TWITTERING AWAY

The light shines on the royal edict attempting to regulate by fiat. He has signed an executive order limiting legal protections of social media companies.  This after Twitter called two of his tweets “potentially misleading”. 

The two tweets were about the safety and security of mail-in ballots.  Trump, to the detriment of older voters, wants to make mail-in ballots difficult to impossible, which can adversely effect older voters. A choice of voting and potentially getting the virus and dying, or staying home.  I have personally mailed in my ballot for at least the last 25 years.  It’s safe, convenient and secure with the postal service.  Tampering with the mail is a federal offense, which is a deterrent to anyone that wants to commit fraud in any election.  There is zero instances any mail-in ballot fraud has had any impact on any federal election ever.  There was one instance where a group of republican operatives were harvesting ballots and were caught. This is going to be Trump vs. his mouthpiece- Twitter.  This could be a lose/lose for POTUS.

This light show could have fireworks built in on both sides.  Trump may well lose this battle. After all, he signed the usage agreement.  I’m sure the Twitter Thought Police have their line and verse ready.  I feel Trump’s inaccuracies, lies, and slander should have been pointed out but not censored, long ago with the same type of message posted to these two egregious tweets. 

Blanket immunity from liable and slander is currently available to tech companies which host content. This immunity is based on section 230 of the governing statute allowing these exemptions.  Trump in his own inimitable way, has written an Executive Order (E.O.) which attempts to pull the cord on liability.  This E.O. was concocted out of nothing within 24 hours of POTUS being informed on AF1, that Twitter had issued a warning on his two tweets.  The press secretary came out of the president’s cabin on AF1 and said he would put out an E.O today (29^th).  The scramble came as a result of the whim, and as a result, it was not well thought out. 

The White House wants a probe of the social media companies’ policies regarding their pledge to keep neutral on political matters.  Media companies want to run their companies their own way without interference.  Is this only another distraction?  Trump’s complaint to the FTC was Twitter has engaged in political bias.  This exercise is not about the law but about politics.

The problem comes when Trump posts a tweet that can be considered libelous or defamatory. The lack of immunity will obligate, for the sake of the shareholders, to take the offensive post down and not allow the content or they could be sued.  This will neuter Trump’s ability to be vial, lie, and distort, and well… be himself.   

He is in a battle he knows he cannot win, so why the fight? 100,000 deaths strong and climbing!  The light show has only started. Today (5/29) he accused children of harvesting ballots from the mailboxes. Huh? Trump said, “It’s happening you know. They are signing and turning in the ballots….” He says that without any evidence.  Is he giving out instructions to his dotard minions to commit federal crimes by suggesting this is a way to do what he would do, cheat on an election? Or is it because he has been often chided for projection, so he is using children in his lies now?

Is all this bluster about unproven voter fraud surrounding mail-in ballots?  This is another way Trump, if defeated, will point to a rigged election.  This to create a firestorm of doubt with his stupid base of followers, the dotards in training? After all, he set up the last election in the same manner.  If he lost he would have claimed it was stolen with fraud.  The entity he set up to prove fraud in the 2016 election came up empty and disbanded when they could not find that any significant fraud occurred.

Trump erroneously tweeted that California was sending out ballots to everyone.  This is not true.  California originally only sent out mail-in ballots to anyone requesting one.  Now with the virus, there is a choice, mail-in or go to the polls.  The California election commission matches signatures with the registered voters’ mail-in ballots, to avoid fraud.  It is made more secure due to using the USPS.  Anyone tampering with the mail may suffer a fine and up to 5 years in federal prison.  I would say that is quite a deterrent.  It has never been the voter that has attempt to throw an election, the fraud usually comes from the counters. 

This whole episode will backfire on Trump if he is not careful.  He knows it’s a red herring, but likes the fireworks. After all, he thinks it keeps him relevant, but instead he is making himself a disgusting low-life, pandering to the people he despises when they aren’t in a cheering crowd.

Another offensive tweet, associated with the current riots also worked up the Twitter Police. Trump tweeted, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”.  This is a Florida race riot response to looting during a riot in 1960 and engenders a racial overtone and was flagged. 

Twitter has the upper hand, sorry Trump.  I have speculated that his actions are either the side effects of the use of Propecia, or the effects from his having third stage syphilis mental events. If he has syphilis, was it obtained by raw dogging his prostitutes? Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot, easily missing his tiny mushroom penis he can only see with a mirror. 

NOTABLE DAILY EVENTS

The unemployment numbers for last week are in.  The weekly number is down to 2.1 million new enrollees and a current total of 40.7 million people now on unemployment nationally.  Our normal full employment is 160 million.  My rudimentary snap calculation today at this point in time, is around 25% unemployed, however when the numbers for the month come out, it will be the average of the last four weeks.  I expect optically, a number will be less than 20% for show, and be revised later with the actual numbers.  That sounds cynical, however look at how the reporting on virus testing is being handled by this administration.  They are not unwilling to fudge the numbers for effect.

China is about to take on the ire of POTUS.  He is setting up China to be his fall guy for his Neroesque response to the virus.  He is using Hong Kong as a weapon.  Pompeo, Secretary of State, has warned China on its crackdown and elimination of its special independent status from China.  He has told congress that Hong Kong should no longer be treated as an autonomous state and shall be treated the same as China.

Trump officially has withdrawn from the WHO on the (29^th), 12 days after he wrote a letter to the WHO telling them if they do not change he would withdraw funding in 30 days.  This is not in the best interest of public health, with it being US against the world.  This action assures the United States is going it alone in regard to the pandemic.  The WHO is in process of numerous clinical trials for vaccines with some potential success.  I am convinced this is a strategic move in Trump’s race to the bottom.  In a global economy, going it alone really becomes isolation.  The race to the bottom comes with the only available employment opportunities in manufacturing are labor intensive and low paid.  These are the employees that have been lost in the service industry, and those jobs filled with temporary visas.  These jobs are usually paid less than minimum, piece-meal and other forms of under paying employees.   Will this be Trump’s method of obtaining lower unemployment numbers.