[Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'

[Wilson Gray]

Is this a variant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5GSq4Hea6E


On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We've discussed the recently pervasive "Yeah, no" phenomenon.  Here's the
> next step. Addressing the California GOP Convention, Donald Trump announced
> that his delegate count had just "cracked the one-thousand number."
>
> He then asked rhetorically, "Which is great, right?"
>
> Responding to cheers and applause, he said, "No, it's great."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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