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gulliver

(13,197 posts)
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 09:44 PM Jul 2019

Should the next Dem President use Twitter directly, personally, and constantly like Trump?

I would argue a definite yes, but less frequently. I don't like that Twitter is currently being used by the orange clown to basically demagogue and play with the world. But I think a President using Twitter (or some other direct and immediate form of communication) is an important innovation going forward and reluctantly credit Trump for breaking the ice on it.


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Yes, all the time and directly.
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Yes, but maybe less frequently.
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No
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Should the next Dem President use Twitter directly, personally, and constantly like Trump? (Original Post) gulliver Jul 2019 OP
Yes but maybe her office could issue the tweets not directly from the president California_Republic Jul 2019 #1
Why not.......the piece of orange shit does.....why anything less from the next POTUS??? a kennedy Jul 2019 #2
nobody should use twitter like that. Obama used social media JI7 Jul 2019 #3
Hell no! RainCaster Jul 2019 #4
I wish rownesheck Jul 2019 #5
yes, more thoughtfully and less frequently AlexSFCA Jul 2019 #6
Aww, Hell No Leith Jul 2019 #7
nothing wrong with using twitter... everything wrong with what drumpf says Takket Jul 2019 #8
It's a tool. It can be used for good or evil, depending on the wielder. Buns_of_Fire Jul 2019 #9

JI7

(89,276 posts)
3. nobody should use twitter like that. Obama used social media
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 09:50 PM
Jul 2019

but it's all about how you do it and what else you are doing.


Leith

(7,813 posts)
7. Aww, Hell No
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 11:15 PM
Jul 2019

One day we will go back to having the country run by mature adults with professional attitudes. I don't have a problem with a president tweeting - as long as the tweets are giving information, updates, things to do with what a real president does. No more of this shit of giving people stupid names, insulting random folk, and being a trumpian asshole.

I hope I live long enough to see that.

Takket

(21,639 posts)
8. nothing wrong with using twitter... everything wrong with what drumpf says
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 11:41 PM
Jul 2019

we should be communicating in some fashion through social media. this is what millennials and gen Z do. AOC gets that.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,201 posts)
9. It's a tool. It can be used for good or evil, depending on the wielder.
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 12:06 AM
Jul 2019

A hammer in Jimmy Carter's hand can be used to build a house. A hammer in Charles Manson's hand would probably be used for something completely different.

Rump uses it as a megaphone to egg on his brain-dead, drooling worshipers. Nothing more.

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