The Don is back on Twitter

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.

endacl

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

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.

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?

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.

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.

The Wizards Sleeve

What a c unt.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo

Feisar

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.

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?

Zaph

Infernal Racket wrote: »

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.

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

Gregor Samsa

Infernal Racket wrote: »

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.

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!

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.

Say Your Number

That made the Tiger Woods apology almost seem sincere.

fryup

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

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

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).

ohnonotgmail

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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

Infernal Racket

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

theguzman

Infernal Racket wrote: »

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

Permanently banned, Apple and Google are now trying to nuke Parler from their systems also.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/tech/trump-twitter-ban/index.html

Gregor Samsa

Michael Flynn (Former National Security Advisor) and Sidney Powell (attorney Trump was using to contest the election) are gone from Twitter too.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-michael-flynn-sidney-powell-qanon-account-purge-n1253550

alchemist33

He'll be down to a Bebo account by Monday

Larbre34

We're burning crazies tonight it seems.

I'll put on some coffee.

SouthWesterly

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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).

That was a thought provoking read . Do we still have our iodine tablets?

silliussoddius

Infernal Racket wrote: »

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

It's the worst thing to happen to human knowledge since the destruction of the library of Alexandria.

Gregor Samsa

SouthWesterly wrote: »

That was a thought provoking read . Do we still have our iodine tablets?

To be clear, I don’t think I there’s a real chance Trump will attempt a unilateral nuclear attack on anyone. I’m merely speculating on what the “safeguards” are that Pelosi discussed.

Which is fortunate, because I sold my iodine tablets to a group of gullible ravers at Oxegen 2004.

theguzman

Parler has been banned from the Google Play store tonight. These bigtech sycophants think they are the Ministry of Truth.

Northernlily

theguzman wrote: »

Parler has been banned from the Google Play store tonight. These bigtech sycophants think they are the Ministry of Truth.

About time Tbh.

This is it

Too little, too late.