Stephen King: These Tweets Will Kill You!

[rawsilk]

https://twitter.com/StephenKing?ref_src=twsrc^tfw





Stephen King ‏@StephenKing Nov 28

Anybody remember THE CAINE MUTINY? It seems that Americans may have elected Captain Queeg president.
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Stephen King Retweeted
Tomthunkit™ ‏@TomthunkitsMind Nov 26

Racist president
Racist chief strategist
Racist attorney general
Racist natsec advisor
Media: "how Trump will govern remains to be seen"

Stephen King talks about his horror of a Trump presidency:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-talks-about-his-horror-of-a-trump-presidency

 

[RabbleVox]

The tweets were brilliant, the Guardian article was devastating.

I love that man with a deep and abiding non-erotic love. I just happen to be reading one of his recent ones; "Finders Keepers", the sequel to "Mr. Mercedes". It's not his best, but it's up in his top 20, and that's saying a lot. He is sharp and fierce and insightful, and one of the four best American writers ever.

Now please excuse me while I go ejaculate.

 

[rawsilk]

Stephen King ‏@StephenKing 29m29 minutes ago

Oh, and grandiosity. If you had a close relative behaving this way, you'd encourage him to see his/her doctor.
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Stephen King ‏@StephenKing 30m30 minutes ago

Trump's tweets display hysteria, aggression, paranoia, insecurity. Politics aside, his mental state bears close watching.

....nothing further to add.

 

[Iceprincess12]

I used to love Stephen King, I read him growing up and thought of him as my favorite author. I think The Dark Tower series was brilliant and the high point of his career. It was a complete series and didn't need any of the extra books he wrote. I bought the one about the sisters and can't bring myself to read it.

I guess when your writing can't speak for itself anymore you take to Twitter to find a new voice. I can't remember the last book I bought and read from him, but I do remember Tom Gordon...such garbage. I hope tweeting helps him write a better book. I hate thinking of him as a has-been author.

 

[sexywriterfla]

I used to love Stephen King, I read him growing up and thought of him as my favorite author. I think The Dark Tower series was brilliant and the high point of his career. It was a complete series and didn't need any of the extra books he wrote. I bought the one about the sisters and can't bring myself to read it.

I guess when your writing can't speak for itself anymore you take to Twitter to find a new voice. I can't remember the last book I bought and read from him, but I do remember Tom Gordon...such garbage. I hope tweeting helps him write a better book. I hate thinking of him as a has-been author.

Your opinion. You know where I stand with the still brilliant King of Horror.

 

[rawsilk]

I used to love Stephen King, I read him growing up and thought of him as my favorite author. I think The Dark Tower series was brilliant and the high point of his career. It was a complete series and didn't need any of the extra books he wrote. I bought the one about the sisters and can't bring myself to read it.

I guess when your writing can't speak for itself anymore you take to Twitter to find a new voice. I can't remember the last book I bought and read from him, but I do remember Tom Gordon...such garbage. I hope tweeting helps him write a better book. I hate thinking of him as a has-been author.

According to Forbes $ per page: $22,000 - 2015 earnings: $19 mil Looks like he has plenty of other readers even if you are over cowboy fantasy. I can understand that.

 

[Beco]

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Stephen King ‏@StephenKing Nov 28

Anybody remember THE CAINE MUTINY? It seems that Americans may have elected Captain Queeg president.
328 replies 1,019 retweets 4,312 likes
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Stephen King Retweeted
Tomthunkit™ ‏@TomthunkitsMind Nov 26

Racist president
Racist chief strategist
Racist attorney general
Racist natsec advisor
Media: "how Trump will govern remains to be seen"

Stephen King talks about his horror of a Trump presidency:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-talks-about-his-horror-of-a-trump-presidency

I guess we had a clue how Hillary would govern??? Come on ...

Remember, We are stronger, together <-------------------

 

[rawsilk]

I guess we had a clue how Hillary would govern??? Come on ...

Remember, We are stronger, together <-------------------

I did have some theories on how she would have governed given the work she has done over the years with social responsibility.

I believe....

1) She would have put a sugar tax on all sweetened beverages.

2) She would have changed the food guidelines to put more emphasis on reducing starch carbohydrates and increasing quality fat consumption.

3) She would have forced the big chain stores to open more fresh food outlets in the inner poor areas where there is no fresh food available, only fast food.

4) She would have increased taxes on tobacco products and introduced plain packaging on tobacco products and probably had them removed from open shelving.

5)She would have initiated a jobs incentive for the poorer inner areas.

6) There would have been a drive to create better health for the poorer areas.

7) Obama health would have been made more efficient

8) Better food choices would have been put into the school lunch system

9) Hormones and other chemical poisons would have been outlawed in the meat industry

10) There may have been closer scrutiny on GMO foods and crops

11) There would have been more incentive to move to solar and greener forms of fuel.

12) Fossils fuels would have been slowly phased out.

13) There would have been better programs for social integration for new immigrants

14) The International community in general would have seen America as a growth nation again.

15) Her experience within the presidents office would have been a calm transition, without excited and inappropriate outbursts of Tweets.

This list could go on, it is just a touch of what I saw her potential to achieve.

In conclusion I saw America under Clinton as a power house full steam ahead with a healthier, happier and wealthier population.

Under Trump I see America is now going to be torn apart by stupidity and hysteria. It is going to be a divided nation governed in a knee jerk manner by someone with no experience or temperament for the job. It will be unhealthier, unhappier and a much, much poorer nation in every way.

 

[RabbleVox]

Under Trump I see America is now going to be torn apart by stupidity and hysteria. It is going to be a divided nation governed in a knee jerk manner by someone with no experience or temperament for the job. It will be unhealthier, unhappier and a much, much poorer nation in every way.

Dear gods I wish I could argue with you on this, but you've summed it up.

Democratic Americans now need to focus on three things.

Fighting Trump, including using the filibuster and the nuclear option. (to non-Americans, that's a Senate debate phrase that involves no actual weapons)

Making sure the next Supreme is at least a smart, moderate conservative, and not a mouth-breathing, inbred idiot.

And most important of all, trying to take back the state houses before the next round of re-districting in 2020. This one is really the key.

It's "inside baseball" and too wonky and boring for most folk, but I tell you true, unless we Dems can turn a few "red states" blue, we lose again in four years.

We lost, we got spanked hard, we've gotta deal with it.

We can be "whiney little bitches", doing our protests and demands for recounts...

Or we can roll up our sleeves and get the fuck to work on the real shit to take our nation back.

Peace,
R

 

[KingOrfeo]

I guess we had a clue how Hillary would govern???

Of course we do. She has been in public life too long to be much of a mystery.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Dear gods I wish I could argue with you on this, but you've summed it up.

Democratic Americans now need to focus on three things.

Fighting Trump, including using the filibuster and the nuclear option. (to non-Americans, that's a Senate debate phrase that involves no actual weapons)

Making sure the next Supreme is at least a smart, moderate conservative, and not a mouth-breathing, inbred idiot.

And most important of all, trying to take back the state houses before the next round of re-districting in 2020. This one is really the key.

And the fourth thing, which is the key to the third: Downplay social liberalism, refocus on economic populism. There's no other way to win back the white working class. For a long time there, many of them were actually wavering between Trump and Sanders, hard as that is to believe. Sanders represents the way the party needs to go to win. As for the culture war, liberals have mostly won that already, and generational change will finish the job; Millennials are very socially liberal, they're less racist and more gay-friendly and more secular and have more atheists than older generations. But the economic libertarianism of the RW can still appeal to a lot of them, and that's the front we need to fight on.

 

[phrodeau]

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Media: "how Trump will govern remains to be seen"

That phrase always reminds me of a funeral parlor, filled with remains to be seen.

 

[RabbleVox]

That phrase always reminds me of a funeral parlor, filled with remains to be seen.

It really sucks when the "remains" are of the nation I went to war for.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, the Trump Chumps aren't going to like where this thread has gone.

 

[JawnKarTurr]

Anyone who voted for Hilary really is in no position to be critical of Trump's character. A author horror doesn't think he'll make a good president. Who cares? If Trump was writing a novel I think his opinion might be helpful.

 

[Beco]

It really sucks when the "remains" are of the nation I went to war for.

Which war?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Anyone who voted for Hilary really is in no position to be critical of Trump's character.

. . . How does that follow? Her character is immeasurably better than his. If you turn it around, then it would be true: Anyone who voted for Trump really is in no position to be critical of Hillary's character.

A author horror doesn't think he'll make a good president. Who cares?

You should, because, while neither is a pol, King is a lot smarter than Trump. Just try to imagine Trump having this kind of valuable insight, or, for that matter, understanding it in the unlikely event he should happen to read it:

"I don’t believe in the so-called dumbing down of America, but as everyday reading declines – and it has – analytical thought also declines. Reading is for fun and for me that’s a big deal, but it also sharpens the nose for the unmistakable odour of bullshit,” said King.

“We live in a society where many believe that libraries and other cultural endeavours, everything from Shakespeare in the Park to poetry slams and free concerts, are of minor importance. As if learning to think is a thing that just happens naturally, like learning to walk. Believe me, it’s not. Learning to think is the result of hard work and steady effort.”

This “disregard” for culture, said King, leads to “illiteracy or semi-literacy in a national population where large numbers of people are lazy thinkers without any of that nose for bullshit”.

This means, he said, that politicians “are allowed to slide by with generalities rather than specifics”, and “elected officials who are supposed to be the best, the smartest, often resort to outright misinformation”.

“Note the way that Donald Trump falls back on saying this-and-such is going to be huge or this-and-such is beautiful. Any writer or reader worth his salt will say those words by themselves mean absolutely nothing,” he said. “Trump makes me wince not as a Democrat, which I am, but as a writer and reader. Listening to his speeches is like listening to a piano fall down stairs. It’s all dissonance and no music. God, I’m going to miss Obama … There was poetry, always music, in what he said.”

 

[JawnKarTurr]

. . . How does that follow? Her character is immeasurably better than his. If you turn it around, then it would be true: Anyone who voted for Trump really is in no position to be critical of Hillary's character.

Yes I've always been impressed by the HRC supporter's ability to overlook scandals and failure. You're a credit to the cult sir.

You should, because, while neither is a pol, King is a lot smarter than Trump. Just try to imagine Trump having this kind of valuable insight, or, for that matter, understanding it in the unlikely event he should happen to read it:

Yes Trump only has success in business and entertainment while Mr. King has written some scary books. If Mr. King was a Trump supporter I'm sure you'd be calling him a hack. Trump says he enjoys reading but is often too busy dealing with the real world. That is someone I want in the white house.

Now have a good cry and deal with the fact Trump is President.

 

[Hypoxia]

Now have a good cry and deal with the fact Trump is President.

What, it's 20 Jan 2017 already? Or even 19 Dec 2016? The current President is Barrack Hussein Obama. Tromp is making much noise in the wings but he is not in office. Yet. And there are no guarantees.

 

[rawsilk]

Yes Trump only has success in business and entertainment while Mr. King has written some scary books. If Mr. King was a Trump supporter I'm sure you'd be calling him a hack. Trump says he enjoys reading but is often too busy dealing with the real world. That is someone I want in the white house.

Now have a good cry and deal with the fact Trump is President.

Trump has actually filed Chapter 11 six times, four times within two years in the 1990s, once more in 2004 and once more in 2009.

Bankruptcy No. 1: The Trump Taj Mahal, 1991
Bankruptcy No. 2: Trump Castle, 1992
Bankruptcy No. 3: Trump Plaza and Casino, 1992
Bankruptcy No. 4: Plaza Hotel, 1992
Bankruptcy No. 5: Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts, 2004
Bankruptcy No. 6: Trump Entertainment Resorts, 2009

There is so much carried forward loss he will probably never pay tax. That is why he wasn't prepared to release his tax records for scrutiny. It would tell of the billions of dollars of loss he is carrying.

King on the other hand did pay his taxes as Forbes was able to say he earned 2015 earnings: $19 mil
King is a successful writer entertaining millions upon millions of people. A massive film industry was born of his work giving major employment to people and making it possible for others to also make a lot of money.

I call people for what they are, successful or unsuccessful. Trump has filed for bankruptcy six times and holds billions of dollars in losses. Trump is not a successful business man.

King has made enormous sums of money for himself and others. King is a success both as a writer and a business man.

 

[sr71plt]

Filing chapter 11 isn't a singular personal issue. You are stiffing a great many people--probably many of the Trump Chumps--who already performed services for you and now are going to have to swallow the losses while the one who filed chapter 11 is going to walk away with a clear slate any money he managed to siphon off and hide (read Trump).

 

[rawsilk]

Stephen King ‏@StephenKing 8h8 hours ago

Trump's mental condition is open to debate, I suppose; that he's an incompetent asshat seems undeniable.

Lovely punctuation.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yes Trump only has success in business and entertainment while Mr. King has written some scary books. If Mr. King was a Trump supporter I'm sure you'd be calling him a hack.

If Mr. King were a Trump supporter he probably would be a hack. How many good writers do you know of who have anything good to say for Trump?

Trump says he enjoys reading but is often too busy dealing with the real world. That is someone I want in the white house.

But King is not the one who is claiming, on no good basis whatsoever, to be qualified for the world's most important public office. He's just a writer publishing his opinions on public affairs, and those opinions are manifestly far better informed and of far greater value than Trump's.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Stephen King is an iconic writer/author. He's guided and inspired generations of readers. His impact on the Literary business has been profound.

He's also an ass...when it comes to politics.


These two opinions...can coexist.

And being an ass about politics, whatever you mean by that, does not make him wrong about politics, and in this instance he is not wrong.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Calling someone an asshat isn't commenting on politics. It's an ad hominem attack, and a weak logical argument


Just cause you agree... doesn't change what he tweeted.

Why does that matter? Calling someone an asshat is the kind of thing Twitter is for (and if you don't get that, you can be sure Trump does). It is a limited medium of expression. But read the article and you'll see a lot of serious thinking behind the tweets.