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

That asshole Chip Roy voted against backpay for workers affected by the shutdown because it was the dems fault. fuck off with that tugboating.

Dripping Springs is no Marble Falls or Cut'N'Shoot.

Haha, my neck of the woods m/l

NEW — Matt Gaetz is under investigation by the Florida State Bar over his Michael Cohen threat.

With @lachlan https://t.co/0sbrERDUPL

— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 27, 2019

:)

lol

brutal self-own.

*bleach dribbles out the corner of Gaetz’s mouth*

no way in hell i'm watching this but since it's such a fucking farce anyway one of the Ds should ask about hannity. or has that already happened?

i'm just catching up on a lot of stuff because of work this morning, but did anyone point this out from cohen's prepared remarks:

I am providing the Committee today with several documents. These include:

• A copy of a check Mr. Trump wrote from his personal bank account – after he became president - to reimburse me for the hush money payments I made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and prevent damage to his campaign;

• Copies of financial statements for 2011 – 2013 that he gave to such institutions as Deutsche Bank;

• A copy of an article with Mr. Trump’s handwriting on it that reported on the auction of a portrait of himself – he arranged for the bidder ahead of time and then reimbursed the bidder from the account of his non-profit charitable foundation, with the picture now hanging in one of his country clubs; and

• Copies of letters I wrote at Mr. Trump’s direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his grades or SAT scores

not a big deal (other than potential fraud because of nonprofit payment) but wow, that is so incredibly, humiliatingly pathetic

is it more or less incredibly and humiliatingly pathetic than Don Jr. signing payoff checks for his Dad's porn stars

what a fucking joke, his whole family. and they're all incredibly wealthy. the american dream.

also that he threatened all of his former schools. god, how many times has he said "I went to Wharton - where I did very well - great school"

i'm sure UPenn was very happy not to release his grades to anyone. it would be embarrassing to admit that they gave the dumbest man in the entire country a passing grade

Funny (?) to hear Cohen testify about Trump ordering him to preemptively threaten his alma mater over his grades, since I came across this a couple years ago... SI's factchecking has long been excellent, but somehow this line made it into a 1984 piece about a certain USFL owner: pic.twitter.com/totelfq0kj

— Jack Dickey (@jackdickey) February 27, 2019

Ivy League schools know no embarrassment about give passing grades to the sons of the very wealthy. It is both a simple business transaction and a rich tradition.

They probably took his word for it. Normal people don’t lie flamboyantly about easily disprovable facts.

per the NYTs article from late last year the only reasons trump was ever publicly successful was because of his dad and his ease with lying about everything.

Fair to say this Cohen stuff is 100% overshadowing this North Korea bullshit (which was already sort of downgraded by a sort of boy who cried wolf vibe)?

I know Mark Meadows' communications director follows me on here and hey man, GREAT job on those volume exercises. SO loud. If you were the one who was like, "no, MORE shouting" then buddy, you were heard.

— Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) February 27, 2019

I'm still baffled by this Prague thing

my #1 fear with the NK thing is that trump will make a catastrophically bad "deal" in an attempt to win the news cycle

Home sick watching this, worried it will make me sicker

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:43 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is me as well, but having the opportunity to watch this today is the first time I've felt thankful for the virus ravaging my body. #blessed

I'm humbled by the number of GOP-ers on the committee who've clearly sustained some sort of traumatic brain injury but who are soldiering on for the good of their country. Like some of them can't even string a coherent sentence together but they don't let it stop them from getting up there and gumming up the works. #blessed

Gomez going in

wtf Meadows some fucking dork tweeted and it's part of the record now?

AOC time

so Meadows is the GOP House's new Gowdy? God, this is amateur hour.

lol 1 minute in and this is already the most fruitful line of questioning

She's all business, no nonsense

ahahahah "you'd have to ask Matthew Calamari" how is this real

Strongly tempted to change my last name to Calamari

"Talk to James Biscotti."

AOC lay groundwork for tax subpoenas. Impressive. She didn't grandstand, like even some Dems.

nice

(thanks all for the updates)

god it's 6:51 AM in North Korea, I hope Trump has been up all night

Seems worth noting that, from a point not too distant, Cohen was among the most overtly-repellant of Trump's retinue and someone who I'd never have predicted giving a performance like today's.

kinda sounds like they need to talk with this Allen Weiselberg fella

oh shit they just got Tony Pepperoni and Larry Linguini

Oh shit, Tlaib going in on her colleagues.

fuck off dude

i have black friends lol

ohhhhh shiiiiiit lol

Nice, they gave her a chance to repeat it.

just want to note that for those of us who can't watch it live, the past several posts present a really odd picture of what's happening

lol he's not racist he just does racist things

I need to know if Meadows has any black family members.

HAha! He totally went that route.

I love this, please give Meadows more rope.

Mark Meadows pulling the Lindsay Graham act

lol racist people love to say they don't see color

racist people love to bring up the non-white family members that they don't bark at.