“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Sorry, but you still lack the moral authority to speak on the subject. All Trump supporters do. Your response is irrelevant.
On topic: Trump is still claiming he won the election even to this day. Simply put, he is continuing the lie -- probably because he knows his supporters, like @Kellhound there, are part of a cult and will attend his suicide-cult raliles (just ask Herman Cain) and send him money. McConnell had his chance, but did nothing, and is therefore allowing Trump to run the party even out of office. Attacking Trump for who he still is, what he still claims to believe, and the acts he personally did to damage the country (anything from manufacturing-killing tariffs to inciting a murderous insurrection) will be valid for some time, because Trump wants them to be.
All he has to do to make the attacks vanish is disappear.
If it keeps him banned from all relevant social media and makes him a political pariah to the legitimate news agencies... so be it. As far as I know he's still banned, and most news agencies seem to have caught on that giving the rambling ape a platform for every nonsensical bit of crap he slings might not actually be the best look for them.
If I recall correctly there was a demonstrable effect on the reduction of fake news stories and conspiracy theories flooding Twitter, facebook, and so forth after Trump found himself banned. If him trying to be vocal about it means that he's effectively silenced for doing so, then I'd say it's the best we could hope for, as he clearly wont give up the grift and the GOP is clearly too scared about losing his followers to act with a modicum of decency or moral fiber.
The only thing keeping me from delighting in the irony of the GOP squirming at the monster they created, set loose, and then sat idly by while it broke things as it's now finally coming for them is the non-impossibility of him regaining some form of office.
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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
“Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.” -- Donald J. Trump, 2013
"I don't take responsibility at all." -- Donald J. Trump, 2020
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
More like "mocking individual people, even as a group, who now face the consequences of their stupid-ass decisions is okay, mocking people of an entire class just because you're a bigoted fuckwit is not".
Mocking "conservatives" because of idiot Nazis, for instance, would be an example of the latter. Mocking the idiot Nazis, however, would be the former.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ns/4491855001/
So Arizona wants to literally ban all their state agencies from social media. Sorry, Arizonans, you can't check Twitter or FB to get the latest health and safety updates. Republicans want to make this harder for normal people because they think that social media companies are mean to Republicans.
With the PA count finished. a Final look at the map.
- Biden won 224 congressional districts / Dems Won 222 Seats
- Donald Trump won 211 congressional districts / GOP Won 213 Seats
Dems need to prioritize the Voter Rights Restoration.
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I'm generally a fan of snapping all social media out of existence, but the ADOT twitter feed is legitimately informative, and funny to boot. This feels like petty revenge, and coming from Scottsdale that's no surprise; though I don't entirely disagree that lacking an in-house government announcement system is probably not the best. But, like the ACA, there's a strong sense of "repeal with no plan to replace" here.
Social media has plenty of its own issues and I still largely loath it, don't get me wrong.
But I'm all for making important information as easily available as possible to folks. So like, if that means the ADOT posts on their site, twitter, fb, instagram, snapchat, tik tok, reddit, and whatever else da keeds are using today, I'm here for it.