As Rand Paul announced his presidential candidacy, D.C. was hit by a set of power outages.
Washington, D.C.: White House and the State Department Hit by Power Outages: Reports http://t.co/wHqMeQQ9AY via @NBCNews
— ChrisHerter's BowTie (@ColdWarBowTie) April 7, 2015
BREAKING NEWS: White House, Capital, and other sites affected by wide spread power outages across D.C. @AP
— Andrew S. Ginsburg (@GinsburgJobs) April 7, 2015
Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/585496956899819520
Rand Paul already shutting down large parts of the federal government:http://t.co/317fD5sCmP #StandWithRand
— Peter McCaffrey (@peteremcc) April 7, 2015
Rand Paul's viral campaign of knocking the power out in DC Is best thing since the Dark Knight's treasure hunt during SD Comic Con.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 7, 2015
But one thing’s for sure: The power problems resulted in a glorious little Twitter gem.
Behold:
UPDATE: The Dept of Energy has lost power. CNN
— Breaking News Feed (@pzf) April 7, 2015
Ha!
The most Federal Government tweet ever. https://t.co/bV6PqBDIbv
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 7, 2015
Seriously. If that isn’t the perfect D.C. tweet, we don’t know what is.
https://twitter.com/jdude988/status/585493620821733380
https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/585493669521817601
@PzFeed how's that for irony?
— Jeff (@illyahkuryahkin) April 7, 2015
? The irony. RT @PzFeed: UPDATE: The Dept of Energy has lost power. CNN
— brittany. (@NyBrit12) April 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/MrTallStuff/status/585494108686446592
https://twitter.com/FzProbst/status/585495513975365632
The Department of Energy has lost power, in a move suspected to be the work of their rival Department of Irony.
— Mr. Alben (@JewkeSkywalker) April 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/585495386170781698
It doesn’t get any better than that.
I was going to write something satirical today, but then the Dept. of Energy lost power. I think I'll hold off until reality settles down.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) April 7, 2015
The Dept Of Energy lost power and if you dont think that is the funniest thing ever get out of my face
— jojo (@cowboyrilakkuma) April 7, 2015
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