Tuesday, December 8, 2020

A Tough Day for the Arts

I don't know what is the best part of this Tweet: that Trump thinks that people making fun of him online is a National Security purpose worthy of vetoing a defense bill or the image of us reducing our "troupes" in foreign lands, because when we pull out our dancers and comedians, man....
 

The "National Monuments" he's concerned about are the Confederate ones. As always.  (I like monuments a little more accurate and timely, myself.) 

It's a highly idiosyncratic tantrum from the poor sport. Again.



2 comments:

mcfrank said...

And, as someone else pointed out, removing the section 230 protections means that Twitter could be sued for any libelous or defamatory statements that Trump makes as well.

Vixen Strangely said...

The upshot of which seems to be: Twitter will still exist, probably, with a bunch of new rules, but Trump's account--won't. (I think Trump's account is possibly endangered once he's no longer in office, anyway, although his staggering 2017-2020 output should probably be archived for POTUS posterity.)

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