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Trump Accuses Social Media Firms of 'Silencing Millions' (reuters.com)
U.S. President Donald Trump accused social media companies on Friday of silencing "millions of people" in an act of censorship, but without offering evidence to support the claim. From a report: "Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can't do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!" Trump wrote on Twitter, not mentioning any specific companies. Trump also criticized social media outlets last week, saying without providing proof that unidentified companies were "totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices." Mr. President's Friday remarks comes days after he expressed concerns over Twitter and Facebook regulating the content on their own platforms. He found such practice "very dangerous."
Democrats: You can't block us from responding to presidential tweets.
Also Democrats: We can block whoever we want from twitter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-twitter-users-lawsuit.html
Diamond and Silk
Alex Jones
Candice Owens
3 of the above are black women, so I have to assume Zuck is a bigot, along with everyone supporting his censoring people.
Wow, a momentary blip in GDP growth at the end of a recovery that is in many ways the longest sustained one ever, almost all of which occurred under Obama. Things always destabilize when they are about to go bad. During that destabilized period, there are often some manic highs outside of what the longer recovery experienced. That's what you're seeing - the result of destabilization. There will be others before the recession which almost all experts, no matter their party affiliation, expect to kick in within the next 18 months.
In terms of change since arrival in office, Obama turned the direction of the second worst recession in our history around in months after taking office - a massive delta versus the direction it was taking under Bush. At the most, Trump can argue for a tiny delta that was delivered almost entirely to the rich.
If you discount those first few months of Obama's tenure during which jobs were still going down because you can't instantly change directions, Obama created more jobs than any previous President. And he did that while being the first President in modern history to oversee a decrease in overall government employees! This means that his record for jobs created in the private sector is well above any other. Most Presidents have boosted their job numbers by building the number employed by government.
Trump actually cannot achieve Obama's job numbers no matter how good he does. There simply aren't enough people left that will take a job no matter how tempting you make it to put the same numbers up. Obama did too good of a job.
Trump exceeds Obama growth. You also fail to mention loss of purchasing power under Obama or the general economic malaise of the country, and have fallen back on two propaganda sources -- Maddow and Politifact -- to make your argument.
And you fall back on no sources whatsoever: you just make up facts.
There was no particular change in purchasing power between Obama and Trump-- the inflation rate stayed about the same: CPI increased 2.9% year over year as of June. Oil prices have goine up 65% since Trump's election, though, so Trump's election has resulted in a net loss in purchasing power.
Leftists really do live in different worlds, don't you? Either that or you are honestly deluded (insane) or liars.
I'm not sure what your point is, since I'm not a leftist. I'm a guy who likes numbers.
Trump exceeds Obama growth.
Not even close. I think you are perhaps looking at the last reported quarter and assuming that is growth for the entire term.
Now, if the last quarter were to continue happening, yes, he would definitely decimate growth under the previous President's term. However, it should be noted that Obama had several 4% quarters, and even a 5% quarter.
Leftists really do live in different worlds, don't you?
Sigh, first off, leftists aren't a thing. I know Tucker and Sean tell you they are, but they just aren't. Stop using the word, it makes you look like a raving lunatic.
Second, no, your opponents are not living in different worlds, especially as long as you're using pure falsehoods to describe your world. You're literally accusing them of doing what you actually are doing. That's called projecting. It's a sign of intense insecurity. You could probably get help with that.