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DONALD TRUMP STILL WON'T UNBLOCK ROSIE O'DONNELL ON TWITTER
Newsweek ^ | 8/29/2018 | ALEXANDRA HUTZLER

Posted on 09/15/2018 3:41:28 PM PDT by simpson96

Months after being ordered by a federal judge to unblock of Twitter users, Donald Trump finally allowed dozens of previously blocked accounts to access his social media feed. Rosie O'Donnell was not among the lucky ones.

"Still unblocked," the comedian wrote in a Twitter post late Tuesday, adding that the president is a "coward" for continuing to block her on the social media site.

Trump's unblocking spree happened months after a federal judge ordered him to do so back in May. The judge stated that blocking people from accessing his account was a violation of the first amendment. Naomi Reice Buchwald, the judge presiding over the case, wrote that her ruling was based on the fact that Trump uses the account @realDonald Trump to “take actions that can be taken only be the President as President.”

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed the lawsuit resulting in the court ruling, and earlier this month sent a letter alerting the Justice Department that 41 Twitter accounts were still being blocked by the president. On Tuesday, Trump unblocked 20 of the users on that list. Previously blocked users include journalists, writers and political commentators.

But O'Donnell remains blocked by Trump,

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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1 posted on 09/15/2018 3:41:28 PM PDT by simpson96
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Trump has no interest in being physically crushed by a speeding large mass.


2 posted on 09/15/2018 3:43:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: simpson96

Take your smelly putrid gash and just buzz off Rosie.


3 posted on 09/15/2018 3:44:09 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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"Still unblocked," the comedian wrote in a Twitter post

What a blockhead!

4 posted on 09/15/2018 3:44:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: simpson96

Trolling Twitter to see if they ban him.

5 posted on 09/15/2018 3:44:57 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: simpson96

Awesome.


6 posted on 09/15/2018 3:47:42 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: simpson96

Trump should say it was an algorithm of his.


7 posted on 09/15/2018 3:51:47 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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You can say a lot of things about Donald Trump, but one thing he is NOT is a “coward”.

Rosie is just another sniveling slob.


8 posted on 09/15/2018 3:52:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: simpson96

What a tragedy.

Judge must be just crushed over it.


9 posted on 09/15/2018 3:52:37 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: simpson96

Newsweek with some hard-hitting journalism.


10 posted on 09/15/2018 3:52:38 PM PDT by gubamyster
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“Still unblocked,”

Should that have been “still blocked”?

Why should he unblock her? It’s not like they’re bff. I wouldn’t have let her in in the first place.


11 posted on 09/15/2018 3:57:24 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Maybe I skimmed this too quickly and missed context, or maybe Rosie can't manage the abstract reasoning required to deal with a single application/layer of a negative?

Did she write "Still unblocked"?

Is she confused? It's not like this is a 3 layer negative concept like 'not unmeaningless.'

Either way, I guess Rosie is still not unmeaningless to Trump.

12 posted on 09/15/2018 4:02:20 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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Trump's unblocking spree happened months after a federal judge ordered him to do so back in May. The judge stated that blocking people from accessing his account was a violation of the first amendment.

So... by that reasoning, Twitter should stop blocking or banning Conservative Tweeters.

Still, in a way, I think this may be a blessing in disguise. Let the lunatics say something that will get the FBI to come knocking at their door.
13 posted on 09/15/2018 4:20:04 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Trump/Pence -- Making America Great Again Since 2017!")
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To: TigersEye

This appears to be a Newsweak fail. The article says “unblocked” but a screen shot of Rosie’s tweet says “blocked.”


14 posted on 09/15/2018 4:21:20 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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I see, it’s a first amendment violation if somebody is blocked from President Trump, but Twitter can shut down anyone they choose and that’s not also a first amendment violation?


15 posted on 09/15/2018 4:29:47 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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I believe if President Trump left Twitter and made his posts from an alternative platform, millions of Twitter subscribers would leave Twitter and follow him to the new platform. Due to the liberal bias of Twitter, the president is the only reason I have any interest in it in the first place.


16 posted on 09/15/2018 4:32:15 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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This will be studied vigorously by historians in the future. A true epoch making event.


17 posted on 09/15/2018 4:36:42 PM PDT by Spruce
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Still, in a way, I think this may be a blessing in disguise. Let the lunatics say something that will get the FBI to come knocking at their door.

Today's FBI, Rosie O'Donuts would threaten the President and the FBI would indict Trump.

18 posted on 09/15/2018 4:37:32 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Menehune56

$1.00 was way too much for that rag.


19 posted on 09/15/2018 4:37:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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She hasn’t blocked him? Rosie blocks people all the time.


20 posted on 09/15/2018 4:45:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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