US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

I've been in meetings all morning, is there a good summary being compiled somewhere (none offense to y'all).

Trump Did It

Was anyone around for the Watergate hearings?

I was. I even watched a fair amount of them, since I was a student, not working at a job. Yes, they could get a bit tedious at times, but the novelty of watching how Congress really operated, plus the historic context of the first impeachment proceedings in a century, made it interesting most of the time - for anyone inclined to be interested in such stuff. Most people got their version greatly condensed on the evening news - at a time when the FCC meant something and the FOX News 24-hour propagandistic approach did not yet exist.

In fact, it was the Watergate reportage in general that galvanized the right wing to emasculate the FCC, eliminate the Fairness Doctrine, and constantly whip PBS and major network news as rotten with "liberal bias". With the election of Reagan, clearing a path for conservatives to control the airwaves and cable was among their first priorities.

jesus I walked away for 10 minutes and now wat the fuck is going on. Is this Jordan?

re: Barr's gun announcement, to anyone with half a brain "special vigor" is just a nice way of saying "selective enforcement".

Shouty guy who doesn't own a jacket = Jordan.

Jordan took too many pep pills this morning

Wish he'd take a cyanide

Ratcliffe is all "lemme get my sound bite! Heeyyyuhh no stop ruining my soundbiteuhhh!! Gosh, I worked super hard on it and everything"

^^That was sweet.

Lol

I liked Nunes’ “mother of all conspiracy theories” comment. Dude that theory is substantiated directly in the transcript released by the WH. Shut up.

The Democrats are like the desperate ex girlfriend/boyfriend that you want absolutely nothing to do with!

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 13, 2019

stop linking that shit, jfc

Eric would probably have firsthand experience in that department. Not saying on which end of it.

He has the look of a man with some real-world experience with violating restraining orders.

meanwhile

Whereby US and Turkey Presidents sit down in White House, defend their military presence in Syria and then claim its oil.

“We are keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil,” Trump: pic.twitter.com/vBqIgPztok

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) November 13, 2019

The same guy who tweeted 11 or so times in past 15 hours about stuff on Fox News says he's too busy to watch impeachment hearings

I assume this is because GOP Senators grasp that fucking up the Dem primaries is a higher priority

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to the Senate Republican leadership, says there are not enough votes in the Senate to immediately dismiss any articles of impeachment passed by the House against President Trump.

Republicans have discussed the possibility of quickly dismissing charges against Trump, which would just require 51 votes. But Cornyn said that would be a difficult hurdle for the GOP, which holds 53 seats in the Senate.

“There’s some people talking about trying to stop the bill, dismiss charges basically as soon as they get over here. I think that’s not going to happen. That would require 51 votes,” Cornyn told reporters Wednesday.

“I think it would be hard to find 51 votes to cut the case off before the evidence is presented,” he added.

Cornyn also said it would be better to have a trial in the Senate if the House impeaches Trump.

The veteran GOP senator said it would be “the better course would be to let each side have their say and then have the Senate vote and see if they can meet the two-thirds threshold” to convict the president on impeachment articles.

Is Erdogan going to have his shitty bodyguards beat people up again?

probably

#1 sign of a devastating cross is this face on the witness: pic.twitter.com/P5g99aopfv

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) November 13, 2019

A rictus of sheer terror

i'm gonna go fucking crazy if we start analyzing screenshots again

i've listened to this on the radio, but there is a screenshot out there of one of the aides stifling a sneeze, along with a headline article on daily caller about how the democratic deep state can't control it's discomfort in spreading the ukraine hoax

i haven't seen this screenshot, and i don't read the daily caller, but i know they're there

trump and melania can't stand being around each other!!!

*cut to shot of melania being rich as fuck and not caring about anything, and even wearing an ugly shirt that says as much on the back of it in ragged lettering ripped off from the work of a non-rich person*

Thanks KM, I'm sick of it too

We are casting runes, it is what u do in the endtimes

jim jordan cuts to the cold truth, stunning the entire hearing room:

"the democrats are going to bring in a parade of witnesses, and they'll all say something like 'so and so said such and such to so so, and we recommend impeachment"

lol Welch with the awesome zing

It's frustrating that the Republican platform's bias against education as elitist has also applied to the politicians.

^^^ I'm on a time delay, so I just got this now. A+. xp

Rep. Jordan says Congress won’t be able to question the one “who started it all,” referring to the whistleblower.

Rep. Welch: "I'd be glad to have the person who started it all to come in and testify. President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there." pic.twitter.com/nE8Exwn3CG

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 13, 2019

lol that's good

FAKE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS HAVE BEGUN!

Bob,

The Democrats are playing a sick game.

The Impeachment Scam hearings begin today! This is a complete Fake Hearing (trial) to interview Never Trumpers and a Pelosi-Schiff SCAM against the Republican Party and me.

It’s obvious they hate me, but more importantly, they HATE YOU. The Democrats know they can’t win in 2020, so they want to rip the power from your hands by ERASING your VOTE, ERASING your VOICE, and ERASING your FUTURE!

BOTTOM LINE: THIS WITCH HUNT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PROCEED.

The Radical Left and Lamestream Media are just trying to make it hard for TRUE AMERICANS, including YOUR PRESIDENT, to win in 2020. We can’t let them get away with this.

It’s time to make a statement. I want to do something so EPIC that even the FAKE NEWS media won’t be able to ignore us while these baseless Witch Hunt Trials go on.

I WANT TO RAISE 3 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

These next 24 hours are SO CRITICAL, that I’ve authorized an EMERGENCY DOUBLE-MATCH on ALL DONATIONS.

Please contribute $5 in the NEXT 24 HOURS to stand with me against the Fake Impeachment Hoax and your gift will automatically be DOUBLE-MATCHED. >>

END THE FAKE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

Together, we are going to show the degenerate Trump Haters that they cannot break us and that AMERICA will no longer tolerate their CORRUPT actions.

I can’t do this alone, Bob. I’m counting on my BEST supporters, like you, to stand with me now when it matters most. Don’t let me down, the Nation is counting on you.

I’ve requested a list of every patriot who steps up with a critical contribution during the Fake Impeachment Hoax. I expect to see your name on that list.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT 24 HOURS and your gift will be DOUBLED!

So much Erasure

Lol fake impeachment hoax

huge televangelist vibes coming off that email

Fake Hearing (trial)

I will use the funds, to buy a NEW CAR! I will use this VERY NICE NEW CAR to drive to the BEACH.

ALL of the money will be used to purchase the CAR and maybe even THE GAS to take me to THE BEACH.

President Bakker

it's true, impeachment is not really happening, House Dem caucus are all crisis actors

So much Erasure

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gwiInUNf_s

Asked if he's a Never Trumper, as Trump keeps alleging, Taylor says, "No sir." Asked if he's a Never Trumper, Kent says he's a career professional who carries out the policies of both Democratic and Republican presidents.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 13, 2019

would love it one of these guys actually had the Republicans define their Fox-News-pudding-brained conspiracy jargon whenever they spout it. you could probably spin out the entire 45 minutes just on getting the term nailed down, especially if the GOP rep makes an appeal to the President's authority. "President Trump has said that I'm a... I'm sorry, could I hear the phrase in context?" 28 minutes of the rep trying to read a transcript of alzheimerian word salad while applying gravitas ensue, break for lunch.

pluralities aren't good enough, tbh

A plurality of voters in key battleground states support impeaching and removing President Trump from office, according to new data from Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC.

Priorities USA surveyed 2,500 voters in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — four states that went for Trump in 2016 — and found that 49 percent support impeachment and removal, compared to 45 percent who oppose it.

The worst margins for Trump are in Florida, where 51 percent of respondents support impeachment and 45 oppose it. In Michigan, 50 percent support impeachment and removal compared to 45 percent who are opposed.

The margins are closer in Wisconsin, at 48 percent-45 percent in support of impeachment and removal, and in Pennsylvania, where voters are split 47 percent-47 percent.

The data finds that voters increasingly view “corruption” as a reason to replace Trump: fifty-three percent of respondents cited “corruption” as a reason Trump should not get a second term, matching health care as the top problem spot for the president.

The same guy who tweeted 11 or so times in past 15 hours about stuff on Fox News says he's too busy to watch impeachment hearings

Dale: After saying he didn't watch, Trump said, “I see they’re using lawyers that are television lawyers. They took some guys off television." Democrats' committee counsel Daniel Goldman spent 10 years as a federal prosecutor in New York. He has also been a NBC/MSNBC legal analyst.

After President Trump urges Erdogan to call on “a friendly reporter from Turkey”, Lindsey Graham turns to me and says, “There aren’t any others left.” pic.twitter.com/VgEpYyr2PR

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) November 13, 2019

i mean you could also go with incompetent, immoral, crass, opportunistic, unqualified, unknowledgeable, unrepresentative of the country or its beliefs, questionably stable both emotionally and mentally, unintelligible, embarrassing, unsophisticated, prone to fits of rage and unconsidered decision making, nepotistic in his hiring practices, cruel, sociopathic, narcissistic, functionally illiterate, easily compromised, technologically and historically ignorant, unethical, sexually abusive or physically repulsive but sure "corruption" works too.

oh hey, also "lost the vote" comes to mind

The same guy who tweeted 11 or so times in past 15 hours about stuff on Fox News says he's too busy to watch impeachment hearings

Dale: After saying he didn't watch, Trump said, “I see they’re using lawyers that are television lawyers. They took some guys off television." Democrats' committee counsel Daniel Goldman spent 10 years as a federal prosecutor in New York. He has also been a NBC/MSNBC legal analyst.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic)

[GIF of Judge Judy shaking her head]