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I wish we, as a society, could all just agree that tweets aren't news (Original Post)
Bucky
Dec 2018
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We'll be putting up "Miss me yet?" Trump memes when President Nugent governs thru Snapchats
Bucky
Jan 2019
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elleng
(130,861 posts)1. and sure as hell aren't LAWS!
I hope future presidents won't use them AT ALL.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)2. I totally agree.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)3. Well, when policy decisions
and Administration positions are announced via tweet then those tweets are, by definition, news. We dont have to like it, but there it is.
Bucky
(53,986 posts)7. We'll be putting up "Miss me yet?" Trump memes when President Nugent governs thru Snapchats
Ms. Toad
(34,059 posts)8. Not to mention when people are fired by tweets, as well. n/t
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. I wish Twitter would shut down his account permanently.
Give us all some peace.
VOX
(22,976 posts)6. Running the country via social media is unnecessarily corrosive, and it cheapens the presidency.
It's just a ripplingly bad idea to do it.
FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)9. Absolutely
Tweets aren't news and they don't (shouldn't) replace Presidential policy either.
Anyone who couldn't see it before the orange asshole can certainly see it now. I wish we could somehow ban the reporting of tweets here on DU. But I guess that isn't gonna happen. All we're doing is making the whole thing worse than it already is.