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As time takes its toll what might have been a stream ones turns into a trickle. Such of which we could just witness. 43 presidential minutes condensed into the above. What nonsense. This is all that POTUS did during that time. Watching TV, clicking on nonsense links and tweeting out random crap that adds nothing to the world. Even his ardent followers can only react with ‘yeah, he is right’ to such nonsense. There is nothing there. Really isn’t. As he would say it: “Sad!”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if there would be no epidemic. As if there would be not seismic shifts in the global power landscape. As if there would not be a climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As time takes its toll what might have been a stream ones turns into a trickle. Such of which we could just witness. 43 presidential minutes condensed into the above. What nonsense. This is all that POTUS did during that time. Watching TV, clicking on nonsense links and tweeting out random crap that adds nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPresidential Screen Time: When Twitter Becomes Policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Observing a president's social media habits during global crises. 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