HAHAHAHAHA!
A journalist is suing President Donald Trump because he blocked her on Twitter. For real.
Me in @FortuneMagazine. https://t.co/gmPs6HGfbO
— RebeccaBuckwalterPoz (@rpbp) July 14, 2017
You see, the block affects her ability to work as a “public intellectual“:
So when President Donald Trump blocked me in June, apparently for suggesting that Russia influenced the outcome of the 2016 election, he harmed me professionally. Even though I knew @realDonaldTrump was important to my career, it still took me at least a few days to recognize how being blocked by the president on Twitter would affect me as a public intellectual.
Um, wouldn’t an intellectual know how to get around a Twitter block?
Make another account, you crybaby. https://t.co/k9HYMAoOwc
— neontaster (@neontaster) July 14, 2017
Someone help this poor woman, who can't figure out how to set up a side account and screenshot Trump's tweets. https://t.co/goI5jSRfXr
— Brooke Rogers (@bkerogers) July 14, 2017
You mean like the author of that piece is already doing? This tweet if from July 9; she says she was blocked in June:
G20 according to @realdonaldtrump: General statements, all-caps slogan, slideshow clip. pic.twitter.com/Oi0h880uxS
— RebeccaBuckwalterPoz (@rpbp) July 9, 2017
So here whole lawsuit is a sham?
I am dumber for having read this. Be warned, you'll feel your IQ evaporate off your brain like water on a hot skillet. https://t.co/pdQ1LOXUPq
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) July 14, 2017
oh fuck off pic.twitter.com/LqUYjlZfWP
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) July 14, 2017
of all the arguments in favor of using the courts to micromanage how trump uses his twitter account this hed is by far the least persuasive https://t.co/lmBBwqLjdO
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) July 14, 2017
Thankfully, since her career does hinge on being able to troll the president on Twitter, she persisted:
I'm trying to imagine a having a career that depends on access to Trump's tweets
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 14, 2017
Some people lose jobs because of robots, or because the plant was moved to Mexico; others because a celebrity blocked them on the twitterz
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 14, 2017
Being blocked by the president on twitter is not affecting your speech pic.twitter.com/KzhUvBK95s
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) July 14, 2017
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