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

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xpost She would not have seen that tweet had Schiff not read it, ergo, clearly Schiff was trying to intimidate her.

Rudy gets paid in drained deep fryer fat.

no FOX home page is complete without a Clinton reference.

BTW, good self-discovery by the WaPo. Headline of the first Post Watergate hearing story, May 18, 1973: "The First Day of Watergate: Not Exactly High Drama." The more things change ...

Jim Jordan's constant anger makes him incomprehensible most of the time, so if you replace what he says with Boomhauer dialogue, there really isn't much difference. pic.twitter.com/5hmOkRFVFt

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) November 14, 2019

I just saw something claiming that Trump stopped tweeting as soon as he got called out for intimidation.

Nah, he got so angry he dropped his phone in the toilet.

Then tried to flush it to destroy the evidence.

He has now broken the White House toilet

no, he didn't stop tweeting. he tweeted out the perfect transcripts from the totally unrelated April call, and also 12 minutes ago he made the important point that there are tons of vacancies in his administration because he wants it that way (for efficiency??? all of the federal employees who know what it's like to work in an administration of Acting and Vacant leadership positions are loling their fucking brains out right now) but ALSO because it's the democrats' fault.

I think it's more than likely that some of Trump's anger stems from the fact that he literally has no idea who any of these people are or what they do, he doesn't even know their names, and to the extent that he hurt them or fought them or kneecapped them or whatever it's because his moron accomplices pushed him to do so and he, like a good puppet, did just that. So some dummy tells him to call the ambassador a bad hombre or whatever, he does so, immediately forgets about it like a goldfish forgetting it just ate. And then months go by and this thing he forgot comes up again, only now there is a name and a face and a backstory, so he goes nuts, because he was lead astray but now is in the midst of some shit and instinctively flails and fights back, because he can't be wrong.

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

oh noes

Live video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZL2ogi2h4

If Roger Stone is guilty, then I ask, who among us is innocent?!

Also, lol:

"The US Criminal Code is not in the Constitution" is a novel, if profoundly stupid, argument. https://t.co/u5RY4n1Nif

— *Palpatine voice* UNLIMITED DADPUNS🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 15, 2019

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

can we all just have a moment of pure, unadulterated joy plz

I guess racketeering is back on the table too

Roger Stone right now:https://t.co/ubxUvYB7vj

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 15, 2019

It's supposed to show:

"Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

somewhere a nixon tattoo is weeping

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

can we all just have a moment of pure, unadulterated joy plz

otm

Prosecution asking that he go straight to jail for violating the gag order.

That was fast, not going straight to jail.

Stone's Nixon tattoos being stripped, Reuters reports.

Being noted right now that one conviction was for witness tampering/intimidation.

Grandpa Simpson for prison 2019

When does Alex Jones go to jail? I assume Rudy will get his shot soon enough.

Alex Jones is due back in Narnia soon

Gymnastics is fun!

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a New York Republican who has been one of the House GOP’s point men on defending President Trump during the impeachment inquiry, said the President's tweets criticizing Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony did not constitute witness intimidation.

“No, I think it's about the President wanting to ensure that the entire story is getting out there for the American public. Ambassador Yovanovitch wouldn't have even known about the tweet if not for Chairman Schiff choosing to use a partial rendition of the tweet," he said.
Zeldin called it "wrong" for Chairman Schiff to read and ask Yovanovitch to respond to part of the President's tweet. "If you're going to ask Ambassador Yovanovitch to respond to a tweet that she has not read, then allow her to read the entire tweet and then ask her a question," he said

the part that schiff read out loud:

"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors."

the other half of the tweet that schiff didn't read:

"....They call it “serving at the pleasure of the President.” The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First! With all of that, however, I have done FAR more for Ukraine than O."

why didn't Yovanovitch get to hear that second part!?!?!? why didn't she get a chance to respond to that second part, which was so damning!?!?!??!

jfc

i am going to have a fucking heart attack. can we exit this nightmare

Why is the Republican's lawyer so bad? He seems oddly confused.

His clients are usually cats

This line of questioning isn't doing them any favors, just giving her an opportunity to reiterate and clarify her points.

So far he had her confirm that Amb. Taylor (who was a string witness against the president 2 days ago) is a very well respected person, and then had an extended line of questioning confirming that yes, there was indeed a concerted effort to smear and get rid of her. It seems like his line is she should've pushed back harder.

I'm honestly surprised Trump could refrain from coining a nickname like "Yoyo Yovanovitch" as he tweeted his important "entire story."

too close to sounding like hip-hop

BTW Roger Stone is going to prison: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/roger-stone-trial-guilty.html

Roger Stone Going To Prison Dance Party

look, GOP. time to stop this ridiculous line of questioning from someone who knows about the law, and get appoint lindsey graham to a special detail to the house of representatives so he can take control of the system and lecture everyone about integrity in politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJe2tOS90E

Yovanivitch looks like such a normal person -- plainspoken and terrified -- that I can't believe this will play well for the GOP.

how many Republican elected officials are prepared each day to completely sell out their constituencies and abase themselves at the temple of repeating whatever self-serving bullshit Trump's greasy thumbs blurted out during the morning's rage-warm-up.

wouldn't they be selling out their constituencies if they *didn't* do that?

― Camille Paglia is on my partner's NextDoor (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 15 November 2019 10:51 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

er no???

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 13:17 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, am I missing something- you mean by their constituencies, Republican voters + donors, right? Well they're overwhelmingly in the tank for Trump. That's pretty much all Republican means now. Ergo, abasement before Trump by elected Republicans whatever else it might be (spoiler, it's bad), isn't selling out.

"Sometimes that happens on social media."

Lololol

dude's response "i'm shocked that would happen on social media"...I couldn't tell if he was joking, or if he was actually shocked. because the guy is a fucking souless weird mannequin.

is this guy the republican's best lawyer? because he doesn't seem to be doing them any favors.

except going along with trump IS selling out their constituents cf the 'impeachment is a kitchen table issue' article i pasted. whether or not they realise it, whether or not they voted for him. is all i mean. trump's policies only benefit a very small number of people, even if you're just looking at his supporters. i mean, i know they're jackasses but it's important to keep in mind imo

Yovanivitch looks like such a normal person -- plainspoken and terrified -- that I can't believe this will play well for the GOP.

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christine blasey ford

worked out pretty well for the GOP