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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Apr 10

    They're both very sprightly for their age, but consider that the two oldest Senators (both Grassley and DiFi are 84) are presiding over this hearing on social media.

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      2. i bless the rains down in Castamere‏ @Chinchillazllla Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Also consider Chuck Grassley's tweeting style in general

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Apr 10
        Replying to @Chinchillazllla

        Hey, I'm a huge Grassley Twitter fan!

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      4. i bless the rains down in Castamere‏ @Chinchillazllla Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        assume deer dead

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      1. $7WorthofHoobastank‏ @busterbivin Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        They are both, presumably, able to understand the selling of consumers' information to third-parties.

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      1. Marcy Cornell‏ @lostinyourinbox Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @onlxn

        Hopefully their staffs are younger and able to explain to them how teh internets work.

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      1. Ashley‏ @ashleythetexan Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Although, to be fair, Grassley at least does his own tweets.

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      1. Lbsmith‏ @lbsmith Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        At least @SenFeinstein lives in California and knows a little something about high tech.

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      1. John Wold‏ @notalabradoodle Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Emperor Zuck appreciates the deference of the most distinguished and venerated senators #emperorzuck

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      1. mike pod‏ @podmanic Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @onlxn

        One has to assume that there are young, and equally spry aides who can feed him the right questions, and digest the answers...

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      1. insunlite‏ @insunlite Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        They understand campaign contributions and besides this is old news....https://youtu.be/s0bV2b4WMmQ 

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      1. Thirdcloud‏ @thirdcloud Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        After the fact Grandstanding isn’t legislative—they should have been proactive long ago

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      1. leservale‏ @lesservale Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        #SocialMediaElite Wow what an ageist crowd here. Did you never learn anything new in adulthood?

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      1. GrimdarkMark Spence 死‏ @marktspence Apr 10
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        When they misunderstand "AWS" and "Azure"...pic.twitter.com/aaATG5bcLY

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      1. Lisa Storm‏ @deidretree Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I recall the CA CEO Nix sneering that the US intelligence committee he appeared before had no idea of what questions to ask.

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      1. miss speech‏ @miss_speech Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        are they wearing dungarees

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      1. jdra‏ @noahjacobmama Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I hope they have young, tech savvy briefers.

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      1. Lock Down Your Life‏ @lockdownurlife Apr 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        This should be very interesting.pic.twitter.com/JXqkQ7PRzE

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