While the number of people who have died from Covid-19 aproaches 100,000, Mr. Trump has been occupied with more pressing matters. In addition to mocking his likely opponent, Joe Biden, for doing the responsible thing and wearing a mask in public, the Dear Leader has been a busy boy the last few days tweeting out conspiracy theories and disproven accusations against MSNBC host and former congressman Joe Scarborough. Mr. Trump has hurt feelings because his former friend has turned against him. Unfortunately, he’s putting an innocent family through hell in his deranged quest for revenge.
For those not familiar with the story, in 2001, Lori Klausutis, died while working in Scarborough’s Florida congressional office. Medical authorities quickly determined that she had an undiagnosed heart condition which caused her to faint and hit her head on the corner of her desk. This was a tragedy, especially as she was only 28-years-old. However, Scarborough was in Washington at the time, Lori had told friends that she wasn’t feeling well, and authorities determined no foul play had occurred.
Mr. Trump has periodically tweeted out his thoughts about this heinous conspiracy theory for the last three years, since the once friendly relationship between himself and Scarborough soured, but over the last several days his attahave intensified. So much so, that Lori’s husband wrote to Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, out of sheer desperation.
Mr. Dorsey has just responded:
We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family. We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.
In other words, Twitter is continuing to treat Trump’s garbage tweets as important historical missives, no matter who they hurt. This is pathetic and unacceptable.
carhicks said:
This is terrible. He is a terrible human being, a bully, a narcissist, an egomaniac, and so on. I still can not believe this man is the president of the US. Twitter needs to stop this, out right lies should not be allowed.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
He truly is and Jack Dorsey is enabling him.🤬
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chattykerry said:
I was born in the USA and my ancestors came centuries ago but I feel so ashamed of many of compatriots right now and our own President who should be relieved of office for his reprehensible behavior.
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carhicks said:
Hopefully at the polls ………🤞🤞🤞
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
There are more days than not that I feel like I don’t recognize this country anymore.
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chattykerry said:
Sometimes I have to mentally slap myself back to reality because surely it is not the majority who think it is a fake virus??
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
No. Just an extremely vocal minority.
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bookbeachbunny said:
The catch 22 is if they suspend him even for a little while he’ll go through the roof and the rantings will probably get worse if they take him off the site completely same. And it will be ammunition for him to scream at his supports that he’s being censored that they’ll buy hook line and sinker.
Twitter’s really in a pickle here but honestly I kind of feel like Twitter is a hell site anyway and Trump is just the human embodiment of the very worst of Twitter (and humanity-at least on social media) run wild and now they don’t know what to do about him.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I understand them not suspending his account, but there’s got to be something they can do about certain tweets such as this.
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beetleypete said:
I don’t think for a moment this is actually Trump himself. His relentless barrage of tweets would take up the whole day, for most people. I suspect he has an office full of staff who just tweet this crap all day and night, and he signs it off without even reading it.
That doesn’t make it any better of course, I just feel he is incapable of managing a Twitter account.
Best wishes, Pete.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
You can usually tell which ones are from him and which are from an aide. His are full of spelling and grammatical errors and tend to ramble. I’m 100% sure that these particular ones are his and his alone.
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johnrieber said:
It’s important to make it clear that these are NOT rogue tweets from some Aide to the President. He tweets, retweets and smear people himself – this is NOT being done on his behalf or without his knowledge. There are tweets that go out from his account from his staff, but these are his doing.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Absolutely John. As I said, you can tell the ones sent by aides by the way they’re written. They’re also ones that aren’t personal attacks on people, but are usually about some function that’s coming up or has already taken place at the WH.
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johnrieber said:
I only replied because, here in the US, people are being lulled into thinking he is above these actions, and are willing to believe he’s not behind them – but he is and they are despicable. He made derogatory remarks about women in politics all weekend long –
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I’m glad you did. I read about the retweets denigrating Hilary and Stacey. I can’t believe people think this behavior is normal.
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beetleypete said:
I never look at them closely enough, Kim. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I’m a masochist!
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sonofabeach96 said:
He has time to disappear from DC and visit one his debt-acquired resorts for rounds of shitty golf, instead of actually performing the duties of being a so-called leader. I’m quite certain this numbnut is fully capable, and childlike enough, to be the one posting tweets 24/7. The sooner this scumbag, poor excuse for a human, pyramid scheme perpetrating, narcissistic, piece of shit is off this planet, the better. Fuck him, and anyone who blindly supports his nonsense and irresponsible rhetoric.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Hear, hear!
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sonofabeach96 said:
Such an asshat. How does he snow these people??? I just can’t fathom that this is the best we can do, that this dipshit represents even a fraction of this nation. The whole sham is an embarrassment, including the throng of mindless boobs that orgasm to his every tweet or moronic press conference. It’s pathetic.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I honestly don’t understand people who support at all.🤷🏻♀️
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sonofabeach96 said:
Nope.
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beetleypete said:
Well, I can only second your heartfelt rant. As they say on the blogs, “What he said”.
Best wishes, Pete.
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johnrieber said:
You are WRONG PETE! He does nothing all morning but tweet…it has been shown time and again that he himself sends these out.
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beetleypete said:
Thanks, John. I find that amazing, and stand corrected. 🙂
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Overly Devoted Archivist said:
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I had no idea this utter insanity was going on. Sharing so other people can know too.
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tensecondsfromnow said:
One rule for the rich, one for the rest of us; that’s what Dorsey stands for.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Yep.
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johnrieber said:
It’s just another sickening example of how reprehensible the President is…how can ANYONE justify this disgusting abuse?
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
His new WH press secretary gave it a try a little while ago.🤷🏻♀️
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Sophie @BewareOfTheReader said:
You just reminded me why I dislike Twitter so much Kim!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Yep. So much on there just brings out the worst in people.
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fragglerocking said:
No words Kim. ☹️
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
“Psych Joe.” Pot…kettle.🤦🏻♀️
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Felicia Denise said:
The true definition of human garbage. No social redeeming value of any kind.
Early this morning, the U.S. passed the 100K mark in covid-related deaths – 100,413.
Wonder who he’ll blame next.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Obama and Biden I’m sure.
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Peg said:
Totally agree with you 100% on this. Twitter execs should be ashamed!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
They labeled two of his tweets concerning mail in voting fraud with fact check labels this afternoon, but still crickets on these.
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A. Shepherdson said:
Kim I loath everything about Twitter, and the fact Trump enjoys bullying and spreading viscious lies from this awful digital platform shows it has not one redeemable quality……. wouldn’t you agree Hitler Goebbels and Himmler would have taken to Tweeting like a duck does to water?
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
OMG Andrew! Hitler and the Nazi leadership would have LOVED Twitter!
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A. Shepherdson said:
I’d suggest Twitter exec’s will be shocked by the abuse and hate spouting from their platform, but Trump makes exec’s a great deal of money. We sure do live in mad times 🙂 .
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I honestly think they revel in it.
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A. Shepherdson said:
Fabulous that Twitter flagged his ranting tweet about postal ballots…………. I knew Trump would throw his toys out the pram. More please!
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I wish they’d flag his conspiracy tweets and leave that poor family alone.
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Margie said:
I applaud your rant, kim.
I am sickened by trump and hate twitter
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
You know, I’m not the type of person to hate others. I really go out of my way to try to find redeeming qualities in almost everyone. But honestly, Trump and his minions? I loathe and despise EVERYTHING about them!
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Margie said:
I know just how you feel as everyday,
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Margie said:
I too despise trump and his minions more and more
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Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote said:
It’s all just a game to him… 😦
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
He is a sick, sick, SICK person.
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lobotero said:
Twitter has done something but not enough….chuq
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
While they put fact check labels on his mail in voter fraud tweets, they’ve done nothing to address these tweets.
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lobotero said:
True….they just want to appear as to doing something chuq
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petespringerauthor said:
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I still think that character matters, and the President keeps lowering the bar. It wasn’t that many years ago, the Republicans declared themselves the party of “family values.” I wonder how they manage to overlook all this bad behavior. This isn’t an attack on all Republicans because I could vote for someone like John Kasich.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
It’s funny you mention Kasich, because in 2016 I was hoping he’d get the Republican nomination. Character absolutely matters Pete, and Trump and his Republican enablers have proven they have none.
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Lelia T said:
We have to acknowledge that all those millions of Trump followers do have the same feelings and beliefs but they never had a mouthpiece in power before. Nothing the rest of us can say or do will ever change their minds and we need to concentrate on two main things—making sure people, especially undecided voters, know what he’s saying and doing and getting the vote out in November.
As for Dorsey, I think his approach to this particular issue is wrong BUT he’s a Democratic party supporter so he’s not 100% douchebag.
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
As far as his supporters go, I absolutely agree Lelia. I believe 100% that he could murder someone in full view and they’d still excuse him.
In respect to Jack Dorsey, he needs to take a stand. While as a media personality, Scarborough is fully able to defend himself, the Klausutis family has been putting up with this sh**t for 19 years, and Trump is fanning the flames and perpetuating their anguish. At the very least, Dorsey can slap fact check labels on these tweets as well.
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Halbarbera said:
No longer twitter
No longer tweet
No to conspiracy theories
Narcissistic tweets
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
Indeed!😒
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suzan khoja said:
Hey Kimmy, are you okay?? I see you haven’t been at your best mood these days. You are lost and I don’t see you commenting much. Are you okay?? How is your migraine holding up??
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By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff said:
I’ve been posting a lot concerning what’s happening in the U.S. right now. I apologize if I’ve missed any of your posts. I’ll try to catch up.
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suzan khoja said:
I know the U.S. is not in its right state now but don’t make yourself sick because of it. I have been reading your post, you are doing the right thing posting about all this. I wanted to do so but I am in the council radar now because I posted about the most famous internet controversy in India. I post one more thing and my blog will be gone forever. We are getting emails to avoid instigating hatred or even talk about any of this as it might create a big deal of problems for the world.
Don’t apologise, Kimmy, take your time. It’s okay if you missed some. I was just worried if you feel ok or not.
Stay Safe and take care ❤✌😊
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