Recently a rogue employee at Twitter deleted Donald Trump’s account on his or her way out the door. For 11 glorious minutes, sanity was restored to this country. It was wonderful. That employee will probably never have to pay for a drink in a bar again.
Since then, the news has been focused on the lack of security at Twitter. How dare anyone delete this account? Well, yes, Trump violates their terms of service on a regular basis, but still…
Personally, I think the focus should lie elsewhere. The presidential office should not be used as a bully pulpit, and there should be no forum that makes it easy for him to do so. His 140 character missives do nothing but cause chaos.
Here’s what Trump doesn’t seem to get: Tweets are not policies. They’re not legislation. They’re not budgets, they’re not directives, they’re not orders. They’re opinions.
In this case, they are the opinions of an overly-powerful, emotionally unstable little man with poor impulse control and an apparent inability to sleep through the night. They come off as the temper tantrums of a toddler. You couldn’t get farther away from reasoned discourse if you strapped a rocket to your butt and aimed for the moon.
Tweeting is Trump’s way of meddling in things that are well out of his sphere of influence, such as the verdicts of judges. I know competence takes effort, but perhaps if he attempted it now and again, he’d be too busy to stick his porky nose where it shouldn’t be.
That rogue employee deserves a medal. He or she simply told Trump what the vast majority of people in this country have been longing to say for months now: STFU and do your job. How’s that for a tweet?
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I solved that problem by blocking his sorry orange butt. His family, too.
That solves it for you, but not for the nation, unfortunately.
He likes the attention. We need to stop giving it to him.
It would have been epic if everyone in the tiny crowd simply turned their backs while he did his inauguration speech, and continued that trend moving forward, but humans slow down to look at traffic accidents after all.
Strap what to whose butt and send him where? 🙂
Heh heh. 🙂
I don’t tweet, twitter or otherwise. No way would I let this buffoon’s direct thoughts into my house. Bad enough to see what makes it to the news. I agree for once with the former Presidents Bush:45 is a blowhard who has no idea what it means to be president. He is a scammer who is always looking to make the next buck and doesn’t care who he has to step on to get his hands on that dollar.
True. And I never thought I’d be nostalgic for either of the Bushes, but I’d be thrilled at this point to have anyone else, pretty much.
Whenever I hear the term ‘twitter’ I can’t help but think of a ‘twit’. ( Not wanting to be a twit, I too have never tweeted, twittered or willingly accessed others tweets.)
Definition of twit
1 :a silly annoying person :fool
Hey, in this case, if the definition fits… 🙂
If only these tweets were just the simple words of a fool we could all laugh instead of worry.
Yes. Therein lies the problem. I briefly attempted to Tweet to spread news of my book, but it didn’t last long. It’s just not my thing.