Bernie Sanders Just Tweeted The Most Evergreen Response To CBO Score
Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted out just three words on Wednesday afternoon and Twitter thoroughly appreciated its timelessness.
What a disgrace.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2017
The tweet came after the Congressional Budget Office said that 23 million fewer Americans would have insurance under the American Health Care Act, legislation that House Republicans passed last month.
Sanders isn’t saying “what a disgrace” to be flippant ― the AHCA will severely impact millions of people. Particularly elderly and low-income enrollees, who will experience an 800 percent jump in their premiums.
But Twitter is Twitter, and users noted that, yes, it IS a disgrace. And that phrase pretty much applies to everything right now. It’s an evergreen statement, if you will.
Pretty evergreen tweet these days. https://t.co/sDCYaWOijJ
— Rob Czyzewicz (@RobCzyz) May 24, 2017
evergreen no-context-needed tweet https://t.co/gbLcdcxsRP
— Samit Sarkar (@SamitSarkar) May 24, 2017
Evergreen tweet. https://t.co/F3z6CvKYgf
— TC (@tchopstl_) May 24, 2017
Evergreen tweet https://t.co/fftLkoXTzU
— Matt Ferner (@matthewferner) May 24, 2017
~evergreen bern~https://t.co/IjZjsz5O3Y
— Andrew Dooley (@andrewmdooley) May 24, 2017
evergreen tweet https://t.co/k46TYp6ONt
— Ella Dawson (@brosandprose) May 24, 2017
Evergreen tweet. https://t.co/eFNDRva4Mw
— katharine (@katharine_blair) May 24, 2017
Evergreen tweet https://t.co/uAbQ9g94UX
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) May 24, 2017
Evergreen tweet. https://t.co/waNg4iNlMr
— Steve Gignac (@SteveGignac) May 24, 2017
Of course, there were other jokes about the tweet, too:
is this Pirates of the Caribbean 5 twitter or CBO score twitter https://t.co/WQ3uqF6b74
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 24, 2017
But, disgrace or not, health care right now... is a mess. And that’s not funny at all.
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