Free speech is one matter. But intentional, self-obsessed, alarmist lies, plainly designed to cause serious, irreparable harm to the U.S. citizenry, is another.
After President Donald Trump's Twitter tizzy on Tuesday, the President signed an executive order just two days later, on Thursday, that threatens U.S. government oversight of political speech on social media.
Trump, at his press conference Thursday, proposterously feigned: "We're here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers."
The President's executive order comes after Twitter, on Tuesday, added clarifications at the bottom of a pair of Trump's tweets, which baselessly fear-mongered that voting by mail invited rampant voter fraud.
But Trump is the only true fraud. Twitter simply clarified the truth and the prerequisites of voting by mail, setting the record straight in the public's interest.
By the way, election fraud, not voter fraud, is the real looming threat to the integrity of the 2020 presidential elections. But Trump and his abetting Republican loyalists, for obvious reasons, don't want to go there.
After President Donald Trump's Twitter tizzy on Tuesday, the President signed an executive order just two days later, on Thursday, that threatens U.S. government oversight of political speech on social media.
Trump, at his press conference Thursday, proposterously feigned: "We're here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers."
The President's executive order comes after Twitter, on Tuesday, added clarifications at the bottom of a pair of Trump's tweets, which baselessly fear-mongered that voting by mail invited rampant voter fraud.
But Trump is the only true fraud. Twitter simply clarified the truth and the prerequisites of voting by mail, setting the record straight in the public's interest.
By the way, election fraud, not voter fraud, is the real looming threat to the integrity of the 2020 presidential elections. But Trump and his abetting Republican loyalists, for obvious reasons, don't want to go there.
Trump's childish lashing out at Twitter, unsettlingly, has become the typical, vengeful behavior we have come to expect from the tempestuous "commander in chief."
Conveniently, such blowhard displays distract from Trump's criminal complicity in a deadly pandemic that has now claimed more than 100,000 American lives.
Conveniently, such blowhard displays distract from Trump's criminal complicity in a deadly pandemic that has now claimed more than 100,000 American lives.
Of course, what Trump actually is proposing to do with his new executive order, is squeeze the life out of the First Amendment rights of free speech in America.
He's convolutedly, wrongly suggesting that free speech gives one, namely him, the right to purposefully mislead the public to their detriment.
He's convolutedly, wrongly suggesting that free speech gives one, namely him, the right to purposefully mislead the public to their detriment.
It's illegal to scream "fire" in a crowded movie theater, risking panic and serious injury, if there is no fire. But, that's what Trump has been doing these past nearly five, mind-numbing years with mounting malevolence.
Trump's been screaming "fire" through: his discriminatory policy that deprives the needy to feed the greedy; in his accusatory pressers that provoke chaos; and his exhaustively inciting tweets that gratingly disparage the righteous to offer cover and comfort for the criminal.
Trump's been screaming "fire" through: his discriminatory policy that deprives the needy to feed the greedy; in his accusatory pressers that provoke chaos; and his exhaustively inciting tweets that gratingly disparage the righteous to offer cover and comfort for the criminal.
The "Fairness Doctrine," requiring TV and radio broadcasts to provide equal time for advocates from both sides of a public issue, was disbanded under President Ronald Reagan in 1987. That gave us the caustic, misinformation-generating, Trump-propagandist news outlet, Fox News.
Now, Trump is attempting to twist our inherent sense of fairness, under the guise of "free speech," into something much more grotesque and un-American.
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