This is too funny (and who cares if it is true or not, to be honest, because it will piss Trump off):
Did the Prime Minister have to hold the tiny hand of the scared little boy?
That certainly explains this, then:
He rode down the escalator that slow because he was afraid to walk down the stairs like normal people do.
Baud
Yep. Recall the wingnuts pulled that crap with Hillary and her “stamina.” Goose, meet gander.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That, and I just saw on MSNBC that because of a petition, the British Parliament will have to debate rescinding Trump’s invitation for a state visit. I imagine unless Kellyann and Ivanka have all four hands on his android, he’ll blow this up even bigger.
Davis X. Machina
@Baud: Goose, meet gender.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nice. Even if it’s not rescinded, the debate should be amazing.
Major Major Major Major
I keep thinking there must be a way to weaponize this.
Feebog
Cannot wait until the hair piece comes loose at some outside ceremony where the wind is blowing. Somewhere in New York a Golden Retriever is missing part of his coat.
lollipopguild
So Trump is afraid of staircases? Maybe we can have the Ghost of Staircases Past visit him during the night at the White House.
muddy
@Feebog: It’s a weave, it’s sewn in so it won’t fly off.
Ben Cisco
Keep it coming.
I’ve noticed that in the last 72 hours, the most die-hard “GIVE HIM A CHANNNNNNCE!” posters on my timeline are now doing tributes to WWII vets instead. Progress?
Ben Cisco
Also, I’m just going to leave this here: https://www.verywell.com/bathmophobia-2671848
PsiFighter37
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The main thing he will be upset about is not getting to golf on the private courses the royal family has. Getting a lapdog audience – he can find that on Twitter or the Breitbart comment section.
And I’m sure it’s true. The fucker sends notes for decades to the editor of Vanity Fair about his tiny hands…almost certainly true. What a pathetic little asshole.
Gravenstone
@lollipopguild: So Trump is afraid of staircases?
XTPD
I have what could be considered moderately strong acrophobia – I can’t go near a ledge if I’m at least20 feet above ground – but for my life I have never had any of using stairs, ever. (Using ladders, yes, but only starting at 6 feet above ground).
Jeebus fucking Chris.
Gravenstone
Blockquote cleanup. aisle 12!
mai naem mobile
What is the aluminum foil monstrosity Ivanka is wearing in the picture from yesterday where Subway Jared is grabbing her ass? Shouldn’t she at least be wearing gold foil?
lollipopguild
@Gravenstone: So what is Trump going to do when ISIS sends suicide staircases to attack the White House?
PsiFighter37
Reading that Trump is screening ‘Finding Dory’ at the White House today.
What a goddamn joke.
LAO
OMG! It’ll be even cuter when Trump holds Putin’s hand.
Gravenstone
@mai naem mobile: Looks like a pattern for a do it yourself duct tape prom dress.
mai naem mobile
@Gravenstone: I don’t think he’s scared. I think it probably gets him short of breath. My dad as he was getting sicker couldn’t handle staira and it was cardiac not muscular.
Major Major Major Major
@Ben Cisco: I can’t believe that federal judge wouldn’t give Trump a chance. He won, after all. It’s so disrespectful! All those judges put up with eight years of Obama, after all.
@PsiFighter37: Eh, let the man watch a movie.
Baud
@PsiFighter37: At least he’s not reading My Pet Goat to schoolchildren.
lollipopguild
@PsiFighter37: He should be reading a book called “Your ass and how to find it”.
Another Scott
Dunno. He doesn’t look that afraid on this video of his first trip on Marine One and Air Force One.
Yeah, he holds onto the handrails, but that’s probably a sensible thing for a 70-year-old man to do on the first use of those stairs. And, yeah, I expect he will keep doing that as time goes on. He’s an old man.
Trump Executive Orders
Trump Appointments
I’m all for pointing and mocking when appropriate. But we have to keep our eyes on the prize.
Cheers,
Scot.
Gravenstone
@PsiFighter37: Wonder if he knows the main character is voiced by a lesbian? Wonder if Pence will skip out on it because of that fact?
Ben Cisco
@Another Scott: I’m quite capable of multitasking.
geg6
@mai naem mobile:
Inorite? Hideous dress for a truly hideous person.
XTPD
@mai naem mobile: If that’s why, then my conjecture that he’ll have left office in either handcuffs or a pine box by 1/1/2018 is already looking better by the minute.
Aunt Kathy
Pul-eeeeze let him fall and break a hip. pleasepleaseplease.
geg6
@Aunt Kathy:
His neck. Much better his neck.
Gin & Tonic
@Aunt Kathy: I have actually done that. It is very uncomfortable – something I wouldn’t wish on almost anyone. But I might make an exception here.
? Martin
How can you fight ISIS when you are afraid of motherfucking stairs?
mai naem mobile
If I was Pena Nieto and had a meeting with Lumpy and I had a little control over the location I would make sure it had at leat one decent set or stairs .Same goes for Trudeau ,Merkel and other western democracies. Screw with Lil Hands’ mind.
sukabi
@Baud: now be fair W wasn’t reading it either…unless his dyslexia works with the book upside down.
Joyce H
@mai naem mobile:
Remember that when he talked about his health, he bragged that he got a good workout giving speeches. So if standing at a podium and gesturing with his hands occasionally gives him a workout, his aerobic fitness must be dreadful!
I get an aerobic workout when I go to the grocery store, but I KNOW it’s because I’m out of shape, and I’m going to the gym four times a week to improve my fitness. He BRAGS about never exercising.
(As for stairs – urgh. But I have very bad arthritis in the knees.)
sukabi
@? Martin: fighting is for the peons, besides his hands aren’t big enough to fight off germs.
Spindle
Jezebel is all over this :
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
He may have some balance issues that cause anxiety; if I’m having a wobbly MS day, I can get anxious about stairs with no rail. I’ll mock him for being scared though, because I’m that much of an asshole. And he’s the scum of hell.
sukabi
@Another Scott: his “fears” are the excuses he uses to get away with things he wouldn’t otherwise be able to explain away…
He likely just wanted to grab Ms. Mays’ ass, but settled for her hand…
Lurking Buffoon
@Baud: Well first he’d need to be able to read.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Major Major Major Major: I know, what am I supposed to do? Wait until somebody shows up at my house? I DON’T FUCKING THINK SO.
Charlotte protests continue.
Iowa Old Lady
One of the many things I blame Trump for is that he makes me a worse person, so I take glee in stuff like this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Senator Gardner, and his staff, are going to spend most of tomorrow dealing with angry constituents
that’s not a response, it’s a tantrum
Shalimar
@? Martin: How can the Army fight ISIS when Bannon’s EO just got Iraq to bar all Americans from the country?
Teddy's Person
@sukabi: This was my first thought. Maybe she grabbed his tiny hand to stop him, and they’re spinning it. It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Going to be plenty of those in the next few days.
NotMax
Stairs are for the young(er).
The whole entrance via escalator was contrived to make Dolt 45 look like Zeus descending from Olympus.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Shalimar
@sukabi: Trump is a narcissist. He wouldn’t admit to an imperfection. More likely, Ivanka has noticed over the years that daddy refuses to use stairs, and she let the White House staff know to be careful of that. One of them passed it on to May and her assistants.
Another Scott
Oh, and here’s the video of him and May walking down the ramp at the White House (0:24). Yeah, he wants her support (and there are no hand rails for the tiny slope). He has a tiny guilty look at the end when he realizes it’s been filmed, I think…
Cheers,
Scott.
Anne Laurie
Old people have balance issues — especially old fat people who never get any exercise beyond running their yaps. Decaying joints don’t help, and Trump’s hips and knees aren’t in great shape, from the way he walks. And as others have mentioned, cardiac issues…
I’m hella cautious around stairs myself, which won’t stop me mocking this jagoff.
Since he can’t admit, even to himself, that he’s not the “stud” he was 50 years ago, Trump’s been isolating himself in his NYC penthouse for years. Now he’s got the White House, “the ultimate home office“, where it’s even easier for him to insist that people come to him.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): That looks like the NYTimes photo of the JFK protests vs the actual protests. Fucking Times had it looking like there was one whole protester.
Immanentize
@Iowa Old Lady: this. I feel like he is forcing me to sin against charity every day.
Shalimar
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Senator McCain will use his considerable power to confirm Attorney General Sessions, who will do nothing to change the blatant racism and discrimination but will at least vet and edit future orders so administration lawyers aren’t laughed out of court.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: Heh, May looks like she got a whiff of something quite unpleasant when he reaches over to pat the hand he’s already holding on to.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
I said earlier that the protest at RDU was yuuuge.
Schlemazel
@Another Scott:
NOPE! Attack, humiliate, denigrate and tweet on every rumor or hint of an issue. You know it will eat at him that we are laughing at him. With any luck this might push him to do something stupid like skipping down stairs to prove us wrong & he will fall. There is no down-side to this
Major Major Major Major
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: McCain seems to be mostly upset that nobody proofread the thing, not that it bans Muslims.
NotMax
Dubya held hands while strolling with a sheik and there wasn’t a staircase (or in his case, a horse) in sight.
It’s a strange affectation.
princess (now general) Leia
WH SOURCE: The WH is preparing for an earlier announcement of @realDonaldTrump’s pick for Supreme Court – likely Tues, possibly tomorrow
dogwood
@Baud:
I think we can safely assume this president won’t ever be reading to school children. He hates kids.
El Caganer
@PsiFighter37: So that’s how he’s vetting people for Navy Secretary? Jesus.
patrick II
I am waiting for Adam to write another “Take a Deep Breath and a Step Back” post because he felt various limits the law and congress will place on Donald would hold him back.
bemused
After the inauguration, he couldn’t be bothered to escort his own wife from the car and up the steps to meet the Obama’s together at White House. Melania was left by the car holding the gift for the Obama’s and he was already up the steps. She was left behind. What an ass.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Anne Laurie: Except that he’s constantly under the cameras without a second take in that ultimate home office. Can’t hide.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@princess (now general) Leia: QUICK! Change the subject!
pretty sure that’s been rescheduled from Thursday
Teddy's Person
@princess (now general) Leia: Yea? Fresh hell for a new week.
Tokyokie
I have a OA in my right knee, and it’s markedly weaker than the left one, so I’m leery of staircases, especially ones that are too steep or the steps are too high. I greatly prefer to have a rail on the right side when I’m descending stairs, and if there isn’t one, I often go down them one stair at a time. BUT I’M NOT SO SCARED THAT I REQUIRE SOMEONE TO HOLD MY HAND! Jesu Cristo su una bicicletta. He sure seems to be easily scared or saddened for such a manly man tough guy.
And I just saw the supposedly tricky slope he needed help to negotiate. It looked like a wheelchair access ramp to me. He’s too scared to go down a ramp that double amputees negotiate without difficulty? What a pathetic pansy.
NotMax
Has a SOTU been scheduled yet?
Chance for him to siip some tongue to the fawners in the aisle seats.
trollhattan
Wait’l he insists on a piggyback ride from the Saudi king. “I didn’t ban you guys, how much do you love me now?”
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Consequences of seeking a broad coalition for the opposition. Bigger concern is that McCain will cave.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Or “truth,” for that matter.
/old game show reference
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Joe Wilson will have to sheath his yap; will Scalito?
Technically I think the first address isn’t an SoTU, but an inaugural address to Congress or somesuch.
Renie
ACLU has raised $10 million dollars since yesterday. Help them out. How much longer do we have before President Bannon clamps down on protesting.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Yeah. Our VichyMedia, it is everywhere.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I heard they were getting 1,000 signatures per minute, and because over 100,000 had signed it, it would be debated in Parliament. What I would give to witness that!
? Martin
The ACLU says it has added 150,000 new members and raised over $10M since yesterday.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I’m all for that but it doesn’t seem like he’s really in opposition. It’s the implementation he doesn’t like, not the policy..
Ruckus
@lollipopguild:
First step, remove head from ass. This will make it easier to find. OTOH when you wear your ass for a hat, you should know where it is. Maybe he keeps his head in his ass for safekeeping.
petesh
The linked Times article (paywall but I can read one a day) is headlined “Trump and Charles in climate row” and includes this lovely bit:
No shit, Sherlock. And I very much doubt that the Queen’s private reaction to this would be anything but: FUCK OFF. Publicly, “Protocol would not allow.”
Another Scott
Drum:
Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?
Cheers,
Scott.
Shakti
@mai naem mobile: Who knows? He could have cardiovascular issues or balance issues but we won’t know that because he hasn’t released a proper physical. He could’ve just said that to get her to do something that made her uncomfortable.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I know. But I don’t think we should abandon process issues as a line of attack. The haphazardness will influence some voters.
NotMax
@petesh
Pray for a hot mic: “Who’s the old hag with the pocketbook and ugly hat?”
Major Major Major Major
@trollhattan: And we & our media buddies should make sure to needle him about how it isn’t actually a SOTU.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
McCain is always right on top of the issues. Unfortunately he always grasps at the wrong reason something is an issue. He is after all a Republican, as is the current Republican president.
dogwood
On MTP Tim Kaine said the Holocaust statement followed by the EO is a clear sign that Holocaust deniers are running the WH. Todd let that stand w/out pushing back. I watched the DeVos hearings on CSPAN and while Franken, who was great, and Warren who gets all the attention around here was fine, I thought Kaine used his limited time the best. He made her answer yes/or no relentlessly and covered more territory than the others.
NotMax
@Ruckus
McCain possesses a profound native stupidity which no amount of experience can eclipse.
Suzanne
Weird. I actually prefer stairs, because I am mildly phobic about elevators and escalators.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Wasn’t all that long ago that a big mall added a second level and the island got its first escalator.
Remember watching people here eyeing it warily and others showing up solely to ride it repeatedly.
Another Scott
So, I decided to look into (finally) signing up for Twitter, to keep up with things like the Scientists March. And then I read this (from 2013):
Yeah, Twitter (and Facebook) have to make money somehow on their “free” service. But …
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who will wait a while longer…)
Suzanne
@NotMax: Escalators very occasionally swallow people up and grind them between the gears. And elevators get stuck more often than one might think.
prostratedragon
@Ben Cisco:
So it has a name. I acquired it, probably in relation to a combination of stress and pulmonary issues, and it has improved as treatments for those have taken hold. The man should see a doctor, like maybe someone other than Dr. Cyphre. But then, we already knew that.
Pile on.
dogwood
I’m old enough to have learned my lesson about stairs and just being alert when I walk. Had a few falls over the last couple of years and really paid the price. The kind of falls you shake off when you’re younger, now take time to heal and give you discomfort in the aftermath.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Getting stuck is temporary. As the default is for elevator brakes to be fully engaged, there’s not much to fret about unless one is claustrophobic, Hollywood dramatizing notwithstanding.
People slip on stairs, too. Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances.
Jaker/Dublin
Steve Bannon now has half the power if not full…because they just put him on the Security Council so as to do his dirty dealing with Putin & silence the main stream media more.
A dangerous time for all free thinking Americans is here, because let’s go through it, Putin has a base called, United Russia. Trump has a base/cult called “Far Right Wingers” you can make the meaning of that name out yourselves. Putin has the Orthodox Church behind him; even though he’s more an Atheist, Trump has all the crazy American churches behind him in US. Putin has his mainstay press closed up/banned, even has done away with many journalists working independently against him. Trump/Bannon is now trying to do that subtly in US. To test the water with the American people & then move more fully in time so they completely control the Mainstream Press. You have seen traits of that in his first week.
Putin has always preached fear & has won all his elections by tramping on any opposition. Trump won his election with the help of Putin, Comey of the FBI & Russian Trolls & also fear & false propaganda. Putin has so far never fought with ISIS & never will only within his borders. Trump has used this rhetoric that Putin will help him fight ISIS as another lie so as you’ll all forget his cosy up to Putin & cronies & dropping sanctions. Putin is a Billionaire by robbing his people’s coffers (look up his secret palace), Donald Trump well you all knew how he became rich, as well as selling his name in gold to all sorts of other business shenanigans. Putin could start World war 3 in a second, Donald Trump could do the same & maybe even Steve Bannon as who knows if he has the numbers of the nuclear code as well? It’s a chilling thought.
These two men are the two most powerful men in the world, if you go about the amount of evil weapons they have under their control & the incredible uncertainty that beholds the world in the next few years, even sooner. As I said yesterday on a BBC blog, the people who changed the Armageddon clock just last Friday to 2/1/2 minutes to twelve should have changed it to a minute to twelve. It’s for me to say now as I always said from the start, Donald Trump was your worst choice for President ever & you made that choice. Now the question is? Will you LIVE by it?
PS. Watch the markets plummet worldwide tomorrow 30/1/2017
Aleta
@Ben Cisco: Not joking about the suffering involved. But I think I once experienced its intensity “when expected to actually descend a steep slope of sheer ice with two narrow boards clamped onto the feet.” Still a vivd memory.
Jeffro
Gotta fix dinner for the fambly in a minute but will be back later with my usual bs ;)
I know we can keep this up for four years, but my guess is we will see articles of impeachment by March…and it lifts my soul, oh yes it does…
Suzanne
@NotMax: I know about the brakes (I’m an architect—deal with elevators a lot). It’s not a drop issue. It’s a dislike of confinement, sometimes hours-long, in a crappy little space with nowhere to pee.
Stairs, ahhhh stairs.
stinger
@petesh: Pretty sure William knows to keep the tiny-handed molester as far away from the Duchess as possible.
Woodrowfan
@Ben Cisco: depends, American or German vets??
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@mai naem mobile:
Heard on the red carpet: “Who are you wearing, Ivanka?”
“Reynold’s Wrap.”
NotMax
@Suzanne
As age has overtaken litheness, going down stairs is still okay (although often both feet on one stair at a time is necessary). Going up is a whole ‘nother scale of problematic.
It was tres amusing, though, to witness Mauians treating the first escalator as they would the appearance of aliens.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Another Scott: Which is why I have browsers on my various computers used only for Twitter or Facebook.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Gravenstone:
It’s Super Bowl Sunday… any chance someone can send him a YUUUGE bag of pretzels, just in case he pulls a Bush but actually does choke.
Suzanne
@NotMax: I fell in my stairs at home a couple of years ago when I wasn’t feeling well. But I slipped while going down, which is more hazardous than going up.
I really like designing stairs. It’s fun. In my buildings, if there are stairs, I always try to make at least one stair really nice and all emergency egress stairs comfortable.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Elevator talk enough to link to a little ditty, courtesy of Allan Sherman.
Montanareddog
@debbie: I just signed the petition – I was the 755,934th signatory. That’s well over 1℅ of Brits who have signed
Montanareddog
@stinger: Any meeting with Princes William and Harry should be convivial given how President Bannon’s sockpuppet has boasted of how he “totally coulda nailed” their mother
Vhh
@Another Scott: Trump is not normal, he is a narcissist and a bully, whose first reaction to any criticism is to belittle and demean the author. When Cruz criticized Trump, he responded by accusing Cruz’s father of plotting to kill JFK. The best way to oppose Trump is criticism mockery at every turn. Dangerous, but necessary.
mattH
@Baud: It’s projection, always is.
CM
@Ben Cisco:
“Bathmophobia”!?! What a great word! Had never heard it.
We need to use it a lot. Sounds like he is afraid of taking a bath. Has an aura of stink about it. Some reporter needs to ask a question. Make Hair Furor deny it.
Lurking Canadian
@Ben Cisco: Maybe you can shame them by reminding them of the Four Freedoms those vets were defending, then ask which (if any) of the four your friends think Trump supports.
The Lodger
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Actually, her designer was Stavros the Gyro King.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Also still in use at Macy’s flagship store on Herald Square in NYC.
Another Scott
@Suzanne: There were some old escalators in the county building in Dayton OH when I was a kid. At the end points they had these really long metal fingers that stuck out several inches from the mounting point. There were stories that several people had been mauled by them (sandals getting eaten, bare feet getting eaten, etc.).
Like these (see the 2nd picture). I don’t recall if they were wood – I thought they were metal.
Very dangerous beasties.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruviana
@CM: That was what I thought. I thought it was more indicative of Bannon.
No Drought No More
If your teeny tiny hands would snap like twigs if needed to break a fall, you’d be scared of stairs, too.
Suzanne
@Another Scott: Yes. I am very conscious of where my feet are on escalators, especially when wearing shoes with laces.
But I know of at least two incidents in which the tread collapsed and sucked a person inside completely. Escalators = DEATH TRAPS.
Sloane Ranger
@Montanareddog: He has also commented on Kate’s feminine “attributes”.
Bill Arnold
@Ben Cisco:
Ah, thanks for the link. Linked this story this AM in another thread but didn’t know the name.
Also, don’t forget the germaphobia. (E.g. sexuality implications, to not to speculate would be irresponsible, etc. )
Original Lee
@Suzanne: Bless you. The emergency stairs in my office building are horrible. The treads are very shallow, so everyone with a shoe size over U.S. Women’s 8 has to go down at an angle, and the rises are a little too high, so the angle going down is steeper than average. When we have fire drills, everybody on floors above the 4th floor knows they wouldn’t get out in time if it were real.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
I seem to recall that C-SPAN broadcasts debates and Question Time. Worth tracking the Parliamentary Calendar to find out when the debate is scheduled.
SiubhanDuinne
@petesh:
I am in a Facebook group that keeps me more up-to-date on the doings of the British Royal Family than any American should be. When they posted about the “invitation from the Queen” for a “state visit,” the group administrator felt the need to plead “No politics, please.” HAHAHA, as if.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
It’s a legit worry. I’ve lived in a town home for the past 14 or so years, but have tumbled down the long flight of stairs and sometimes find them tiring to climb. When my lease nears its end in a few months, I’m going to talk to the apartment management about possibly moving to a flat in the same complex. Probably look for something a bit smaller, too — I really need to downsize (and would be glad to save money renting a smaller place).
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Wait, you pee on the STAIRS?
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t, but apparently other people do, judging by the smell of some of the egress stairs I’ve been in.
Suzanne
@Original Lee: That is now controlled by the IBC. Stair treads must be at least 11 inches deep, plus a one-inch nosing, and between 4 and 7 inches high. Also, they must have a 12 inch deep extension of the handrail at the bottom, 42″ high guardrails, and no more than a 4″ gap between the pickets on the guardrail. Old buildings often have bad stairs.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
If you ever come to Atlanta, remind me not to introduce you to certain of our MARTA (rapid transit) stations. Some of the stairwells, let alone elevators, are pretty disgusting. Sadly, I suppose that’s true everywhere.
Suzanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Stair piss is a universal.
Feebog
A few years ago, when I was a lot more mobile then I am now, I was riding down behind a woman and her son, who was about 4 years old. The Mom got off first, and as the boy approached the bottom his shoe string, which had come untied, was swallowed by the escalator. I didn’t think so much as react, reached down and snapped the shoe string just as it began to pull at the tennis shoe. Don’t know what would have happened, but I sure as hell make sure my shoes strings are tied before getting on the escalator.
Bill Arnold
@? Martin:
Donated to the ACLU just now for the first time. Thanks for the nudges all of you.
Donate to the ACLU
Peter H Desmond
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): so we should add Charlotte to the list: airport protests at JFK, Dulles, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, and other cities.
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
Some basic advice from eff.org, though nowhere near paranoid enough.
Also this how to enable two factor authentication but note that this usually means giving them a cell phone number.
The mildly paranoid might consider making a pseudonymous twitter account and accessing it through only one device. The more paranoid (e.g. about their government, wherever they are, and often fully justified) take considerably greater lengths. (burner phone, vpn, the works.) In the US, twitter has recently been able to acknowledge that they’ve had to release personal account details several times due to National Security Letters.
(Can you tell that I’m extremely irritated that the US is being pushed down the totalitarianism chute?)
NotMax
@Bill Arnold
While speaking of EFF, their browser add-on Privacy Badger is highly recommended by this user.
Peter H Desmond
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): so we should add Charlotte to the list: airport protests at JFK, Dulles, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, and other cities.
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: and Raleigh-Durham!
in fact, i found a list of planned protests; 38 hits for “airport”.
Peter H Desmond
can’t seem to post a URL:
pseudonymous in nc
Fred probably pushed him down the stairs as punishment. We do know that someone he bullied as a sociopathic child threw a lunch pail at the back of his head on a flight of stairs.