| the potus seems to be using this as toxic fodder to ambush morning joe repeatedly with, and it also has the other purpose of daring twitter to delete these tweets. hence if twitter does do that then that actually politically helps him, so it is odd that morning joe cannot extrapolate that. the wisest thing would probably be to pay no heed to any of his tweets as they are just giving it a wider platform which is surely one of the primary aims, to distract as everyone knows. hell is other people as sartre stated. understandably it's painful to have falsehoods tweeted to gigantic populations on "social" media. still, a whole bunch of jerks looking at trump's tweets (even the number that supposedly "follow" him) cannot take away from someone else's memory of someone else. that person's memory is only of those who knew them. so this seems to be a situation of giving too much power, or any at all, to something that doesn't deserve it. stop giving it oxygen would most likely be the best course possible? what are the alternatives? for morning joe to plead it is cruel? for some reason don't think that is going to be effective with the present occupant of the white house. the irony is that if now twitter deletes these tweets trump then gets some palpable political gain. am convinced this precisely is another version of what trump did to activate impeachment proceedings (which pelosi did not want to do, but was then forced to, by him). this man should try to not let other people take his memories, as they cannot. twitter is merely a lot of meaningless noise, like all the other corporate platforms, and generally much like the wider internet in the sense that it is a repository inauthentic to personal reality. if trump loses to biden, or if he wins and lives another 4 years, after that he could probably successfully sue trump for libel. not that that is any consolation. now to actual "news". "we need to build a robust healthcare system", and what does the supposed democratic nominee say? "will veto real healthcare if congress ever miraculously passed it". david brooks truly is on a 14.4kbps modem. and nothing like david brooks' delusions to "make us feel uplifted". brooks is always so goddamn presumptuous. eugene is right though about tuning the potus out. basically it is either that, don't let him phase you, or full on-board the personality cult train. and time to eat less meat, the least of american problems. |