Thursday, July 6, 2017

Hiding From Trump's Twitter Tweets

WHEN TRUMP ATTACKS someone on Twitter, in fact every time Trump attacks someone on Twitter (and if you haven't read the President's tweets you simply haven't lived), he is guilty of engaging in bullying and harassment, both of which are terms of service violations. By now, anyone else would have been stripped of their Twitter account, and maybe would end up in court. Maybe Trump will too. Give him time; even as we speak our president is involved in over four thousand lawsuits, incredibly, most of his own making, but many aimed at him for alleged criminal activity, ranging from sexual harassment to conflicts of interest to colluding with a foreign power, you name it. What a choice for U.S. President! The world started laughing at America the day Trump announced for the office, and it hasn't stopped since. One can hardly blame it. Come to think of it, the world started laughing at American culture long before Twitter. I stand corrected. I don't use Twitter, or any other social media, for various reasons. I don't especially like the one hundred forty spaces rule, and the whole shallow narcissistic nature of twitter. Tweeting somehow seems juvenile; the site seems intended for children and teenagers, and those who invented it are perhaps utterly amazed that not only do adults show any interest in it at all, but have totally taken it over. They're laughing all the way to the bank. The very idea of the President of these United States using Twitter as his primary means of communicating with the world, and that millions follow his mini rants, is beyond laughable. His attack tweets are pathological, and incredibly, permanently engraved into our American historical record, for future generations to study and amaze. God, how awful. It makes you want to disavow any responsibility for or participation in American culture, and all responsibility for American political leadership. Every day, you almost want to attire yourself in Groucho Marx disguise, turn on your computer, and see what one hundred and forty character craziness our chief executive spewed most recently.

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