Because the filibuster of CIA director nominee John Brennan approached its eight-hour mark Wednesday night, Sen. Rand Paul and his fellow outraged colleagues commenced to point out signs of tiring, with little left unsaid about the Obama administration and the drone software. But to the rescue got here Sen. Ted Cruz, armed with a stack of paper on which supportive tweets have been printed.

Cruz defined that as a result of senators are usually not allowed to make use of electronics within the Senate chamber, it was once uncertain that Paul knew in regards to the outpouring of improve for his feat that has been flowing on Twitter for many of the day.

He then proceeded to spend several minutes studying directly from the checklist of tweets, frequently the usage of the hashtags #filiblizzard or #StandWithRand, each of which have been trending nationally on and off right through the day. To the probably chagrin of the tweets’ authors, Cruz didn’t point out any particular Twitter handles. And naturally, the content was kept brazenly positive, with a few tweets about how “proud” individuals had been of their new “hero” Rand Paul.

As soon as Cruz had finished studying his list, he uttered a phrase that up unless this point had almost certainly no longer been used on the Senate flooring. “I think the technical term for what the Twitterverse is doing at this time is known as blowing up.”

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