Okay fine🧵.

Guys. People lost their minds when Trump walked slowly down a ramp one time.

I don’t think the Biden stair stumble stuff should matter. But boy did the media set one hell of a precedent about presidential walking patterns.

And if you’ve forgotten, read on ā¤µļø

Remember this very earnest and concerned @nytimes story (and video!)? Suggesting his ā€œhalting walkā€ ā€œraises new health questionsā€??

I wonder if we’ll hear about how Biden is the oldest president when (if?) his stair story hits print.
And people picked this story up. This was a whole news cycle! Here’s @kylegriffin1 and @jaketapper sharing this story as if it were something that mattered.
I mean, cmon! @washingtonpost *fact checked* Trump’s claim that the stairs were slippery!

Are you kidding me?! @PhilipRucker @seungminkim
This wasn’t the first time Trump’s stair walking was a media cycle. You may remember in 2017, there was another scandal about Trump’s supposed fear of stairs.

@CNN had it as a chyron for a whole segment!

About whether Trump might be afraid of stairs!!
@CNN was of course all over #rampgate too.

@ChrisCillizza wrote an entire story about why the ramp mattered!
Slightly different tone this time! @CNN
Thankfully nothing gets past @atrupar
I mean ffs. @PoliticusSarah.
These people have no shame.
I mean Trump actually had to *defend himself* against these media allegations. @Slate, no friend of the former president, even said so.
I mean not even kidding you @Forbes did a whole breakdown of the ramp situation AND how people were reacting to it.
Take a bow, @NYDailyNews
And the British press. Well. I don’t even know. @BBCNews & @TheSun were dogged in their pursuit of whether Trump was, in fact, afraid of stairs.
Here’s former Nixon White House counsel @JohnWDean with some real blue anon nonsense. ā€œPhysically and mentally impairedā€ okay sure.
I just want to do one of these threads that doesn’t also include @JRubinBlogger
But you see, this was a huge to-do for the NeverTrump-turned-Dem crowd. @ProjectLincoln put it into adds. @kylegriffin1 shared a story from @washingtonpost about how this saga questioned Trump’s fitness.
Of course all the usual grifters jumped on. Here’s:

@ananavarro
@BillKristol
@SteveSchmidtSES (go figure)
@GeorgeTakei (Lordy)
This shit should. not. matter. It has never mattered. There are all sorts of issues with Biden - including his mental and physical health - but whether he can adroitly jog up stairs isn’t the issue.

Hopefully this episode will help the mainstream media learn that.
What will happen from here is simple: conservatives dunk on Biden, and the media and Dems push back that it’s unfair.

Well you know what? Your rules. You made this bed. Be better.
I’m losing my mind.
I just. What are we doing here @nytimes
Kudos to @Slate though they nailed it on this.
For new folks/those asking, I don’t have anything to sell or subscribe to. But if you’re able, food banks remain in desperate need of support. For those in DC (or otherwise) I think Capital Area Food Bank does great work. https://t.co/mtSmgEq0Up
Cool, cool.

You May Also Like

A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.

Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.