be keen to invoke the 25th at that point).

    trump could have his very own saturday night massacre


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    It would seem his account has been removed forever...


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