It's the subtle, yet effective, use of CAPS that really opened my eyes.
So,
Thanks for that linguistic dick slap to the face. My cognitive reasoning really needed that.
A bunch of books pop up? How many?
Thanks but… hard pass.
I've been thinking about this. NBC would only run with this if it was a dilute-the-waters smokescreen. Make the sale of national security seem like a sophisticated Chinese attack on the nation rather than the wholesale treason that it was.