Joyce White Vance to trump tweet about shutting down twitter - this is how the 1st Amendment works

[iluvtennis]

Joyce Alene@JoyceWhiteVance·4h
So, this is how the 1st Amendment actually works. You can't shut down Twitter because you're the gov't. The 1st Amendment protects our right to speak up here & remind the world you're responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Americans no matter how you try to distract from that.

@realDonaldTrump
Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!

Link to tweet

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Bravo Joyce.

[leftieNanner]

1. Love Joyce!

Wish Rachel were doing more in the political realm instead of just Covid19 all the time.

I miss Joyce (and Barbara McQuaid, and Chuck Rosenberg, and Michael Beschloss.....) and her commentary on our life and times.

[coti]

2. Bingo. Nailed it.

Trump doesn't realize that the 1st Amendment and "free speech" mean everyone gets to trash him, and he can't do shit about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. The Big Action

He's switching to Instagram.
What are his choices? Telegraph?

[SidDithers]

4. GAB was making a play to him to switch...

He'd fit right in with the racist asshats on GAB.

Sid

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Figures

Except they don't have the billion already on board.
But, it's a big move, and he can't do what he thinks he can do.

[Cha]

5. Retweeted! TY, Joyce Vance!

[trof]

6. I am proud to call her a fellow Alabamian.

[Eyeball_Kid]

8. I'd love to see Trumpy-boy shut down Twitter. He'd be shooting himself in the head.

Trump is just blowing smoke. He has no interest in shutting down his life-blood. He survives by using Twitter. Were he to cut himself off from Twitter, his approvals would immediately drop 15 points. His base would forget his name.

Yeah, First Amendment, etc, etc. Trumpy-boy only cares about HIM, not everyone else. But he'd NEVER shut it down anyway, even if he could.

[shanti]

20. Why doesn't he just post on Facebook?

He'd have people to argue with there too.

[mopinko]

9. truth.

[gademocrat7]

10. Joyce Alene is a very savvy former US Attorney.

[Mme. Defarge]

11. I would suggest this correction and update:

The 1st Amendment protects our right to speak up here & remind the world you're an impeached president who will never be exonerated, and responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Americans no matter how you try to distract from that.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Been down this road before in America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.[1][nb 1] They made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen (Naturalization Act), allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous ("An Act Concerning Aliens", also known as the Alien Friends Act of 1798)[2] or who were from a hostile nation (Alien Enemy Act of 1798),[3] and criminalized making false statements that were critical of the federal government (Sedition Act of 1798).[4]

The Federalists argued that the bills strengthened national security during the Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France from 1798 to 1800. Critics argued that they were primarily an attempt to suppress voters who disagreed with the Federalist party and its teachings, and violated the right of freedom of speech in the First Amendment.[5]

[Lock him up.]

13. With the corona-orange, it's always just GD bullying.

"Big actions to follow" (then nothing happens)

"We will see what happens (then nothing happens)

"Coming up" (then nothing happens, even with his tax returns he said he would be "happy" to release them some 4+ years ago)

Meanwhile, cops await for a DNA sample to prove he is a disgusting rapist!

[Grokenstein]

21. One problem is that few follow up on his blatherings.

Early on someone quizzed him about that "investigative team" on its way back from Hawaii with "a yuge bombshell" about President Barack Obama's birth-cert. He went bonkers and bellowed that he didn't want to talk about that anymore. And that was that, because no one wanted to make the Angry Clown stomp away from the mic and spoil the circus performance that viewers wanted to see.

These days? Nobody even bothers to inquire about #Obamagreat (nee Obamagate). It's all about the fart noise he's making today, not the fart noise he made yesterday. He has the attention span of an elderly mayfly and he wants everyone to follow suit.

[Mr.Bill]

14. Trump should have been banned from Twitter

long before he was elected president. That's the lesson for other similar websites.

[lpbk2713]

15. He has no specifics as to what he is going to do.

Because as usual he has no idea what he is going to do.



Big action to follow.      

[sprinkleeninow]

22. we're gonna be witness to actions 'the likes of which have never been seen'..

[regnaD kciN]

16. Unfortunately, the First Amendment "works"...

...exactly how the current SCOTUS decides it works. With any other administration and court, I would be utterly convinced the president would suffer a humiliating defeat on this. With the current court...???

[spanone]

17. BRILLIANT!!!!

[ancianita]

18. I wouldn't mind her being either our new AG, or lead prosecutor of Biden's DOJ.

Her skill and wisdom are wasted in Alabama. The Democratic Party needs to have her in Washington.

[warmfeet]

19. We have no mechanism for removing this tyrant from

office. Impeachment, ya no, hahahaha.

He belongs in prison. We are counting on a fair election November 3rd. Sure hope it works. That is the last stand. We lose that, we lose everything.