US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

lmao that he was behind Women For Schultz, this is all an elaborate bit right?

xp lol frogbs

god, was jacob wohl the guy who tweeted all those times about the liberal hipsters whispering conspiratorially? if so that was the first that had ever heard of him. what a wild ride

Yup, that was him.

Gosh, remember the days when one couldn't expect to become famous/notorious entirely on the basis of being a gobsmackingly-useless choad? Remember that?

the supreme court has roundly rejected tweeting restraint

[john goodman bashing in a corvette with a baseball bat] SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMPETE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS https://t.co/cI51jpuF3A

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 26, 2019

also

UPDATE:

Me: Any response to those who say you’re witness tampering? @mattgaetz: I’m witness testing. We still are allowed to test the veracity and character of witnesses, I think.

Me: So you disagree with those who say you’re witness tampering?

Gaetz: Yes. https://t.co/aBRZAF314A

— Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox) February 26, 2019

House vote terminating emergency declaration passes

Any Republicans vote for it?

13

Not bad!

That seems bad to me, especially since so many more than that expressed “concerns” up until the last minute

More of that's been coming from the Senate rather than the House.

It's so clearly going to face a legal challenge, why in the world would the GOP suddenly stand up in principle now?

I think any defections are good because they achieve that elusive goal of bipartisanship, so treasured by the political class.

but on the other hand 182 republicans just voted to allow Trump to usurp power

it was pointless to expect any less from them

trump is the logical endpoint of the republican party’s utter choadiness. of course they’re going to fall in line

trump is the logical endpoint of the republican party’s utter choadiness. of course they’re going to fall in line

Worth saying twice

“I didnt know the marketplace of ideas had a sentencing phase.”

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/636-michael-cohens-congressional-t/3a1530b333230e775df5/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

And someone had a chat from his lawyer.

Speaker, I want to get the truth too. While it is important 2 create context around the testimony of liars like Michael Cohen, it was NOT my intent to threaten, as some believe I did. I’m deleting the tweet & I should have chosen words that better showed my intent. I’m sorry. https://t.co/Rdbw3sTQJD

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 27, 2019

I appreciate the pettiness re the Cohen stuff:

What struck me as I looked back and thought about that exchange between
Don Jr. and his father was, first, that Mr. Trump had frequently told me and
others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the
world. And also, that Don Jr. would never set up any meeting of any
significance alone – and certainly not without checking with his father.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/636-michael-cohens-congressional-t/3a1530b333230e775df5/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

― gbx, Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:29 AM (forty-eight minutes ago)

impeach him

one the one hand the Cohen testimony is oh god inject it directly into my veins

on the other, literally everything in it was 100% known previously, often for 35 years

Great timing: no-bus day at my school, so I'll be able to watch today. (They'll be a handful of students in my room for one period..."Teacher, teacher--what's a 'porn star'?")

Mr. Trump is an enigma. He is complicated, as am I. He has both good and bad, as do we all. But the bad far outweighs the good, and since taking office, he has become the worst version of himself. He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind. He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous. He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.

This is downright Talmudic.

He finished the conversation with the following comment. “You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.”
I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.

Wow, GOP assholes in full effect from the start.

Big surprise--one side's going to do everything they can to gum up the proceedings today.

yeah the R's on this comittee are a murderer's row of scum

Who's the guy to the immediate right of Cummings? I hate him already.

Jim Jordan. ex wrestling coach sex abuse deniar.

I hope the Democrats don't talk more than absolutely necessary. As much of today as possible should come from Cohen.

wow Cummings not having any of this

hoooly shit Jim Jordan is an asshole

there are not enough punches in the world for Jim Jordan's face

he's a coward which begets assholism.

The Republicans are going to disrupt so much today, that's why the Democrats need to clear all available time for Cohen to talk.

jim jordan is all about protecting terrible men, so

then again that's pretty much his party's MO too

three mentions of the Clintons already

Does he think that anyone knows about any of these names he's dropping. Clearly this is only meaningful to the most blinkered tin hat wearer.

who is this crazy fuck

all the GOP are acting like court appointed public defenders for Trump.

Oh, Jesus, haul this guy out of there.

i am jealous of all of ya'll who don't know who jim jordan is.

Cohen's not mincing his words

Riveting.