Watching the World Burn

Just to be clear: The president can’t take away statutory legal protections, and we shouldn’t indulge the idea that he can. His job is to uphold the law, not negate it. https://t.co/A4I2igCozl

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 28, 2020

Sad that we need to say that.  The media still hasn't figured out how to report on this clown.  That's another weakness exposed.

But he's totally not whiny and un-manly like a scared little boy https://t.co/WuwvoV5S0R

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 28, 2020

Donald Trump loves free speech and free enterprise so much that he'd use the powers of the presidency to shut down Twitter because it chose, as a private enterprise, to surround his speech with some more speech

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 28, 2020

Your free speech is what makes me feel free.  Otherwise it's just censorship.  Of me.

The anti-mask crowd is the same as the anti-vaccine crowd. Which is same as anti-seat belts crowd which is same as anti-fluoridated water crowd. It’s stupidity presented as individualism. Not novel, not quirky, not interesting. Just dumb. https://t.co/ZRCkqImWuT

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) May 28, 2020

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.  Especially since I'm old enough to remember the anti-flouride crowd.  Had they been more powerful, I'd probably be wearing dentures by now.  Just because nimrods have a voice, doesn't mean they have to be listened to.  At all.

I encourage everyone to actually read Section 230, because a lot of the public conversation around it just ignores what it actually says. https://t.co/1GaHpQk5kj

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) May 28, 2020

Another one of those conversations, huh?  Okay, I guess I better go read it....

Virtually every self described conservative in America found Trump repellant until he achieved, or was passed to achieve, power. So many reassessed their views to accord with the new power structure while condemning those who did not as unprincipled grifters. It's fascinating.

— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) May 28, 2020

As Kissinger observed, power is an aphrodisiac.

Twitter response to the EO https://t.co/iXi05Fc5eC

— CeciliaKang (@ceciliakang) May 29, 2020

And winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.  Trump is not winning.