US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

They'll know a lynching when they see one

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump claims that Obama could've been impeached "for the guns for whatever, where guns went all over the place and people got killed with the guns." <a href="https://t.co/CCeuuYoLeN";>pic.twitter.com/CCeuuYoLeN</a></p>— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="

Trump claims that Obama could've been impeached "for the guns for whatever, where guns went all over the place and people got killed with the guns." pic.twitter.com/CCeuuYoLeN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2019

Hm guess thats not the way to post a tweet

Where Guns went all over the place and people got killed with the Guns is a great Vin Diesel flick

However, guns are also good and they save lives, nothing wrong with a guns in the right hands. I just want everyone to follow the law

he's talking about Fast and Furious, which was in fact a fucking awful botched program. It wouldn't have gotten Obama impeached though, clearly, because he wasn't impeached over it.

lol the guns going all over the place is part of the job

Sen. Lindsey Graham backs Trump on calling the House impeachment process a “lynching.” Graham says: “This is a lynching in every sense.”

— Alex Bolton (@alexanderbolton) October 22, 2019

guess the GOP found their 2020 message

GOP Sen. Cruz: “obviously a word with significant historical freight. The connotation the president is carrying forward is a political mob seeking an outcome regardless of facts. And that I think is an objectively true description of what is happening in the House right now” https://t.co/UolbZZ28pF

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) October 22, 2019

Go back to your penis pump, TED.

interesting times in Texas
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/466869-texas-house-speaker-to-quit-amid-taping-scandal

really Huckleberry? *Every* sense?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a staunch Trump ally who has also been critical of the Syria decision, backed Trump for calling impeachment a "lynching," telling reporters Tuesday: "This is a lynching in every sense.”

in "EVERY" sense, Lindsey?
"OBJECTIVELY," Ted?
"FUCK YOU," guys?

xp, clearly not alone in that take; i hope they both get sucked down in the quagmire and their kompromat comes out anyway

its particularly infuriating b/c the reality is the Dems waited pretty much as long as they could before impeaching, the Ukraine stuff was so blatantly illegal that it basically forced their hand

we could only wish in every sense was true

"Here's my hand. Now force it!"

Cannot see tiny hand

a good chunk of twitter seems to be using the moment to provide some historical perspective on lynching, so silver lining i suppose

should have stuck with witchhunt

a political mob seeking an outcome regardless of facts.

Incredible how un-selfaware all these ppl are

"I know you are but what am I" is basically the party motto now.

Incredible how un-selfaware all these ppl are

sadder galaxy brain: they are very aware

i'm sure Grifter or an ally will bring Clarence Thomas into this in a few hours

"the President isn't getting due process!"

"Hey provide us these people and documents so we can--"

"No"

XP Newt brought it up on The View (which he was guest co-hosting) this morning.

yes, should've put my chips on that vermin

https://www.mediamatters.org/view/view-foxs-newt-gingrich-says-lynching-isnt-automatically-only-black-experience

Lotsa fun details emerging:

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/22/william-taylor-ukraine-testimony-trump-054259

Pfft.

BREAKING: Anonymous author of NYT Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all bookhttps://t.co/wd4Z6728ha

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 22, 2019

"It is I, friend to Pierre Delecto!"

#basta

Taylor's full statement is here.

https://i.imgur.com/6oaREa1.png

wow, john bolton the warmongering asshole...relatively ethical actor in this shitshow? wtf

That detail's been public for a bit but yeah.

John Bolton, welcome to the resistance

Taylor's statement pretty much confirms the exact thing the president is trying to deny

will it really matter is the question

https://i.imgur.com/qFnOCiK.png

Mr. Danyliuk: it seems you have stepped in a Pynchon novel, Mr. Taylor

I mean the crazy thing about this is that Ukraine is just one of dozens and dozens of countries receiving millions in U.S. assistance

Does anyone really *not* think Trump is running his protection racket on them, too?

depends what you mean by "matter" - will GOP congress start to desert him? no

xp

Taylor's statement pretty much confirms the exact thing the president is trying to deny. will it really matter is the question

Matter in what sense? Because asshole is going to get impeached. The sub-question is, will impeachment matter? I don't know!

xxp He only has one Rudy to go around

my guess is that at this point Pelosi is just trying to make sure she has an airtight case that will give enough cover to swing district Dems to vote to impeach. This looks extremely likely, at this point.

The Senate is a different game.

if impeachment were decided by a neutral jury rather than by the Senate, you'd just have to drop Taylor's testimony and then rest

again: impeachment is not decided by the senate

xp but yes

fine, removal (which is deciding whether impeachment was warranted)

his opening statement is very well crafted, and genuinely insightful in certain ways. like this:

https://imgur.com/a/8ZYp9Nw

the trump stooge (sondland) parroting back trump's own alibis/explanations for his corruption: he's a businessman, and these people owe him. which fits with his longtime strategy of taking something hostage (ukraine military aid in this case) and then threatening to sue unless he extracts something that he wants. he's been a conman since he was born - he inherited his bullshit from his fuckface father and got dealt in with $millions when he was 3

https://i.imgur.com/f4GhsUf.png

that is pretty damning

The only defense I can imagine the GOP mustering*, in the House or Senate, is "Yes, this is bad, but does it warrant impeachment or removal? No." But of course that then begs the question, what punishment *does* it warrant? "Let the voters decide"?

*My imagination does not take into account their imagination.