Journal shanen's Journal: Bye, bye, Sean Spicer, you shiny object you! 1
Though on many of his days Spicer looked like a really dull object, I think #PresidentTweety's only use for Spicer was as a distraction to confuse the REAL news.
Alternative Subject: How to collaborate with the Russians without even trying!
Think about it. Trump obviously has no real communications strategy and his supporters could care less about White House press briefings.
Trump only has a FAKE communications strategy based on Twitter. Now if you were a clever and cunning Russian spy, and you noticed this, how would you take advantage of it?
I think Mueller's investigation should be extended to Twitter. Specifically, I think he should investigate Russian tampering with the election via Twitter. I even have a few ideas how it could be done. Putin's hackers would have begun by analyzing Twitter to find the most influential retweeters for election-related topics. Just focusing on one side of it, they would try to help the pro-Trump tweeters. For example, if a reliable pro-Trump tweeter was sleeping when Trump tweeted a juicy one, they would keep tabs and make sure the tweet was called to his attention when he came back to Twitter. You can actually extend that even farther to put more thumbs on the scales. Break the influencers down by specific interests and constituencies. If a particular Trump tweet will appeal to that specific tweeter's audience, then make sure he gets it, but if it would offend some of his target demographic, then you give it a pass. These sorts of activities should leave traces in the Twitter records, but I'm betting no one has looked for them. Yet.
Sean Spicer? Just a distracting clown. The only surprise was that the clown actually grew a backbone at the last minute. Or maybe not. Maybe Spicer wasn't standing on his principles but just pragmatically decided he wants to sell the first kiss-and-tell book from the inside?
SNL (Score:2)
No more funny Saturday Night Live (SNL) sk(it/eche)s on him. :(