How Stupid Are They?

[rogruth]

If a president doesn't tweet he will be called a Luddite.
If he does he is called trivial.

No, I'm not going that far as to call it trivial - it's very painfully clear that social media has a significant impact, albeit it disseminates very questionable content that for reasons unknown is blindly trusted.

I was not thinking of Rufus. More like TV reporters and some others.
Rufus,
Your statement is "painfully clear".

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If a president doesn't tweet he will be called a Luddite.
If he does he is called trivial.

No, I'm not going that far as to call it trivial - it's very painfully clear that social media has a significant impact, albeit it disseminates very questionable content that for reasons unknown is blindly trusted.

I was not thinking of Rufus. More like TV reporters and some others.
Rufus,
Your statement is "painfully clear".

And, I have been termed a Luddite more than once,

[Tom Dempsey]

It's not the act of tweeting that many folks find objectionable Roger, it's the content of the tweets.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's not the act of tweeting that many folks find objectionable Roger, it's the content of the tweets.

As I wrote, "...very questionable content that for reasons unknown is blindly trusted."

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It's not the act of tweeting that many folks find objectionable Roger, it's the content of the tweets.

I respect what you say, here, Tom, and have certainly seen that aspect mentioned often on the News. Yet, I have to add I think it's, somehow, more complicated than that. For some folks, just having him tweet seems inappropriate for a sitting President, especially first thing in his day.

For example, if you were elected as our next President, would it seem and feel proper for you to continue to post on MTJ? I'm not sure (which is why I have mentioned this added perspective.)

Maybe, it's simply something new and will take his leading us, over time, to the place where we will find such actions by a President normal and everyday.

[HONDO74]

Are you guys on Twitter and actually see what he has tweeted or are you getting it from the left wing lame stream media that are on the constant attack every day ??

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Are you guys on Twitter and actually see what he has tweeted or are you getting it from the left wing lame stream media that are on the constant attack every day ??

I've never been there.
P.S. I wonder how the action of posting there came to be called "tweeting." I should have thought it would have been called: "twittering" ? Or the shorter: "Twitting," although I can understand why being called a Twitterer didn't make the cut.

[HONDO74]

Here is a fun one for you and it has a train in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwFSUk ... e=youtu.be

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Here is a fun one for you and it has a train in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwFSUk ... e=youtu.be

I have to admit, it was funny. Cute.
Did you see the link there to "10 horses you won't believe..." ? Interesting, but for real? I am left wondering (esp. since the expression, "fake news" got coined.

[Tom Dempsey]

Are you guys on Twitter and actually see what he has tweeted or are you getting it from the left wing lame stream media that are on the constant attack every day ??

The tweets are accessible by multiple methods, I read President Obama's tweets, I read President Trump's tweets, there is a definite difference discernable between the two. Now my question to you is, do you ever listen to the "left wing lame stream media" or are you just traveling with the rest of the flock.

[HONDO74]

Tom
I haven't watched TV in over 8 years so I get what I read from all the news sights on the internet. and I don't listen to radio. I have a loss of hearing. I watch all my movies from the computer with head phones. From the TV news programs you get force fed what they want you to see and hear. I read as much as I can from both the left and the right

[HONDO74]

Here is a fun one for you and it has a train in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwFSUk ... e=youtu.be

I have to admit, it was funny. Cute.
Did you see the link there to "10 horses you won't believe..." ? Interesting, but for real? I am left wondering (esp. since the expression, "fake news" got coined.

Fake news can also be opinionated news which is what most of it is today. They present the news with a bias and their opinions. Sometimes it is called spinning the news.

Actual fake news is fabricated false stories.

[rogruth]

I don't tweet. Don't even know anything about the process.
I do read a little You/U tube and Facebook when referred there.

[Roy]

P.S. I wonder how the action of posting there came to be called "tweeting." I should have thought it would have been called: "twittering" ? Or the shorter: "Twitting," although I can understand why being called a Twitterer didn't make the cut.

So, is the President the tweeter-in-chief, or the twit-in-chief? He acts like a cyber bully. For someone with all the money and power in the world, he's astonishingly immature.

[up148]

P.S. I wonder how the action of posting there came to be called "tweeting." I should have thought it would have been called: "twittering" ? Or the shorter: "Twitting," although I can understand why being called a Twitterer didn't make the cut.

So, is the President the tweeter-in-chief, or the twit-in-chief? He acts like a cyber bully. For someone with all the money and power in the world, he's astonishingly immature.

I think you'll have few contradicting you on this forum.

BH