Politico’s Marc Caputo, who we told you about last week after he blasted how the media was treating NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo like a hero and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a villain when the opposite was likely true, discovered Twitter’s new “safety” feature after he received this automated message asking if he wanted to “revise” a tweet in a discussion over President Trump’s weight:
Jeeze, Twitter pic.twitter.com/zuhxC4rd1y
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 19, 2020
At issue was this back-and-forth that started with Nancy Pelosi calling the president “morbidly obese” last night and ended with Twitter questioning if this was an appropriate question or not: “But ‘fat’ is a synonym for ‘morbidly obese,’ right?”:
The house speaker calls the president fat https://t.co/jTc0qz4kfw
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 19, 2020
The category of “morbidly obese” means you pay higher life insurance premiums. It’s based on your BMI (body mass index, ratio of body fat to overall body weight).
It’s a fact, not an insult.
— kristen sonntag (@murphtag) May 19, 2020
But “fat” is a synonym for “morbidly obese,” right?
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 19, 2020
Yes, it’s real:
Lmao is that real
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 19, 2020
National Review’s Kyle Smith has since renamed this the “Karen function” and that’s so perfect:
Twitter added a Karen function
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) May 19, 2020
Maybe Joe Biden could use a “Karen function” of his own?
"Look, fat." https://t.co/HRhvrFk1ct
— Jeff B, fightin' the COVID one bootleg at a time (@EsotericCD) May 19, 2020
And this nonsense was entirely predictable:
This is an absurd road we're going down and it was entirely foreseeable https://t.co/Tm8Arr5vwz
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) May 19, 2020
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