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

New witnesses.

xpost Put down behind a barn?

ok jesus cooper is boring. too many acronyms.

wish they would stretch the hearings out a little more, like just one hearing a day. it's a lot to absorb

Laura Cooper is correcting her testimony about when the Ukrainians first asked about the hold on Ukrainian security assistance. She had testified she first heard from Ukraine about it Sept. 5. Her staff subsequently showed her emails from July 25 (!) showing Ukraine was asking.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 20, 2019

cnn just went dark for me (via hulu and on their website), must have killed itself after hearing OMB for the 75th time.

amazed Nunes didn't yell MACLUNKEY and fall over dead in his chair today

I feel like I should be watching this next round, but wow, it's deadly dull.

xp don't worry, he will in the director's cut

the synopsis is good enough; ukraine knew aid was being withheld earlier than republicans were stating, way back in July.

but was that real July or fake July

it was actually Smarch

Smarching my damn head.

NUNES: Was it July or was it...you lie?

Emo Trump recites poem on White House lawn pic.twitter.com/rAD3xRjX4L

— Nick Lutsko (@NickLutsko) November 20, 2019

lol

now I'm going to have that in my head all week

cooper and hale really aren't having the republican's word parsing bullshit and look like they'd rather be anywhere else.

Rep. Maloney just utterly ended any friendly feelings Sondland and Democrats may have been sharing.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:24 PM

Maloney was right in that exchange I thought. Sondland has been very dishonest and evasive and Maloney was calling him out

Oh yeah, I'm not criticizing Maloney for that. I just thought it was funny how crestfallen Sondland was. He thought they were having a good time.

I'm really not sure I understand how Sondland could not be in possession of ANY documents relating to this - notes, emails, texts, phone conversations, dates, etc, what does that even mean?

NUnes at it yet again. He gets to do that several times a day then?

Sondland not exactly fit for the role anyway is he?

Nunes is deranged.

i hope someone compiles his idiotic speeches and puts them on some blog

I like angry Schiff

how is this still going on

I think it just ended

Story of my life

Yeah Nunes thing was his end statement . They're doing 2 hearings per day. Which means watching it live on this side of the Atlantic is going on pretty late.
Hope it is building to something for people though.
Caught it on CNN where one of the panel was talking about favourable polling for GOP In Wisconsin. do Hope that is going to fade as things are going on. BUt seems like there is no end of spin for certain people.

Didn't hear what mahoney asked after he asked Hale where he was from. Presumably wasn't do you like the Stooges or something.

Now speaking of Devin.

Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnas' lawyer told The Daily Beast. https://t.co/YCn7QWEwi7

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 21, 2019

god, put that wrinkled muppet away for good

Stevolende do you have access to c-span.org? it's the best way to view all of this imo

Not sure. Doesn't seem to be on my TV unless it's in obscure reaches of channels.

PBS has most of it on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeccLkvpt0&list=PLgawtcOBBjr_sIBQQYpNZxagChHjYSizH

huh, that didn't work ... try this: https://youtu.be/jPeccLkvpt0

xp I've only watched it on my laptop. It's great

why was sondland so smug? he contradicted his past testimony i thought

he's a very rich guy who just got away with crossing the world's 'most powerful man'

I'm guessing Sondland consulted with a decent lawyer who laid out the consequences of lying, as suffered by a half dozen Trump associates during the Mueller investigation, and on advice of counsel is now counting on two things to soften any possible charge he might receive for his earlier evasion/perjury -- that he is now being very helpful through his decision to (mostly) come clean with the Congress, and that he appears to be a patsy and a small fish who had little idea what was really up (an appearance he is playing up as hard as he can).

Yeah he seems (or wants to seem) like a good natured doofus who got in over his head in his paid-for position, but is now trying to help the Dems. I felt a momentary twinge of sympathy when Maloney jabbed him, but then remembered he’s a rich, lying Trump supporter.

he's not trying to help the democrats, he is just trying to weasel out of his dishonest testimony

he's a creep

he doesn't belong here

nobody tries to help Democrats, not even the Democrats

a guardian angel

it's the usual Republican M.O. - I am only fiercely loyal until my own hide is in trouble, and then I will sell you and my entire family out if that's what it takes.

be better if Schiff was making masked phone calls to these goons and saying the other person ratted on them and playing them against each other

idk if it's only republicans who are cowardly like that

it's obv not ONLY Republicans, but it is a staple trademark of them.

one thing Republicans do NOT do, especially Trump donors, is help the enemy UNLESS it is the only option to save their own hide. so there is no altruism beyond what Sondland is doing. he didn't grow a conscience.

so that means if people feel like the heat lamps are on them they will bail on trump, which is good

yep. just gotta keep the heat turned up.