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[–] [email protected] 257 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Urgh, articles about tweets.

“So think of it: They get me to that position, and then their campaign says, ‘I’m the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon.’ That’s their campaign,” Trump said. “I don’t think people are going to buy it.”

"We approve this message"

That's it. Don't reward a newssite for this shit.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather more people rewarded the news site for it then rewarding twitter by going there directly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I took one for the team and went to the article, so no-one else had to.

[–] ordinary_dad 3 points 4 months ago

I approve your effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This just rewards both of them, because the embedded Twitter elements are still there

[–] Maggoty 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it was pretty funny though. And it's a complete character change from Biden's campaign.

[–] Nastybutler 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How quickly people forget the Dark Brandon clapbacks

[–] suction 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They didn’t seem too successful in the news cycle. I still think it would be worth a try if Harris only referred to Trump as “the convicted pedophile”. Like, 1-up the orange Mussolini at his own stupid tactics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I still think it would be worth a try if Harris only referred to Trump as “the convicted pedophile”.

He hasn't been convicted of being a pedophile yet. Best we can do without walking the line as regards defamation is something like "convicted felon, found liable for rape, GOOD FRIEND of Epstein who is currently fighting for your vote because it's the only real chance he has to escape the law and he knows it."

[–] suction 1 points 4 months ago

But he’s convicted and a pedophile, why do we have to do it by the book if he wins by making up whatever he wants, was my point.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 26 points 4 months ago

her clip is pretty good though:

Trump: And then their campaign says I’m the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon-[CUT] Harris; "I am Kamala Harris and I approve this message"

it's a nice truncation.

[–] suction 3 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately tweets by famous people are news, whether we like it or not. At least this way I don’t give Elon a page view.