“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

sigh, if only it were a real trial...

In view of his unceasing dear-Mr.-President obsequiousness the past four years, it's hard to listen to all the deification of Pence today. But I totally get it from a strategic point of view.

For Mother, he's a hero every single day

Lindsey regularly occupying the same level of loathsomeness as Mitch, Cruz and comer Hawley. way to go you little creep, you make me sad hell’s probably not real

chuck todd said the GOP has to choose between being the party of trump or the party of pence

so the party of a fascist or the party of a homophobic christian nationalist piece of shit

i mean, sounds right but that's not how he meant it

xxxp I hate Pence but didn't think it was deification, just footage confirming the danger he was in

Whatever happened to Reagan? Is he now chopped liver?

Has the homophobic astrologist nationalist wing lost all prospects?

going through all the republicans begging Trump to do something is good stuff, as is describing Trump's delight at the attack

Lindsey regularly occupying the same level of loathsomeness as Mitch, Cruz and comer Hawley. way to go you little creep, you make me sad hell’s probably not real

*Hawley, but sure bury Harley-Davidson

the prosecution has been extremely well done today

yeah, this was very well done indeed. it's good the republican party is being forced to sit with this -- with america watching this. whether it makes a difference, who knows

they are showing a guy in the mob literally reading a Trump tweet about Mike Pence to the crowd through a megaphone

today's presentation has been incredible, all of these clips we've never seen before, and it's still going on

and they really are doing a good job tying it directly to trump's words, including things he said DURING the riots

I like Castro

That's smart to use Fox footage like that, with a Fox reporter saying "They say they're doing it for Trump."

sorry off topic but is there a rule about demonstrative aids in Congress? (during regular, non-impeachment sessions obv). ie, why they (usually) always waving around dopey foam board posters instead of like, actually well-done PPT slides, animations, video clips etc

Roy Blunt, who is up for reelection in 2022, told me this when asked if the new video changed his mind about convicting Trump: "Well, you know, you have a summer where people all over the country are doing similar kinds of things.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 10, 2021

xp so guess you're not watching the coverage at all

xp so guess you're not watching the coverage at all

xpost I feel like those stupid posterboard things are pretty new, and mostly for the cameras. Not sure if there are any rules about them.

xp I see your point now

I actually think Trump's refusal to call in the National Guard is the most damning thing of all in this.

it's obvious they pulled out all the stops for this one but have no idea how hard it would be to do it regularly

Every time they play that clip of Trump saying "This is what happens when people are treated badly..." (however the wording goes), I get a flash of Sydney Blackmer in Rosemary's Baby: "He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples. He shall wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured!"

probably the reason why they don't do that more often is that the audience for a regular senate session is much smaller

There’s rarely even any senators there

hmm - mike lee's trying to get something that was attributed to him in the house manager's case stricken from the record

Leahy, meanwhile, is taking a quick catnap and is just resting his eyes, so wait a bit

lol

one of the things i assume bothers trump about this is that the prosecution's case uses multimedia ("never-before-seen footage" like it's a box set is the headline of the times right now) but his defense' wisely will not use multimedia (because all the video is very incriminating) and he thinks that means his defense is boring and will get bad ratings, which is the worst sin.

I don't even remember any quotes being attributed to Mike Lee.

he's drawing a lot of attention to what he said, so now i'm curious about what statement was attributed to Lee! lol

I don't even remember any quotes being attributed to Mike Lee.

same! when he stood up to say that, i had no idea what he was referring to

Fisticuffs coming soon among the gentle scullywags

having a paddywack on tv during primetime seems unlikely to help trump

Point of Clarification

What is the Question

*lots of confused looks left and right*

I think that they used a quote from Lee about the Tommy Tuberville phone call

my god Leahy just has no business doing this

yeah, Leahy just shit his pants

roberts would have been an improvement tbh

If this was Korea, they would have already cleared the benches and there would be blood everywhere

ok, so mike lee is making a big fuss at the end of the day that's all about the insurrection, and in the process, ends up digging up the almost-forgotten chestnut that on the day of the insurrection, both trump and rudy giuliani were trying to get a hold of tuberville to rig the election. cool

or not digging it up, I just mean, bringing even more attention to it? i don't even know anymore.

roberts would have been an improvement tbh

― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone)

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Roberts would rather have a root canal that oversee this shitshow

just strike it who gives a shit wasn't even a key point