The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

from the annals of good faith

Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued there is no basis for impeachment, especially after Trump pledged to release an unredacted transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said, “You can’t tell me they’re talking about impeachment when the president is cooperating with them 100 percent to release these things.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/462890-senate-gop-vows-to-quash-impeachment-articles

They can't impeach, he said he maybe might possibly cooperate-ish

President 100% Cooperation. When you think Trump, you think cooperation.

Just wondering how Space Force is coming along

— rosanne cash (@rosannecash) September 24, 2019

genuine lol

The Nixon impeachment proceedings were all very solemn and serious... This time it's a freak show.

see also: American culture across the board

Old & busted: Deep Throat

New hotness: Deep State

Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued there is no basis for impeachment, especially after Trump pledged to release an unredacted transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The stupidity of this position is that, transcript and whistleblower testimony aside, Trump has already admitted what he did.

"He's being transparent!"

I see no reason why we should prosecute him for hacking up and eating his neighbor when he willingly gave us copies of the home movie he made documenting his actions. Case closed AFAIC.

fwiw Rudy was known to talk like this to reporters fairly often as mayor

Rudy Giuliani attacks Fox guest: "I should sue you for libel... Shut up moron! Shut up! Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about, idiot!" pic.twitter.com/zeXMzGMjDI

— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) September 25, 2019

man Yoo concern trolling in the pages of the NYT about impeachment doing long term damage to the Office is just,,,, the most 2019 thing ever

Yes, my leg is broken, but isn't it possible that in attempting to mend the fracture we run the risk of reducing my femur to a fine powder?

Can we all put our heads together to come up with a quick n' pithy dismissal to the increasing number of 'arguments' posed in obvious bad faith? Is 'fuck you' enough to get the point across?

“fuck yoo”

Yooooooo the line for this judiciary hearing is DEEP. Just walked past on my way to lobby for something else and I’m gonna have to go back just to witness this.

I can't read the article but NYT has a headline that Trump told Ukraine leader to work with Barr

Yeah, the transcript may be heavily modified or doctored, but still is so doing extremely bad for Trump and team.

Transcript released: Transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian president shows him offering U.S. assistance for Biden investigation

lol it's better than I'd hoped:

Mr. Trump specifically asked his Ukrainian counterpart to “do us a favor” by looking into an unsubstantiated theory pushed by Mr. Giuliani holding that Ukrainians had some role in the emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee.

“I would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of that,” Mr. Trump said on the call, also referencing Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel who investigated Russia’s election sabotage. “Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it, if that’s possible.”

and emoluments violation!

But until Wednesday, lawmakers had not yet seen the transcript, which documents the 30-minute call and includes banter about Mr. Zelensky staying at the Trump Hotel

and dick sizes!

and the two men comparing which of their airplanes is better.

Lolololol

loool he thought this would help? this guys is so fucking stupid

Can they recall this transcript and do a new one? I think maybe their big black sharpie might be busted.

Holy shit, the guy is so predictably myopic and stupid he asks for help finding Clinton's email server! This guy is like if Jacob Wohl were president.

Except that Wohl finally got some comeuppance.

yeah but don't worry!

I've read the transcript. That's it? No, I actually don't think it is that bad. Seriously. I was expecting a lot more.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 25, 2019

uh oh

Several Senate Republicans I've spoken with in the last hour are stunned that the WH is releasing this transcript. They do not think it helps the president's cause. And they expect today's Senate GOP lunch to be quite the get-together.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) September 25, 2019

And this isn't even a formal transcript, so if this is what they released ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

It's ok everyone, I just learned that crimes are good

lol inevitably media is calling this a "transcript." File under: dossier, collusion, etc., as words that muddy the debate.

the president is a globalist when it comes to doing crimes

Waiting for the day, surely not far away, when Trump starts attacking himself on Twitter.

that's funky as hell doc casino, never heard!

Oh by the way, Bill Barr lied to Congress

It's also big that two intelligence officials apparently flagged this shit for potential criminal inquiry, and (I believe just last week) DoJ declined to prosecute. Hmm, I wonder why Barr declined to do so?

The biggest clue that the Ukraine conversation has been condensed is on the first page: It's a 30 min convo that's been conveyed in just five pages. pic.twitter.com/Ge2WDMJzEv

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) September 25, 2019

lmao this is exactly what Don Jr. did 2 years ago but somehow even worse

and he thinks the Hillary server is in Ukraine lol this guy is the best

We live in the world of Who Knows? but this guy is so stupid and crooked and incompetent he puts Nixon to shame.

The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor...

just reached the end of pg 3 and i can't stop laughing

A lot of people.

that Honey Drippers record is among the most sampled ever

Will the Democrats apologize after seeing what was said on the call with the Ukrainian President? They should, a perfect call - got them by surprise!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2019

Was just thinking of how many conversations between Trump and foreign leaders probably went just like this one.

OK, next month's thread has to have "got them by surprise" in the title.

Grifter gets a 10.0 in the Phone Call Olympics

What is this brain disease where you are so fundamentally incapable of not trolling that you ultimately troll the everliving fuck out of even yourself? Do I have to wait for the DSM-VI to find out?

pic.twitter.com/KOjhjB8OEL

— MB (@mbd1006) September 25, 2019