The Strange World of Sen. Mike Lee’s Twitter Feed
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business, serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the sumup point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.combe.combe. Hey, everybody. Sam Stein, managing out at the Bullwork, Joe and Bob McAll, Joe Perticokewn, |
| 0:24.5 | who is author of Press Pass, great newsletter, all about Capitol Hill and fashion. Two of Joe's favorite |
| 0:30.7 | things. We're going to be talking about his third favorite thing, Mike Lee's Twitter feed. Joe has been an |
| 0:36.2 | obsessive follower of based Mike Lee for as long as I've been |
| 0:41.9 | here. We've written a couple times about it. Today's newsletters about it. There was a flurry of |
| 0:49.9 | Labor Day weekend activity from the Twitter feed that I think is categorically deranged at certain |
| 0:58.3 | points. |
| 0:58.8 | But Joe, why don't you explain what's going on here? |
| 1:01.5 | Exactly how often did Mike Lee tweet this weekend if we did the tally? |
| 1:06.3 | So his like, first of all, I hope you had a good Labor Day weekend. |
| 1:11.8 | Thank you. I hope you did too. What'd you do? |
| 1:14.8 | Don't, who no one wants to hear about that? We want to hear about Mike Lee's trip. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, I was, you know, I was wondering because most people, you know, go to barbecues or they get |
| 1:23.7 | out of town or, you know, they go to the beach for one last time. |
| 1:30.0 | That's not what Mike Lee did. |
| 1:31.1 | Mike Lee did what he knows best, which was tweet. |
| 1:34.7 | So he did about 70, more than 70 tweets, retweets, retweets of himself. |
| 1:41.7 | And then he replied well over 200 times to various accounts, like any normal person |
| 1:48.7 | would on a holiday weekend that you normally spend with your family. |
| 1:51.7 | The tweets are a lot, 70s a lot. And it's not like, I wouldn't say it's totally extraordinary, |
| 1:58.5 | but it's an unhealthy amount of tweeting, even for me. |
| 2:01.6 | But the 250 plus replies suggest a problem. |
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