The Trump Presidency: Part 21

[Stacyhs]

No, it was started by Captain Swoop in this post

Quote:
"I happen to be taking it right now, yeah"

Trump claims he's taking hydroxychloroquine, he claims the White House doctor signed off on him taking it.

Jeff Mason of Reuters asked. "What is the evidence that hydroxychloroquine has a preventative impact?"
Trump said "Are you ready? Here's my evidence, I get a lot of positive calls about it, what do you have to lose?"

“I’m taking it on the advice of my exceptional, terrific person, who happened to be also very a regular guy doctor, Dr. Dennison believe me”

Yep. That's where I got it. I think it's understandable why a lot of us believed it was an actual quote. We need to be more careful about posting things that look like quotes when they're not. Remember that Poe's law has never been more true than with Trump.

 

[dmaker]

Ugh, the moron just took a plastic face shield he was playing with and tried to hand it to a reporter. Finally, someone actually accepted it.

Idiot.

 

[Stacyhs]

The Oregon Republican Senate nominee is an unapologetic QAnon conspiracy theorist

As an Oregonian, this disgusts me. What's that phrase I'm not supposed to use again? Totally true here.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump today:

"I tested very positively in another sense this morning, yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right? I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."

He just said not wearing a mask sets an example both ways?

WTF does that mean? The nonsense that he says is crazy.

Sadly, it makes perfect sense to his base.

 

[Bob001]

As an Oregonian, this disgusts me. What's that phrase I'm not supposed to use again? Totally true here.

This is another illustration of the need for ranked choice voting. The other candidates together actually won the majority of votes, but they split it three ways.

 

[a_unique_person]

OK, here's another guess: The President's statements do not just "disappear".



Prove me wrong.

Swoop made a mistake and rather than just point it out, you went all passive aggressive. For what end?

 

[Matthew Best]

Swoop made a mistake and rather than just point it out, you went all passive aggressive. For what end?

I wanted to know if Trump had actually said the thing that Swoop said he did.

So I asked him.

He lied to me about it.

I pointed this out.

What's your problem with that?

 

[Norman Alexander]

10 open "Twitter" as file #1 for output
i=1
while i>0
print #1, "WE LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP! HE IS SO GREAT!"
end while

More accurately:

10 откройте «Твиттер» как файл № 1 для вывода
I = 1
пока I> 0
печать № 1, «МЫ ЛЮБИМ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ ТРУМП! ОН ТАК БОЛЬШОЙ!»
конец пока

 

[Ladewig]

Trump today:

"I tested very positively in another sense this morning, yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right? I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."

Wait, what?!

Someone get this guy some help.

 

[Matthew Best]

"But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."

No, it isn't.

 

[Matthew Best]

Double post.

 

[carlitos]

 

[Norman Alexander]

"I tested very positively in another sense this morning, yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right? I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."

Indeed! And the USA has the most positive worst death figures in the world due to COVID-19. So much winning!

 

[eerok]

I'm positive that Trump's presidency has been a huge, stinking negative, so there's that.

 

[Aridas]

The President can delete them, and has done so on several occasions, I believe.

I'm sure you both know this, but twitter is the medium. Anything Trump tweets from his POTUS account is an official statement from the office of the President of the United States.

Official statements from the office of the President of the United States do not just disappear.

Legally, at least. Presidential Records Act, IIRC. That doesn't stop Trump from deleting tweets at will. On inquiry about that previously in relation to potential violations of the PRA, empty assurances that it was all being handled were given.

As a related side note, there's also stories about Trump habitually ripping up and throwing away documents that fall under the PRA and that White House staff was effectively going behind his back to go through the trash and piece those documents back together.

I'm going to rule (with my incredible authority) that there's no need to fight about this. By the evidence at hand, Trump has little to no regard for the PRA, like so much of the rest of the law. That leaves upholding it to staff that's generally repeatedly been combed through by the loyalty police and, when it comes to outlets like twitter, watchdog accounts. How much you want to trust them to catch all of Trump's potentially illegal actions and make them not quite actually breaking the law technically is up to you, of course.

Wow. He believes news organizations should be helping Republicans get elected....

He's not wrong, though, Fox has been helping Republicans get elected since the beginning. Still, he's saying it out loud when Fox still tries to claim it's "fair and balanced" in a way.

"Fair and balanced" was officially dropped as a slogan years ago, IIRC.

 

[thaiboxerken]

"Fair and balanced" was officially dropped as a slogan years ago, IIRC.

Yes, but they still try to present themselves as a legitimate news organization, which they are not.

 

[Stacyhs]

"Fair and balanced" was officially dropped as a slogan years ago, IIRC.

August 2016 was the last time it was used. I guess even they couldn't handle the hypocrisy of that!

 

[SezMe]

Trump Retweeted

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
RT if President Trump should withhold federal funds to states that try to STEAL our elections with voter fraud!

What does the RT stand for?

 

[Matthew Best]

Re-tweet?

 

[SezMe]

The Oregon Republican Senate nominee is an unapologetic QAnon conspiracy theorist

Too bad that's not a negative in the eye4s of some Republican voters. The inland areas of Oregon harbor some real loons.