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

<3 S3na, old family friend

Yeah, the deadline for the ERA was originally set for 1979, and then Congress extended the deadline to 1982. Theoretically, Congress could vote again to extend the deadline, but it's unclear whether the original votes to ratify still count, or whether the amendment would need to be reintroduced.

xpost Yes! (I only really know him but I was at their wedding a long time ago)

First public hearings announced:

House Democrats will begin convening public impeachment hearings next week, they announced on Wednesday, initially calling three marquee witnesses to begin making a case for President Trump’s impeachment in public.

The hearings will kick off on Wednesday, with testimony from William B. Taylor Jr., the top American envoy in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a top State Department official, said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. On Friday, Mr. Schiff’s committee will hear from Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former American ambassador to Ukraine, he said.

Also worth reiterating:

The sessions will not look like traditional congressional hearings, where Democratic and Republican lawmakers alternate asking questions in five-minute blocks and witnesses can easily avoid answering unfavorable questions.

The House voted along party lines last week to approve rules for an impeachment process for which there are few precedents. Those rules include allowing the top Democrat and Republican on the committee to designate questioning to trained staff and for each side to have up to 45 minutes at a time.

Witnesses under Republican questioning will spend their 45 minutes rhapsodizing on the pleasures of drinking beer, while being complimented furiously for their service to the nation. After a time, the House member and witness will weep copiously about how this out-of-control process has ruined their previously idyllic family life.

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this photo is really begging for some photoshopping

why do we always come here
i guess we'll never know

will the GOP totally fuck up in Alabama yet again? maybe

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to announce plans to run for his former Senate seat before Friday, multiple sources told The Hill.

A source who is in regular contact with Sessions said Wednesday there is “99 percent certainty he will announce today or tomorrow.”

A separate source familiar with Sessions’s plans told The Hill that the former Alabama senator “will come out forcefully in support of [President] Trump’s agenda while denouncing Democrats’ impeachment efforts. And steps have already begun to hire campaign staff.”

The deadline to file for the Senate race is Friday.

Rick Dearborn, a former top aide to Sessions, declined to comment on whether his former boss would announce a bid in the coming days.

Three other sources familiar with the plans said the announcement would be made Thursday.

Jumping into the Alabama race would put a national focus on Sessions’s rocky relationship with Trump.

Sessions held the Senate seat from 1997 until 2017, when he was tapped to serve as Trump’s first attorney general. But he quickly fell out of favor with the president after recusing himself from oversight of the Russia probe, eventually leaving the administration in November 2018, a day after the midterm elections, at Trump’s request.

Despite his turbulent relationship with Trump, Sessions has remained popular in Alabama, a state Trump won with 62 percent of the vote in 2016.

Sessions would be joining a crowded primary field that includes Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, businessman Stanley Adair, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and Roy Moore, the 2017 GOP nominee who lost to Sen. Doug Jones (D) in the special election to fill Sessions’s former seat.

The primary is slated for March 3.

Some Republicans, including his potential opponents, are not keen on Sessions launching a bid to return to the Senate.

“I think it would be a mistake for him and really bad for the state given the president’s extreme displeasure with him. Alabama is very pro-Trump,” Byrne told The Hill on Tuesday.

Sessions also does not have the blessing of key Republicans. Since kicking the tires on a potential run, Sessions has yet to speak with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign arm, according to a Senate Republican operative.

Sessions also has not spoken to Trump or Vice President Pence directly, although the White House has communicated to Sessions's inner circle that they would view his candidacy “extremely unfavorably,” according to the GOP operative.

"hmmm, the pedophile or the traitor... so hard to decide"

GOP in a single tweet

Bevin presser just now. He uses GOP cheating in North Carolina and Russian meddling in 2016 to justify his call for a recount.

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) November 6, 2019

the White House... would view his candidacy “extremely unfavorably"

Once you're down on the list of "persons showing insufficient fealty" Trump will kick you in the nuts every chance he gets until the end of time. Do it, Jeff!

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Getting good here.

Lindsay Graham is now speculating that Gordon Sondland (who donated $1M to Trumps inauguration) is in cahoots with Democrats pic.twitter.com/jjGzmc57uj

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) November 7, 2019

It's weird how Democrats are powerful enough to be puppetmasters but we can't rig elections well enough to take the Senate

it's also weird how sondland, in cahoots with democrats, managed to convince trump back in 2016 to be obsessed with the idea that ukraine hacked the DNC server, to the point of convincing trump to direct others to use back-channel diplomacy to demand that ukraine at least make a show of "investigating" biden in exchange for a few hundred million dollars. sondland must be very smart and convincing, in addition to being able to see the future

also, lol at the idea of sondland donating $1 million to trump for the privilege of eating his shit in the inner circle. fucking pathetic man

BREAKING: Footage of Lindsey Graham kompromat finally obtained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3vHOEm-r4

Hmmm.

SCOOP: Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying the president broke no laws in call with Ukrainian leader. He's mentioned in recent conversations that Barr wouldn't do it. https://t.co/pB6PkhhUuh w/ @jdawsey1 @CarolLeonnig

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) November 7, 2019

also, lol at the idea of sondland donating $1 million to trump for the privilege of eating his shit in the inner circle.

The deepest of deep states.

Rep. Mark Meadows objecting to MSNBC’s @LACaldwellDC saying that Republicans are struggling to defend the president pic.twitter.com/nkp5Z3gXEq

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 6, 2019

that is just about the most strugglingest soundbite I can remember seeing

Are we sure it's not the janitor?

1. Exclusive: I've obtained passages from the book by 'Anonymous', the author of the NYT Op-ed

In the book, Anonymous claims that senior officials had no doubt that Pence would support invoking the 25th amendment if the majority of the cabinet agreed. https://t.co/MoTiIaQnuM

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 7, 2019

Pence was thinking that "some have greatness thrust upon them".

Idk, sounds kinda gay

still can't get over how sonderland gets to 'revise his testimony'

these people are all snakes

Sondland used the Mayella Ewell approach

If you stare at this long enough, you can hear them ask you if you ‘swing’ https://t.co/YzivL7DiLe

— h. jon benjamin (@HJBenjamin) November 6, 2019

He was in Journey lol

Oh fuck, that's why there's a bunch of Jonathan Cain stuff on HJB's twtter rn!

Third rate Vegas magician and his wife who's going to prison for some kind of MLM tainted supplement scheme

don't stop

They remind me of the lizard people from V, the 80's alien invasion miniseries.

I can totally see them eating gerbils.

he reminds me of one of the neighbors from Rosemary's Baby

"I'm forever yours, Satan...faithfully"

kinda looks like he mighta done a bid for carjacking a 9 year old kid on the Grand Prix ride at Disney World

trump retweeted this earlier

The Alabama SGA warns groups: Protest Trump during the LSU game and risk losing your reserved seating. https://t.co/8WYaFAtmwK pic.twitter.com/6l5VUisRyN

— AL.com (@aldotcom) November 6, 2019

brb just grabbing a ticket and a bullhorn

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i'm not sure what we're doing, but here's tony levin

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See, Tony Levin is a fine musician and seems like a genial dude. I kinda thought we were going for "creepy and smarmy and probably evil," not just "looks weird and/or menacing and has stupid facial hair."

Mea culpa if I misunderstood the brief

Tony Levin's facial hair is not stupid

this is the most pissed I've ever been on this thread

Guys...this is what they want us to do. They want us divided!!!!1

Rep. Jim Jordan tells reporters that Republicans plan to request that the House Intelligence Committee bring in the whistleblower to testify.

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) November 7, 2019

but everything the whistleblower claimed has been proven many times over. they are literally trying to get this person killed

i didn't even know what was going on, i'm sorry

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