117,000 Retweets, 119,000 Likes in less than 1 hour.
As a FB friend noted, it took Obama 7 years to achieve “no f*cks to give” status.
Hillary (or her campaign, at least) appears to have gotten there right out of the gate. Bravo.
I should note, however, that we should also all take a moment to pay tribute to the death of “Delete Your Account” at the hands of Hillary Clinton. It has passed on, gone to a better place, the way “Thanks, Obama!” did a year and a half ago when President Obama himself euthanized it beautifully:
UPDATE: It occurs to me that if Hillary does pick Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, the two of them on the campaign trail will look something like the following:
(For the record, the single most popular tweet remains, I believe, the group celebrity selfie by Ellen DeGeneres, with 3.3 million retweets / 2.2 million likes):
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I’m running for Oakland County Commissioner here in Mitt Romney’s hometown. Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
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In addition, please help out Nicole Bedi, running for State Representative here in Michigan’s 40th state House seat!
(in fact, if you can only spare a donation for one of us, please donate to her campaign instead of mine; while I obviously want to win my own race, retaking the state house is more important!)
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UPDATE: The tweet itself, of course; now up to over 170K / 180K...
UPDATE x2: The inevitable (if ironic, given that it took him 2 hours to come up with it) response…
...to which I replied:
And we’re off and running...