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8 Oct, 11 tweets, 2 min read
Who won the debate?

Remember: this poll is entirely valid according to Trump's campaign team, so treat it as such.
I think people are actually trying to game this, which is hysterical.
Poll over. Please feel free to share the results in response to anyone earnestly citing Twitter polls as useful or accurate.
"Pence won the Channel 4 News poll on Twitter!"
"Well, he tied the fly in this one."
You think I'm kidding but here's the Trump campaign's rapid response team pushing people to these stupid Twitter polls. Image
Why bother? Well... vice.com/en/article/zmy…
Yes, I'm why my Twitter poll pitting two vice presidential candidates against a fly and a piece of plastic is a joke.
As long as you're buying the paper, I won't complain. Thank you!
A guy was just like "well, THIS Twitter poll has three times the responses so it's three times as accurate!"

Which is like claiming that a vacuum tube with three times as many air molecules is three times as heavy.
Kellyanne Conway's pre-Trump career was as a pollster. She knows this is bullshit, and she doesn't even work for the guy anymore!
Anyway, this has now crossed over into the “it makes the media mad, so let’s do this dumb thing more with a self-awareness that many of our supporters don’t share!” phase, so I’ll stop here.

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6 Oct
This is a great example of how Trump's tendency to reduce his rhetoric to slogans often isn't actually that useful. (1/)
What Trump's saying, in essence, is that he objects to purported censorship by social media companies. It's a common complaint on the right after efforts to reduce toxicity and falsehoods led to demotion of accounts and deletion of content. (2/)
It is, in other words, an issue that's not only specific to his base but to a very particular subset of his base. It would be like Biden tweeting "MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT!" (3/)
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About Trump's insistence that he succeeded on ventilators. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
About Trump's not wanting to cause a panic. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Trump is now complaining that the Democrats never implemented a national mask mandate.

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A few select quotes from the president whose primary concern is not instilling fear or panic in the American public. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
“I'm the leader of the country, I can't be jumping up and down and scaring people,” Trump told Hannity last night. “I don't want to scare people.”

No, sure. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Truly a president who is loath to instill fear or panic. Image
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Like more than a few people, Weijia Jiang was not familiar with Trump’s aborted video from 2012 in which he fires “Obama.” After realizing the background, she deleted a tweet about it.

Because that is how you demonstrate credibility: acknowledging errors.
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By being mentioned in her tweet, I got a reminder of how things work today.

If you admit error, you acknowledge error. If, on the other hand, you deny making an error? You can try to push every issue into a he-said-she-said battle.
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If you deny that you were wrong or that you lied or that you had an affair, people who seek to defend you can live in the gray area, however narrow.

If you admit your mistake, as you should and as you might be professionally obligated to do? You allow bad-faith critiques.
(3/)
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