Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

digging into foreign interference gains the GOP little or nothing, politically speaking, and because governing the country is essentially hard work with meager political payback, unmasking and soft-on-terror accusations look the most promising to today's GOP.

Have they gotten around to asking Yates why she's at a hearing instead of in the kitchen making delicious baked goods for her husband?

No one who self-identifies as a republican can die soon or violently enough to suit me at this point.

Cornyn now grilling Yates for not upholding the Muslim ban

― frogbs, Monday, May 8, 2017 3:53 PM (three minutes ago)

yeah that was some bullshit grandstanding

Ted Cruz, right back to leaks.

So she's being reprimanded for believing in and trying to support the constitution?
Was hoping her appearance was going to set things straighter but now looks like bent rules.

cruz now ugh

cruz is looking especially gruesome today

ted cruz is a fucking scumbag

fucking piece of shit with the EO crap

yates just sonned him on the statutes

so cool nothing at all coming from this except a bunch of idiotic memes & talking points about leaks

Cruz has...gained a bit of weight since the primaries last year.

you guys are following this was closer than 99.9% of the population. the headline is "flynn was compromised and the WH knew".

...okay?

XPS He discovered feelings and now eats them

Yates owns so much, she's really killing this imo

she is unflappable

that said I should have known that the GOP was gonna make this about unmasking and Hillary's emails, because of course they would

yeah, but many people thought Trump beat Hillary in the debates, so it's mostly showtime for senators

Clapper just said this is not about leaks it's about Russian influence on elections

yeah that was pretty explicit. leaks are "ancilliary issues" and interference is "transcendent"

do they seriously *have* to answer every question? can't they just respond with a simple "how is that germane to the issue we're here to discuss?"

also, clapper sounds just like Nick Offerman.

gotta say it was nice to see Cruz get humiliated once more

Sasse asking some good questions here

Cornyn and Cruz just left the hearing, lolololol

where does it fucking say this hearing is about the goddamn executive orders

senator kennedy from louisiana is a gigantic dumbass and acts like he's worried that everyone will realize it at the same time

"is this an AH PRIORI consideration?"

he just said "wax too metaphysical" twice in the same minute

must suck to have to be deferential to these idiots

is this just a pure character assassination play by the GOP right now? does everyone in that room know how guilty Trump is or what?

i feel like i need to gnash myself against the rocks for a few minutes before returning back to society, who voted for him on purpose

he reminds me of mcconnell

"uh...you can't leak unclassified information"

feel like Clapper is going to get up and slap this jackass

the "unclassified information would not be leaking" moment was pretty awesome, also kind of stunning how disingenuous the questioning is, basically trying to turn anybody who ever talks to the press about anything into being a scurrilous "leaker"

I read Karl's previous-previous post as "ass too metaphysical"

I felt like that cognitive hiccup needed to be documented

Prince wrote "Metaphysical Ass" about Kennedy.

i don't mean to interrupt the watch party, but ICYMI

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/328857/gop-congressman-raul-labrador-nobody-dies-because-they-dont-have-access-to-health-care/

to be perfectly franken

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can't believe this is the first mention of Manafort

i don't mean to interrupt the watch party, but ICYMI

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/328857/gop-congressman-raul-labrador-nobody-dies-because-they-dont-have-access-to-health-care/

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 8, 2017

I saw the clip this morning. Labrador and Mo Brooks are competing for Most Honest Pustule.

lol there's no way either of them can answer these questions from Franken but I'm glad someone is actually getting to the issue at hand for once

that was some serious questifying from Franken there. at least he stayed on topic tho.

Franken sounds like Master Shake lately.

the entire GOP outside of Graham just left, stay classy guys

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just want to note for the record this stunning bit of misattribution at The Hill:

In a prosecutorial line of questions from Sen. Ted Kennedy (R-Mass.), Yates was once again asked to defend her conduct surrounding the travel ban.

lol