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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 10:02 PM Sep 2018

Rick Wilson thread on #DeepStateThroat

Link to tweet

10 Tweets in total - first one posted below

1/ A quick memo for #DeepStateThroat, the WH NYT Op-Ed writer.

First, golf clap. Half marks. You know what you're doing in service to Trump is morally indefensible, but you're trying to "But Gorsuch!" yourself out of the ethical hole.

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Rick Wilson thread on #DeepStateThroat (Original Post) NewJeffCT Sep 2018 OP

Golf clap? "But Gorsuch!"? What kind of shorthand is this? Glorfindel Sep 2018 #1

I'm pretty old, too NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #2

Thank you, NewJeffCT. Now I get it. I just couldn't believe than ANYONE would think Glorfindel Sep 2018 #3

Glorfindel

(9,714 posts)

1. Golf clap? "But Gorsuch!"? What kind of shorthand is this?

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 10:07 PM

Sep 2018

Are we so far into the Age of Twitter that us old fogies will be completely left behind?

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

2. I'm pretty old, too

Reply to Glorfindel (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 10:09 PM

Sep 2018

but, Wilson is trying to say that passing tax reform and/or naming Neil Gorusch to the SCOTUS is not worth selling your soul and the country down the toilet.

(Golf clap is a light clapping without much enthusiasm)

Glorfindel

(9,714 posts)

3. Thank you, NewJeffCT. Now I get it. I just couldn't believe than ANYONE would think