Eric Swalwell tweet that Speaker Pelosi just re-tweeted

[BumRushDaShow]

Link to tweet

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Rep. Eric Swalwell
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@RepSwalwell

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┻┳| It’s impossible to
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┻┳| •.•) Get serious, GOP!
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8:15 AM - Oct 29, 2019

[NewJeffCT]

1. I'm not very fluent in emoji

what is Swalwell saying with his images and little person figure?

[NYC Liberal]

3. It's a person peeking out from behind a wall.

I.e., Republicans, come out and do the right thing.

[calimary]

8. Very cleverly done, too!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Well that sortof thing goes back a-ways

I know in the early '70s in school, we were using keystrokes on the typewriter in typing class to design "pictures", so they are just doing it now with the same keyboard characters but on a phone (or other electronic device with a display and keyboard). I think we used to call it "ASCII art" and the "smileys" that were created with keyboard characters, were eventually called "emoticons". The "emojis" of today are actually graphic pictures of smileys that were standardized for use on the web and mobile devices.

For that tweet, it looks like some figure peeping from behind a wall. Am guessing he is telling the GOP to stop hiding? I was in college when he was born so he's not my generation.

[Tanuki]

5. I took it to mean "stonewalling."

[NewJeffCT]

6. I wasn't sure

I was thinking maybe a Trump Wall reference, but it seems with 3 different responses above, there are no clear answers?

[BumRushDaShow]

7. LOL that's a good one too!

I guess that is the beauty of a meme trying to be born.

[Ragrum]

13. Moving the Goal Post

[Iliyah]

2. For years the Republican party spouted

"What about the Constitution"?

[George II]

9. It's excellent, but I'll bet one of his kids did that for him! Great.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. His kids are only 1 and 2 years old

He is right on the cusp of the youngest of GenXers and oldest of the Millennials (born in 1980). This stuff is his generation.

[George II]

11. Hah, thanks. I thought he had one approaching ten. But it's very clever, and...

....has a double "wall" meaning.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Could have been one of his staff that did it.

It does have all kinds of "wall" meanings!

[xxqqqzme]

14. I'm just glad there are DU persons

interpreting it for some of us. I was baffled, I thought it was a ladder?

[BumRushDaShow]

18. It made me think of this -

[warmfeet]

21. Love it!

[lunatica]

20. With key strokes it takes a bit of study to 'see' it.

It’s not just us oldies who need to pause and put it together.

But once you see it, it looks very clever!

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. I kid you not (pun intended), I watched a two year old...

toddle over to a PC, turn it on, and start using it a week ago Saturday. Blew my effing mind! I think she's probably on the closer end of two to three years old than one, but still. Dayum!

[BumRushDaShow]

16. My nieces and nephews were glued to "devices" since the time they were little

like 20 - 30 years ago. Their little fingers could manipulate the buttons better than any of us! I have grand nieces and nephews who are just transfixed and take to those better than trying to fool with the old "See 'N Say".

[madamesilverspurs]

19. I used to kid

about having to hire a 5-year-old to program my devices. Not kidding any more, I readily admit to having been born before chips were implanted.


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[Karadeniz]

17. Grandezza in piccolo!