To me this has always been the main danger. And it has happened and is happening. Yesterday morning the NPR top of the hour newscast led with Trump tweeting something or other. WTF?? A year ago some of us were incredulous that Twitter was becoming a legitimate news conduit. It’s the equivalent of the President leaving post-it notes on the front door of the White House and having reporters quote them, except that now he has no need for reporters at all. He tweets and the world reads. It has become completely normal. His toddler syntax and tantrums have become normal.
horrible, but very nicely said!
This just in - the President is above the law!
“And to prove it, I made him send out that ridiculously incriminating tweet!”
This seems super desperate.
Amy Siskind recognized that from the beginning. As she put it, “Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.” Every week since the shitgibbon won the election, she’s put out a list of bizarre crap that happened that week. You can find the latest, and the archive, here.
It’s kinda quaint now to look back and see how it began. From week 3: “Our news cycles are now being led by Trump’s Twitter account. Our media seems unable to do anything but follow along.”
Piffle. Back when Jacques Chirac was in office and the various investigations against him started looking serious, he had the Assembly vote a law stating the President couldn’t be prosecuted while in office. Because of the solemn dignity of the office and that.
You colonials still have much to learn 
This is why I think the repub party is going to die. (Superstitious Eastern European hand gestures here)
But down inside I keep waiting for the headline “GOP sells US firstborns. Dems in trouble!”
Wasn’t Nixon saying he was above the law, too?
Correct.
What is Twitter’s rule about other people using your account under your name?
It doesn’t break the rules if the President does it.
Twitter’s “rules” can’t even get nobody Nazis kicked off the service. They’ll never do anything to Trump.
Twitter has claimed they give Trump a pass on all the daily rules violations because his tweets are “newsworthy” and “of public interest”.
Cite: Numerous sources have discussed this. Just one example:
Twitter Says It Won’t Suspend Trump Over Threatening Tweet Because It’s ‘Newsworthy’, Dominique Mosbergen, HuffPo, 9/26/2017:
Trump’s claim (or his lawyers’ claims) that he’s above the law isn’t anything new, is it? Weren’t they claiming way back in the early days of the administration that he can’t be guilty of obstruction? (Or guilty of something-or-other?)
Actually, we colonials probably have that under control. I don’t think our national legislature (aka Congress) could ever pass such a law because the Democrats would filibuster it of course. Since it would have nothing to do with money issues, they couldn’t use the “reconciliation” procedures where a filibuster can’t be done.
I’m actually starting to think impeachment may be possible just because of Dowd’s claim.
No one would argue “obstruction of justice isn’t a crime when I do it” unless they had, in fact, obstructed justice.
Right. “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” - Nixon
There you go being rational! Reason has no place in the discussion of what “no one” or “anyone” might argue or believe. It’s a crap shoot from here on in.
“I didn’t eat the cookie, and besides, it wasn’t very good”.