Twitter, Facebook Not Invited To WH Social Media Summit

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Social media giants Twitter and Facebook haven’t been invited to the White House’s social media summit.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1233678
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Propaganda Summit

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Well, to be fair, they don’t invite actual climate scientists to discuss climate change either. Wouldn’t want to distress Donnie with facts, after all.

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No one is intersted in what those small time losers like Twitter and FaceBook have to say, they want consensus dammit!

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Wow, that’s really gotta hurt multi-billion dollar platforms whose services the republican lie machine can’t do without.
I bet facebook and twitter CEO’s are all broken up about not sitting down to listen to 45* bloviate for an hour and regret that they have to stay on their private beaches instead.

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Twitter and Facebook should demand to send suitable representatives. You know, the ones who just can’t seem to shake their nagging cough.

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They will miss out on the cold hamberders.

If Twitter cut him off for 48 hours, he’d be a quivering mess.

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“Pfft. I can afford to buy my own heat-lamp fries,” Zuckerberg said, when told of the snub.

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He’ll never get the fat to congeal just so.

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Touché.

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OT…kinda…Did you see that the Ag Dept has defunded the research on bees and hive collapse?

Fuckers.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/honey-bees-usda-data-collection-cut_n_5d22cbcee4b04c4814164f5f

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As a beekeeper, this depresses me. But you know the Dept of Ag needs money to pay off the corporate farmers who will lose their asses due to the tariff idiocy, so something like sensible data collection has to go.

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But, only in this administration does crop pollination have to go with it.

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Only to the extent that Republicans / Conservatives are posting abusive, sexist, racist, and/or white supremacist/fascism-glorifying comments.

Which I suppose means most Republican/Conservative comments.

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This will probably be happening down the hall from where Ivanka is meeting with the British trade secretary on Brexit developments. Just beyond parody.

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Poor, poor, petulant PP. My heart goes out to him for the abuse he suffers.

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If Twitter cut him off for 48 hours, he’d be a quivering mess.

And that’s exactly what Twitter should do, what can trump do about it? Try his hand at snapchat? Rage against the machine? Threaten them? Pfffffffffft…

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I heard it was because Trump lifted a ban on the use of neonic pesticides which have been linked to rapid declines in pollinator populations. It’s not a problem if you just ignore it, right?

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We always seem to get the worst possible presidents at the worst possible times…

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That would render the Dumpsterfire practically mute.
Foreign and Domestic policy management would come to an abrupt halt
Tens - if not hundreds - of bureaucrats and lawmakers would be able to focus on something other than damage control.

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