Biden: Twitter Should Call Out Trump Conspiracies

Former Vice President Joe Biden expressed dissatisfaction over Twitter refusing to take action against President Trump in light of his tweets stoking baseless conspiracy theories, during an interview that aired on CNN Tuesday afternoon.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1310990
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Twitter should be doing a lot things.

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Keep kickin’ ass, Joe! Let 'em have it!

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the tRUmp “presidency” would not exist without twitter, period.

he is shit at communicating in any coherent fashion, which even the dimmest bulbs in the world could recognize during the daily covid press debacle

if there were any fairness in the twitterverse we would have been spared tRUmp’s nonsense and hate based purely on adhering to the posted terms of use, but since they carved out a special shit bucket for tRUmp to vomit into we have been tormented endlessly,

twitter could have put reasonable limits on tRUmp’s account if he was too important to ban as they have suggested, forcing him to use twitter only for actual policy discussion, twitter should have never allowed him to use the platform as they have

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Twitter is sort of like group therapy.

But for narcissistic psychopaths who don’t actually want to get better.

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Let’s review the bidding here:

Twitter has a duty to call out Trump for conspiracy theories in gossip he tweets about a media figure, but Congress has no duty to in any way call out Trump for his conspiracy theories about actual public policy, even as it hands him $5 trillion in new money.

What could make more sense?

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Why can’t Joe Scarborough sue Trump for slander, libel and defamation of character? Accusing someone of murder is not political speech.

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Biden has updated his Twitter profile picture:

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Somebody’s upset.

Twitter banned political ads on their own. There was nothing for Brad to pull.

Southpaw has a point.

Twitter’s poked the naked mole rats’ nest.

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What is remarkable here is that a candidate running for president is calling out Twitter for giving his opponent a platform to peddle in conspiracy theories; no one is staying on point and hammering Trump for even contemplating conspiracy theories and magical “thinking”.

I don’t fault Joe for going after Twitter, but he really needs to start putting Trump’s sanity on trial. Only Joe Biden could get away with ridiculing Trump’s many conspiracy driven rants by ending his monologue with “this man is a nutcase who doesn’t belong in the White House. The only thing white that he belongs in, is a straight jacket.”

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Sure, Brad, it wasn’t because your entire audience (QAnon support group) was banned and had to go to 4chan.

Babs thanks ya!

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If media sites that are critical of you are “biased”, then what do you call media sites that are supportive of you, Bradley? Last time I checked, bias works both ways, and it’s not a bad thing in itself. Seems to me that you only like one kind of bias, and what you’re really saying is that you don’t like media sites that are critical of you, period, so spare us the pseudo-academic palaver.

Bradley can’t handle criticism. That’s what this is really all about. That, plus playing the refs and actually biasing Americans against Trump critics. It’s a mindfuck game and it’s what they do.

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That’s a big f^ckin’ group.

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Fascists? Lowercase nazis? Racists?

I got all night.

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Yeah, and number 1 should be watching a boycott take place that decimates their revenue and use.

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You’re such a hater. With good cause.

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He even looks like a skinhead.

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I agree. Dems have to pivot from Trump is unqualified to be president and is terrible at it to Trump’s a stark raving lunatic and clueless imbecile who’s a grave threat to the republic and world and must be put out this fall. Or, as I like to call it, impeachment by the voters.

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Brad Parsnip?

Meh…

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Pay more attention. Biden has indeed been questioning Trumps fitness and mental health/capacity. I get it…we want to hear it like a drumbeat…we also want to hear policy like a drumbeat and calling Trump a liar like a drumbeat and a whole host of other drumbeats and it never fails that someone says “but what about this other drumbeat” whenever an article comes out about Biden saying something about anything. People need to relax and accept he cant say it all every time. He’d look hysterical.

Instead he responded here in a way that is sane, right, appropriate, mature, measured, succinct, morally correct and presidential. That’s good. Real good. People out there are desperate for it. Joe can convince them and do it well. The gaffe smear silliness wont stick when overshadowed by the absolutely heartless narcissistic mess Trump spews while Biden talks sense and exudes empathy. If we focus on filling the time we spend sharing our words making those words supportive and positive, rather than tearing him down, it can only help.

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