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

LOL

i'm pretty sure trump just tweeted out the "new" transcript (the congratulatory call to Zelensky back in April, which has nothing to do with anything. amazingly, without reading it, i believe him their april conversation didn't contain any obvious crimes. WOW, you got us trump!

the fact that he thinks this is a damning counterpoint and timed its release for the middle of this testimony is just so fucking pathetic

also fucking pathetic: republicans are so dumb they have to bring in the golden boy jim jordan to be the brains of the operation. fucking lol.

by the way, san francisco is a "dangerous & disgusting Slum", according to another trump tweet from this morning

why? it's pelosi's district

even as we create the dystopic future we will have to live in, predicting it and then walking into it with eyes wide open, these first few hearings have demonstrated the value of impeaching the president even though republicans will acquit him. they look like fucking SCUM. they are scum. they are clearly wrong. anyone who hasn't gone off the rails yet in this country will see that, if they care to look. jordan and nunes and their ilk can rot in the gutter

mornin'

Folks are figuring out how to play this game. https://t.co/GBuHex3ODT

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 15, 2019

xpost So you're saying the likes of Jordan and Nunes are the San Francisco of congress?

whyyyy i oughtta

*this not throw wtf

can't wait to see the reasoning behind senate republicans finding that trump not is guilty of Witness Intimidation. i guess it will come down to either 1) "he didn't intimidate anyone. no he didn't. they weren't intimidated by the president of the united states repeatedly condemning them to a rabid audience of millions of dumbasses who believe everything he says, while constantly saying that all of his enemies are part of a Deep State conspiracy.", or 2) "it's not witness intimidation when the president does it."

Why is he tweeting a conversation from April

― treeship

because if he can show he had a normal conversation in April, it means he did not have an illegal conversation in September.

that's literally what they're doing. i would have demolished this argument in fucking first grade on the playground (and then the bullies would have demolished me)

3) "that's just the way he talks, he's a tough guy from New York"

Top headline at Fox News right now. Just beyond parody. pic.twitter.com/nB9emZMhIK

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 15, 2019

love how every political issue is just a big fucking game to these people

otoh that's a great Hollies song

what is trump lawyer rudy giuliani's net worth

xpost She would not have seen that tweet had Schiff not read it, ergo, clearly Schiff was trying to intimidate her.

Rudy gets paid in drained deep fryer fat.

no FOX home page is complete without a Clinton reference.

BTW, good self-discovery by the WaPo. Headline of the first Post Watergate hearing story, May 18, 1973: "The First Day of Watergate: Not Exactly High Drama." The more things change ...

Jim Jordan's constant anger makes him incomprehensible most of the time, so if you replace what he says with Boomhauer dialogue, there really isn't much difference. pic.twitter.com/5hmOkRFVFt

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) November 14, 2019

I just saw something claiming that Trump stopped tweeting as soon as he got called out for intimidation.

Nah, he got so angry he dropped his phone in the toilet.

Then tried to flush it to destroy the evidence.

He has now broken the White House toilet

no, he didn't stop tweeting. he tweeted out the perfect transcripts from the totally unrelated April call, and also 12 minutes ago he made the important point that there are tons of vacancies in his administration because he wants it that way (for efficiency??? all of the federal employees who know what it's like to work in an administration of Acting and Vacant leadership positions are loling their fucking brains out right now) but ALSO because it's the democrats' fault.

I think it's more than likely that some of Trump's anger stems from the fact that he literally has no idea who any of these people are or what they do, he doesn't even know their names, and to the extent that he hurt them or fought them or kneecapped them or whatever it's because his moron accomplices pushed him to do so and he, like a good puppet, did just that. So some dummy tells him to call the ambassador a bad hombre or whatever, he does so, immediately forgets about it like a goldfish forgetting it just ate. And then months go by and this thing he forgot comes up again, only now there is a name and a face and a backstory, so he goes nuts, because he was lead astray but now is in the midst of some shit and instinctively flails and fights back, because he can't be wrong.

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

oh noes

Live video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZL2ogi2h4

If Roger Stone is guilty, then I ask, who among us is innocent?!

Also, lol:

"The US Criminal Code is not in the Constitution" is a novel, if profoundly stupid, argument. https://t.co/u5RY4n1Nif

— *Palpatine voice* UNLIMITED DADPUNS🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 15, 2019

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

can we all just have a moment of pure, unadulterated joy plz

I guess racketeering is back on the table too

Roger Stone right now:https://t.co/ubxUvYB7vj

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 15, 2019

It's supposed to show:

"Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

somewhere a nixon tattoo is weeping

Stone's just been found guilty on all counts.

can we all just have a moment of pure, unadulterated joy plz

otm

Prosecution asking that he go straight to jail for violating the gag order.

That was fast, not going straight to jail.

Stone's Nixon tattoos being stripped, Reuters reports.

Being noted right now that one conviction was for witness tampering/intimidation.

Grandpa Simpson for prison 2019

When does Alex Jones go to jail? I assume Rudy will get his shot soon enough.

Alex Jones is due back in Narnia soon

Gymnastics is fun!

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a New York Republican who has been one of the House GOP’s point men on defending President Trump during the impeachment inquiry, said the President's tweets criticizing Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony did not constitute witness intimidation.

“No, I think it's about the President wanting to ensure that the entire story is getting out there for the American public. Ambassador Yovanovitch wouldn't have even known about the tweet if not for Chairman Schiff choosing to use a partial rendition of the tweet," he said.
Zeldin called it "wrong" for Chairman Schiff to read and ask Yovanovitch to respond to part of the President's tweet. "If you're going to ask Ambassador Yovanovitch to respond to a tweet that she has not read, then allow her to read the entire tweet and then ask her a question," he said

the part that schiff read out loud:

"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors."

the other half of the tweet that schiff didn't read:

"....They call it “serving at the pleasure of the President.” The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First! With all of that, however, I have done FAR more for Ukraine than O."

why didn't Yovanovitch get to hear that second part!?!?!? why didn't she get a chance to respond to that second part, which was so damning!?!?!??!

jfc

i am going to have a fucking heart attack. can we exit this nightmare

Why is the Republican's lawyer so bad? He seems oddly confused.

His clients are usually cats

This line of questioning isn't doing them any favors, just giving her an opportunity to reiterate and clarify her points.

So far he had her confirm that Amb. Taylor (who was a string witness against the president 2 days ago) is a very well respected person, and then had an extended line of questioning confirming that yes, there was indeed a concerted effort to smear and get rid of her. It seems like his line is she should've pushed back harder.