I don’t think thats “upped”.
Its really hard to get a warning (or banned) for trolling in the pit - but I do believe that shithead is working for it.
Having to work for “shiny toys” certainly is a heavy cross to bear.
Racist prick homophobe. This troll doesn’t know how to pump the brakes. Must be his first foray into trollery. Jumping up and down flinging shit like a chimp is too obvious.
That’s become standard procedure in the fucking asshat conspiracy theorist douchenomicon.
Disingenuous shitweasels have realized that if they change their time zone settings and then take a screen shot of a tweet, they can make it look like the tweet happened earlier than it really did. The peanut-brained slackjawed dipshits that repeat their stupid crap are too fucking stupid to know how timezones work, or that there are different timezones, and they share the initial dumbfuck’s deliberate misinformation all over their shit-stained social media walls.
Example: Stamp Doubt | Snopes.com
Though this has happened for a bunch of different terrible events, usually mass shootings, and I have no interest in hunting down more examples of horrible people’s horrible reactions to real-world horror. If I do I might stop using polite fucking language.
Please reply on this issue. Specifically, Obama tweeted several hours after the photo was released. This is pretty easy to check. Don’t you see the irony in not getting your facts together before you spew forth criticism that Obama should get his facts together before spewing forth?
If Obama tweeted after he saw a picture of the “clock”, it’s even worse.
Totes. And if he hadn’t tweeted at all, what a failure of a leader ! And if he’d supported the school board against Ahmed, totally out of touch ! And…
Look, my point is, Obama bad. Retrace steps from there as needed.
Obviously those programs aren’t for the “middle class” (depending on how you define that), regardless of sexuality, race, or gender. But I’m a straight white male and was definitely on “food stamps” (now called SNAP) for a couple years after the Great Recession. So your stereotype that these programs are just for the “Other” is bullshit.
You realize, well, maybe you don’t - that the tweet was not about the clock itself or a critique of the clock or Ahmed’s engineering prowess - it was about ‘encouraging kids to take an interest…’
its a ‘nice clock’ regaurdless of your impression of it - but the tweet was not about the clock - it was about the initiative. It was also showing Ahmed that the other authoriies were wrong in thier impression (but thats even a side note).
so - get a fucking clue already.
Right. FTR, it was “cool clock,” which maybe is more clearly about the concept, than a “nice” aesthetic.
Hentor, I will concede that technically the tweet hit the twitterverse following the press conference, but I will say that the tweet went viral well before the picture of the clock did, so it’s certainly understandable that people think the tweet came first. When the mayor of Irving said it, I had no reason to question it.
Furthermore, the tweet went out at 12:58pm EST and the press conference started at 12:00pm EST. That leaves a scant 58 minutes for the press conference to get underway, the picture to be shown (it was printed out and stuck to a piece of foam board, it seems), news people to publish their stories of the clock along with the picture, Obama’s people to review the picture, craft a tweet, vet it however the POTUS tweets get vetted, and then send it out. 58 minutes.
So yes, you win, it’s technically possible that Obama laid eyes on the picture of the clock before approving that tweet. It still seems unlikely to me. Even if he did, that doesn’t leave a lot of time for thoughtful consideration or consulting with an electronics guru who could point out that the clock was a ramshackle mess.
Dear friend buckgully.
Please excuse the space I’ve left where I originally noticed your delightful portmanteau. I’ve taken it. I do apologize, but I find I have too many potential uses for “douchenomicon” for me to forego the theft.
In an effort to avoid too many hard feelings between us, I’ve left behind the terms “dicksicon” and “derptionary” for your use, although they are but poor shadows. Perhaps these offerings will allow you to think of me less harshly when in the future you see evidence of my exuberant [over]use of your former property.
Yours in raillery,
xenophon41
What makes you think Obama has personal contact with that Twitter account? 
I think every tweet probably goes through a team of people and takes hours to construct, vet, fact-check, debate, mull, lawyerize, and then send.
As for whether or not Obama himself approves each tweet, or at least approves the gist of the tweet, I guess I assumed he does. Do you think that’s not the case?
I doubt it. The WH press secretary doesn’t clear everything he is going to say with the POTUS. I seriously doubt the WH social media operator (or whatever that person is called) does. Who has time for that?
I thought the tweets he actually writes are signed “-bo”.
His personal twitter account is managed by someone else, and he makes no pretense that the tweets are coming from him. I think @POTUS is different.
Not the best source, but that article certainly makes it seem like he’s pecking the keys himself. Not sure if I buy that, but there you go. Should I keep looking? That was on page 4 of a google search, there’s not much out there about how his tweeting works.
That’s true for his personal @BarackObama account. The @POTUS account is new this year.
Interesting, steronz. I’m convinced–looks like my information was old and only applied to his previous handle.
At the same time, this also undermines some of your presumption about how much careful preparation would be required before he would tweet. He might have just seen a bit of the press conference, composed a tweet, showed it to his aides, then pressed “send”.
You can if you want, though according to that article we could just ask him. 
I guess I was wrong about how much time Obama personally spends on Twitter.