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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: James Woods Returns to Twitter with Guns Blazing, Takes Aim at CNN, Ocasio-Cortez, Clintons James Woods Returns to Twitter with Guns Blazing, Takes Aim at CNN, Ocasio-Cortez, Clintons James Woods Makes Triumphant Return to Twitter with Guns Blazing Volume 90% By Andrew J. Sciascia Published February 7, 2020 at 12:33pm Conservative actor James Woods took no prisoners this week in his long-awaited return to Twitter. Returning unannounced to the platform after an April 2019 account suspension and a lengthy self-enforced hiatus, the known antagonist made up for lost time Thursday night with wisecracks and one-liners for seemingly every left-wing institution and political figure of note — beginning with upstart New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Attached to the actor’s first tweet in nearly 10 months was a viral video clip of Ocasio-Cortez, a post-graduate bartender-turned-U.S. representative, belittling the American notion of “lifting oneself up by the bootstraps” as unrealistic, if not mythical. “I’ve tried so hard this past year to live without the wealth of knowledge available on Twitter,” Woods quipped, “but this kind of blazing insight can be found nowhere else, so … I’m back!” twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1225623348748546049 twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1225625083898580993 “I was on vacation awhile, avoiding the news,” Woods wrote shortly after. “How’d the #Mueller thing work out? The #impeachment scam? Who won the #Iowa caucuses? Is #MichaelAvenatti still a contender for the Democratic nomination for President? How’s #JeffreyEpstein doing?” According to The Daily Wire, the 72-year-old actor ran into a spot of trouble with Twitter’s policy enforcement officials last spring, posting rather cryptically with regard to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into President Donald Trump, “‘If you try to kill the King, you better not miss.’ #HangThemAll.” The quote was paraphrased from American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s classic line, “When you strike at a king, you must kill him” — an allusion to the potential consequences and backlash faced throughout history by those who seek to unseat those in power. That did not, however, stop the social media giant from labeling the tweet as threatening, and indefinitely suspending Woods’ account for an alleged violation of site policy regarding “abusive behavior.” Only serving to prolong Woods’ exile from the closing political frontier of Twitter was an unwillingness to budge regarding the platform’s request that allegedly “abusive” content be scrubbed from his account, which the actor felt represented an abandonment of free speech by the social media giant. “Twitter demanded that I rescind my tweet paraphrasing Emerson,” Woods later said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “It now seems they have chosen to delete that tweet from my account without my permission.” “Until free speech is allowed on Twitter, I will not be permitted to participate in our democracy with my voice,” he added. “As long as Jack Dorsey remains the coward he seems to be, my Twitter days are in the past.” Woods has not yet made clear whether his return to the platform stems simply from a desire to once again be engaged in the public sphere, or from a genuine belief that Twitter’s leadership has corrected course with regard to free speech — but the actor certainly seemed willing to test the boundaries Thursday. Met with immense support from thousands of fans, including the president himself, Woods was anything but indigent when it came to ammunition following his mockery of Ocasio-Cortez. Poster Comment: Indeed, Trump wasted no time in attacking those who tried to unseat him. James Woods dissed the founder of Twitter. And we know that, "Das ist verboten." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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