∞∞∞ wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:19 pmYou're completely out-of-touch if you think Obama has been vocal after leaving office. If anything, his side wants him to be more prominent. Like most important people, he says things during significant moments, but the dude's been fairly out of the spotlight since leaving.
We'll probably hear from Trump EVERYDAY after he leaves office.
Is she running again...?
In her own mind....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsole ... 8a8cb34bddAs part of an effort to refute a recent flurry of bad polling, the Trump campaign sent a cease and desist letter to CNN demanding they apologize and retract a poll showing former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a wide margin, which CNN refused to do.
I’ll wait for BDK to tell me how this isn’t the act of a petulant child.kalm wrote:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsole ... 8a8cb34bddAs part of an effort to refute a recent flurry of bad polling, the Trump campaign sent a cease and desist letter to CNN demanding they apologize and retract a poll showing former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a wide margin, which CNN refused to do.
No, it is. Good news is, nobody watches it, so it’s irrelevant.
Lawlz
Don't watch CNN. Don't know what you're talking about. Don't care.
I’ll explain it to you. Trump sent an angry letter to CNN asking them to quit talking about his shitty poll numbers.
So?
it’s a Forbes article.
You don’t get it. I’m not shocked. READ THE ARTICLE!
Eh, Trump is fairly benign when it comes to his Twitter rants. I get it that he's the President and has the weight of the office behind him, but he's also a certifiable buffoon and clown so much of it is just bluster, and most of it stays as just that, bluster without action. If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests. Sure, it's on some of them for not being able to read the room and know what would and wouldn't be accepted, but when folks get summarily dismissed from newspaper jobs, especially from the opinion sections of newspapers, simply because they didn't toe the line of accepted opinion, I think that makes Trump's midnight Twitter tirades look as inconsequential as they are.
This was a letter sent from his lawyers to CNN. It wasn't a tweet (he may have tweeted about it, i don't know). But it's just another example of his dumbfuckery at work.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 amEh, Trump is fairly benign when it comes to his Twitter rants. I get it that he's the President and has the weight of the office behind him, but he's also a certifiable buffoon and clown so much of it is just bluster, and most of it stays as just that, bluster without action. If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests. Sure, it's on some of them for not being able to read the room and know what would and wouldn't be accepted, but when folks get summarily dismissed from newspaper jobs, especially from the opinion sections of newspapers, simply because they didn't toe the line of accepted opinion, I think that makes Trump's midnight Twitter tirades look as inconsequential as they are.
Lighten up, Francis. I simply took it as funny rather than a real threat to the 1A.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 amEh, Trump is fairly benign when it comes to his Twitter rants. I get it that he's the President and has the weight of the office behind him, but he's also a certifiable buffoon and clown so much of it is just bluster, and most of it stays as just that, bluster without action. If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests. Sure, it's on some of them for not being able to read the room and know what would and wouldn't be accepted, but when folks get summarily dismissed from newspaper jobs, especially from the opinion sections of newspapers, simply because they didn't toe the line of accepted opinion, I think that makes Trump's midnight Twitter tirades look as inconsequential as they are.
I took it as another eyeroll moment.kalm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:56 amLighten up, Francis. I simply took it as funny rather than a real threat to the 1A.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 am
Eh, Trump is fairly benign when it comes to his Twitter rants. I get it that he's the President and has the weight of the office behind him, but he's also a certifiable buffoon and clown so much of it is just bluster, and most of it stays as just that, bluster without action. If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests. Sure, it's on some of them for not being able to read the room and know what would and wouldn't be accepted, but when folks get summarily dismissed from newspaper jobs, especially from the opinion sections of newspapers, simply because they didn't toe the line of accepted opinion, I think that makes Trump's midnight Twitter tirades look as inconsequential as they are.
That's not what freedom of the press is, Professor Ganny.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 am If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests.
Nope. That's just another day in the life of left-wing, mind-control America.Skjellyfetti wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:53 amThat's not what freedom of the press is, Professor Ganny.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 am If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests.
Nah, I'd argue that there's more damage to the freedom of the press due to the cancel culture, the Twitter/social media/doxing culture, and the withdraw of tolerance than there is from the clumsy arresting, on camera, of a handful of journalists covering a protest (especially when they don't arrest the journalists that are covering and filming the other journalists being arrested). The latter is just clumsy and doomed to failure, whereas the former is much more insidious and pernicious, and has been far more successful.Skjellyfetti wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:53 amThat's not what freedom of the press is, Professor Ganny.GannonFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:14 am If you're that concerned about the freedom of the press, I'd be more concerned about the quick removal of several newspaper editors for either flippant or not-reverent enough stances relative to the current direction and thought of this country following the Floyd protests.
Arresting and assaulting journalists covering the protests is a better example.
He's never been in danger of losing his base, just the Dems that broke ranks and voted for him.HI54UNI wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:13 am There's no doubt that Trump is a petulant child regarding the press. But I must've missed all the concern about Barry and crew when they were:
Spying on reporter James Rosen and his family on a leak investigation
Labeling Fox as illegitimate and Fox's point of view as ultimately destructive
Spying on reporter Sharyl Attkisson with no warrant or court order
And Trump is smart like a fox. Now instead of people talking about the bad poll numbers they are talking about the bad orange man trying to stifle the press. Riles his base up and they love him even more.
AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:12 pm1) Not even remotely like the shitshow that’s been ongoing by the left since Trump was elected.∞∞∞ wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:47 am I'm gonna make two (not so wild) predictions for the 2020 elections:
1. If Biden wins, November through January will be a complete shit show. If you thought things are wild now...
2. Trump will be everywhere if he leaves office. We'll be CONSTANTLY hearing from him until his death, and this nation will essentially have two Presidents: Biden with influential executive powers and Trump with influential social powers.
2) So, you mean like Obama?
I wasn't talking about speeches, Myron.
Obama has laid low for the most part.