What was your favorite Patrick Reusse moment?

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Gophers1992 said:
Right, I guess I'm not connecting the dots on how an explanation of a misinterpreted tweet turned into a rant against Musk/Trump/MAGA
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I take his explanation at face value for bailing on Twitter/X. Patrick was ready to be done with the forum anyway, regardless of the misinterpreted Tweet, due to Musk (& the "dipwads" that respond).

That's my understanding via post #35 in this thread.
 

Ope3 said:
I take his explanation at face value for bailing on Twitter/X. Patrick was ready to be done with the forum anyway, regardless of the misinterpreted Tweet, due to Musk (& the "dipwads" that respond).

That's my understanding via post #35 in this thread.
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Lol. A poorly worded innocuous tweet (should have just apologized for such), followed up by two inflammatory tweets posted by a friend/co-worker, flaming Trump, Elon, Reagan, republicans; quickly leaving the platform, sure.
 


I didn't read the Tweet as remotely racist but quickly understood the angle that the trolls took with it in his comments. The trolls of course didn't think it was racist either but 1. Took advantage of the snowflake/over-sensitivity of the current age to harangue the old man; and 2. Turned the tables on the old man who uses 2/3rds of his tweets to phish for snowflakes, including Gopher fans.

Frankly, no response or explanation was necessary and no doubt the issue would have died on the vine. It wasn't a racist tweet and a reasonable person wouldn't think otherwise. I suspect Pat's primary employer, the overly sensitive and uber-woke strib, applied pressure to Pat to respond in some way. He, of course, a man of no magnamity, humility or humbleness couldn't respond gracefully and instead went full on hate, intolerance and TDS on the way out.

Getting sick of "dipwads" is a ridiculous excuse, even in part - he goes fishing for those responses.
 

swede2 said:
Getting sick of "dipwads" is a ridiculous excuse, even in part - he goes fishing for those responses.
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His "dipwads" comment was specifically to those that were commenting on his columns without reading them, not his tweets themselves.

swede2 said:
Frankly, no response or explanation was necessary and no doubt the issue would have died on the vine. It wasn't a racist tweet and a reasonable person wouldn't think otherwise. I suspect Pat's primary employer, the overly sensitive and uber-woke strib, applied pressure to Pat to respond in some way. He, of course, a man of no magnamity, humility or humbleness couldn't respond gracefully and instead went full on hate, intolerance and TDS on the way out.
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I doubt that the Strib was in favor of Patrick deleting his Twitter/X account entirely, as it also drove traffic to their site as well.
 


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