An executive order can only pertain to the activities of the federal government. He can, for example, say that no one in the government is allowed to communicate via Twitter or advertise on it. He could also say that no government related cellphones or computers can have Twitter clients installed on them. No executive order pertains to the activity of private citizens. If he wants to achieve more than that, Congress will have to get involved.
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It’ll be something deliberately vaporous; as usual, the point here is the announcement itself, which his morons will hear and think the bad people are in trouble with daddy. He won’t want them dwelling too much on the actual content, since it will necessarily demonstrate how the president is not the boss of anyone unless they’re a federal employee, and he can’t order social media companies to do shit.
His dumdums presumably aren’t too clear on that point, since they themselves are bleach-drinkingly desperate to receive his dipshit orders.
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Remember, he’s weak. Fact check him more. Turn off his account. End it now.
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Whatever Trumplethinskin signs, it will be blatantly unconstitutional, and will be struck down before the ink is dry. This is more ridiculous posturing from the Tantrum-in-Chief, and deserves all the ridicule that is forthcoming.
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Your post is full of truth, accuracy, and good sense. All of which Trump hates and fears and considers his enemies and has declared his own personal war upon.
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“Jared, go grab me the SERIOUS, big boy crayons for this one. AAAAND THE GOLD SHARPIE!!!”
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He’d still have his other favorite social media outlet, the forum section of the Daily Stormer.
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The rounding up of dissidents and internment in protective custody will commence. Then a declaration of communications emergency, with all media taken over by minions er I mean loyalists. Deploying troops at media facilities. Order will be maintained. Stay calm.
I think you give him too much credit. He’s weak and America is laughing. The world is laughing.
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Go grab your Sina Weibo username while you still can!
The upside is that maybe now we’ll really get serious about social media owned and run by the public, not by billionaires (or by authoritarian governments)
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This is obviously dog-and-pony show horseshit, but if he manages to kill Twitter I might have to vote for him.
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Struck down by that pack of right-wing corporate whore 1%er-fellating assrags he packed the Court with? That’s a pleasant dream.
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I wouldn’t worry about them either. They don’t control the docket. That can sit in their chambers and do nothing.
I’d suspend his account for the next 120 days “for our legal staff to evaluate the response to this executive order”.
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It would be hilarious if he actually DID somehow shut down Twitter, a platform that treats him like a god, lets him break every rule and say whatever he wants whenever he wants, and suddenly found himself with nowhere to spew his misinformation and tantrums.
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Unlikely, Trump has no balls.
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