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

That's it! He does a "Hey lady..." thing.

Yeah, it's totally Professor Frink.

"the House managers used selectively edited videos", said moments before Trump's lawyers showing actual James O'Keefe style videos

Do the House managers get to speak one more time or is this it

lol, I just saw them playing clips of Warren saying "fight" in the least threatening manner possible.

"bring in the calvary" is some next level denial. Nobody has ever said that without it being a typo.

This is comical at this point. A detailed history of Democrats using the word "fight."

I'm waiting for a clip of George McGovern saying "I watched the Ali-Frazier FIGHT the other night."

I'm impressed by the sheer number of times democrats uttered the word "fight" that didn't immediately result in a violent riot.

is elizabeth warren officially gonna be barred from office for inciting a riot with multiple deaths what is happening

This is going to be ridiculed even more than their first-day presentation.

this is some ridiculous fucking shit right here

they have got to be embarrassed by this video

by they i mean this idiotic defense team

everyone knew this comparison was coming

Have they played Hillary's Fight Song?

I mean this feels like writing a book report and saying you liked the book "very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very,very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very ,very, very much" to get past the word count requirement

I knew it was coming, but I thought there'd be at least a measure of artful legerdemain.

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like is this the sequel to DJ Shadow's Entroducing

i hope the entire legal team defense is a meme by 3 pm ET

omg that dipshit actually said "partisan coup d'etat"

throw the fucker out and piss on him

Castor's gonna freestyle!

do they not see the irony of showing that Nadler clip?

like yes you stupid fuckers impeached Clinton for lying about a blowjob

my mother is turning it off cuz she's sick of it lol

The irony of making an issue of Democrats hating Trump (true) seems lost on them too--they need to show the goodwill that Obama and Clinton got.

Irony is dead, hell, language itself is dead to these people. Words have no meaning, context doesn't exist.

still can't believe they played the secret unedited full video that we already saw yesterday and expected we'd all forget we saw the video yesterday and misremember that the Dems edited it.

Why aren't they playing "Bad Boys" fro COPS?

I hope some metal band mired in the '80s uses Schumer's "release the whirlwind" for an album title.

It was like he lapsed into Hank Azaria-doing-Jerry Lewis for a second.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, February 12, 2021 12:43 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

holy crap this is otm.

I thought it was each side presents and that's it, but the Democrats get a rebuttal, evidently. They're not going to let all this stand--they're going to FIGHT.

The only whataboutism I've ever loved.

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

Republicans lecturing on the perils of "political hate"...

They just showed the exact same video they played a couple hours ago

Possibly the most incredible statement of this presentation, that the Democrats spent no time trying to legally tie the president to what happened on Jan. 6. "Legally" is the weasel word, because I'm pretty sure the Democrats spent hours tying him to what happened on Jan. 6.

I love that they call out selective editing immediate after showing a video that stitched together a bunch of unrelated out of context clips

it did feel like a clip episode from seinfeld or something

I think the intent of "legally" was to imply that unless they could show Trump engaged in a physical act of insurrection at the Capitol, he wasn't culpable for those acts. Except incitement to riot has a legal definition and it is not the same thing as rioting.

"you all have no evidence, we know cos our client destroyed it all"

meanwhile White House suspended one of Psaki's deputies for threatening another reporter. suspension is one week - think they might as well just let him go.

i really don't want ANY remnants of press-threatening behavior left over.

what if the reporter was Guy Smiley?

The way Trump says "walk down...TO THE CAPITOL" is so weird.

It was like he lapsed into Hank Azaria-doing-Jerry Lewis for a second.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, February 12, 2021 11:43 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is one of the things that James Austin Johnson's impression gets right.

lol the argument that many of the insurrectionists weren't even able to hear Trump's speech. like everyone's not walking around with HD live streaming devices.

The dramatic music is *chef's kiss*

Is this guy lost in his own notes?

It's grimly fascinating that the current line of argument that Trump's speech on that specific day didn't incite the mob... because the mob was already there at the Capitol with a thirst for blood. Um, who got them that way? Who invited them saying "will be wild"?

In a just world, the defense being "these Trump-loving fuckers were already cray-cray, they didn't need additional encouragement" would be... not a great defense?

Of course it will work, but it's still disgusting.

does he think reading out trump's stupid call is a good thing?

They distorted the true conversation, by releasing it in full. Crafty.