Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[Tubey]

Earlier on you said that you were a pragmatist, yet you appear to be applying some loose ideological and subjective concepts here. Good luck to you, but I do not agree.

No I'm all for private enterprise - make money if you're good enough, good on you if you do.

But I just feel social media is a unique case, where a private companies ToS seems to be in danger of superceding law.

It's a difficult line to judge.

 

[Tin-Tin]

This could’ve been a quote from any time lol

The penny cant have just dropped. They enabled him now they cant control him.

He needs removing then I hope he destroys GOP and Graham/McConnell etc for being traitors. He will 100% come out with incriminating stuff when he's out as he's too stupid not to.

Also at least this puts any idea of him being able to run again in the bin

 

[Wat Tyler]

“Impeach the motherf-!”

 

[Shevin Keedy]

No I'm all for private enterprise - make money if you're good enough, good on you if you do.

But I just feel social media is a unique case, where a private companies ToS seems to be in danger of superceding law.

It's a difficult line to judge.

The highlighted bit is my point.

 

[Papa Shango]

Private companies can't just do what they want. Sometimes the requirements of society means regulation, in the same way a shop can't choose to say they don't serve blacks/gays/whatever.

No but they can absolutely bar someone from their shop for causing trouble can't they?

No real difference from someone being banned from here.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Presumably the President could always find another means of communication.

Or legislate for a change to social media laws.

I shudder to raise this but iirc the President has floor privileges and can go down and appear on the floor of Congress when they restart the vote.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Sassy Colombian]

“Impeach the motherf-!”

Music to my ears

 

[Tin-Tin]

“Impeach the motherf-!”

I think thr 25th will come before impeachment, especially as he was doubling down with his tweets and appeared to celebrate the riots. God knows what he will attempt to do in the next couple of weeks to massage his ego

 

[Tubey]

I wish I could be so confident

Biden inherits a situation where he'll be able to fairly easily set the economy on an upward curve, banish COVID and so on. Meanwhile he'll be able to attack Republicans at the mid terms with scenes like tonight as examples of what happened the last time Trumpism was in power.

Meanwhile, the US suburbs continue to grow and become more democratic year on year.

It's actually hard to imagine a road back for Trump or his zealots. I'm very confident he won't occupy the White House again.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I shudder to raise this but iirc the President has floor privileges and can go down and appear on the fkoor of Congress when they restart the vote.

Tweeting from the toilet is much more his style.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Omar has drawn up articles and has a few house members supporting but how long will that take?

 

[Tubey]

The highlighted bit is my point.

It's not ideologically driven though, in any way. Because I think the same concern is valid regardless of political view.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Omar has drawn up articles and has a few house members supporting but how long will that take?

I don’t know, the repubs delayed the other one

 

[RAFUH]

What was your take when the NFL censored Kaepernick?

This was overdue from Twitter given the circumstances but in general corporations censoring speech feels wrong to me.

Free speech is about protection from government sanction. It can still carry societal consequences. Twitter has rules. They have determined he is breaking them. He can move to Parler