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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @LOLGOP

      Sure, but it doesn't take a genius to explain why social media beneficiary Barack Obama didn't regulate it when he had the chance.

      3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    2. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
      Replying to @emptywheel @LOLGOP

      Wait wut?

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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @msbellows @LOLGOP

      Trump's use of FB (as distinct from RU interference) is just exploiting social media, something O also did extremely well. What distinguishes suppression from turnout from a technical standpoint?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
      Replying to @emptywheel @LOLGOP

      I'm boggling at the ideas that Obama a) would have endorsed regulating speech even if he hadn't benefitted, given his Constitutional bent, and b) ever "had the chance" to do so.

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @msbellows @LOLGOP

      How about enforcing antitrust?

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    6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @emptywheel @msbellows @LOLGOP

      How about making campaign finance more resilient while he had a supermajority in the Senate?

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    7. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
      Replying to @emptywheel @LOLGOP

      You can identify what's wrong with this as easily as I can. Start by adding quotes to "supermajority," mix in some Citizens United, and acknowledge that political capital is finite/spent on healthcare/his small-dollar fundraising suggested CF wasn't all-powerful.

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    8. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
      Replying to @msbellows @emptywheel @LOLGOP

      I mean, I'm mostly with you on the nature and scope of the problems. It's just that when I read "but of COURSE it's largely Obama's fault!" on matters that AREN'T his fault, I always hear it in a snide, condescending Wm. F. Buckley voice and generally stop reading.

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @msbellows @LOLGOP

      Last I checked, antitrust enforcement didn't take Congress. There are things neither party has chosen to prioritize that have gotten us in this mess.

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    10. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
      Replying to @emptywheel @LOLGOP

      Sure, true dat. Most important in my mind being, making federal election aid $ contingent on paper ballots and secure voting systems. Russia 2020 will be GOP/Diebold etc. 2000/2004 on steroids.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 27
      Replying to @msbellows @LOLGOP

      Also VRA reauthorization, so as to prevent GOP from doing what they did in NC and WI, which had an even more demonstrable effect.

      10:47 AM - 27 Feb 2018
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        1. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Feb 27
          Replying to @emptywheel @LOLGOP

          His biggest mistake was in assuming Hillary would win and so not rocking the boat over Russia or Garland. Disastrous in hindsight. But damn, when someone bats .750 you don't focus on his strikeouts.

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