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

I've been listening to a lot of these hearings, but I always always always have to turn it off a few rounds into member questions because the GOP questioning is so offensive to logic and coherence. It's not even a political reaction, it just makes my brain hurt.

As my final request, I would like to know who the relatively handsome middle aged members of Congress are. In the GOP.

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:24 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Time to have ol' Darryl Worley deliver a rousing version of 'Have You Forgotten?'

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This Dr. Wenstrup guy...

Hill seems to be having a "I've had enough" moment, albeit while calm and collected.

Turner was as bad as Jordan

Richard III!

re: Jordan's tough guy face

this facial expression

Richard III and A$AP Rocky -- truly a world-historic impeachment.

old lunch is canceled for reminding me of cruzbeard

AKA the Soupcatcher

Kevin McCarthy and Meadows et al seem to think anxiously saying "time to shut it down" over and over will play well

Rep. Stewart liked his own "impeachapalooza" line of yesterday that he used it again

His tight five needs work

SIOUX CITY CROONERS

So the message is everybody that has testified is a Never Trumper or didn't hear firsthand or Trump said "i want nothing" so... innocent?

"Time to shut it down"it will play well to those who agree, because they have full faith in Trump's "final word" yesterday, hang on every word from Hannity's lips, and believe in the veracity of whatever FOX News tells them (with the notable exception of the traitor Ken Starr).

maybe I'm naive but I can't imagine Dems covering for a Dem prez like this, against all reason, logic, and facts. plus it's a Prez a lot of them have to think is a moronic asshole!

Those people would agree if they showed up to the hearings naked and took a crap on a pizza box.

They ain't the people it needs to play with

Dems do govern themselves better than Pubs but many of them would still shill for their guy

holy shit where does Karl Malone hang out?

also I can't watch today but is gym jordan wearing a yellow tie?

if a democratic president did a 1/100th of what trump has done, they'd be forced to resign within a month

well, yeah

xp

holy shit where does Karl Malone hang out?

generally on ilx tbh! i didn't get alfred's reference to someone who wants to wrestle me, though. i know that karl malone - mean, i, karl malone - wrestled with dennis rodman back in the day. but - FACT CHECK, LIVE - rodman did not and does not serve as a GOP congressman

if Obama had only given them these javelins Trump would not have had to bride anyone! Thanks Obama

They ain't the people it needs to play with

if republican pols have learned anything in the past decade, it is the need to protect their right flank from tea party primary challenges. they don't see any other voters in their gerrymandered districts as worth fearing or pandering to.

for party of Law and Order they sure do tolerate (or even encourage) a great deal of corruption & other "rule bending" from their ppl, while the freewheeling godless Dems don't to anywhere near the same degree

Holmes eyeroll at Jordan was good but I want someone to full Benny Mardones eyeroll at the fucker

GOP is more the party of words that don't actually mean anything afaict.

Fucking MAGA
How does it work

This guy dunking on Nunes.

Nunes will just say the backboard moved

So somebody got to Starr since yesterday afternoon? Now he's saying "nowhere close" to impeachable offenses, despite his certainty yesterday?

Dec thread title BTW : "you can tell the Kardashians you tried"

Hurd can afford to be generous: he ain't running for reelection.

xpost Apparently the Starr quote was taken out of context? It might have been Starr paraphrasing a hypothetical Schiff.

So somebody got to Starr since yesterday afternoon? Now he's saying "nowhere close" to impeachable offenses, despite his certainty yesterday?

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:04 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Perhaps he's the other party in those photos Lindsey Graham keeps being reminded about.

sorry k3v and symsym I was mixing up the Intercept with Splinternews upthread.

xps

oops wrong thread

elsewhere

New FEC disclosures show a single large RNC payment of $94,800 to Books-a-Million in October, a few days before "Triggered" was released. An RNC spokesman confirmed that the expenditure was connected to their promotion of Don Trump Jr.'s book. pic.twitter.com/vsmmsgrYCp

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) November 21, 2019

This stunned me. A single golf outing by @realdonaldtrump in April 2017 appears to have brought Trump's club $28,800 in spending by the Secret Service agents who protect Trump.
Thanks to @propotp for obtaining these documents. https://t.co/TpzSeLcdqv

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 21, 2019

How do you spend $28,000 in one day at a golf club that doesnt have overnight rooms? We are trying to find out now.

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 21, 2019

Gift shop swag?

This was pretty stunning. Between Sondland and Hill, everyone is now in the barrel. Trump, Pence, Mulvaney, Pompeo, all of them.

This is a critical, critical portion of testimony. pic.twitter.com/aO7gJBG8Ia

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 21, 2019

what the fuck day of the week is Sundee

I know this is the last scheduled public hearing, but the GOP are right about one thing: they're going to impeach, so this is more or less all for show.

My very rural Illinois grandmother used to pronounce it pretty close to Sundee. Like a weird halfway point between DAY and DEE.

Because impeachment is essentially political in nature and requires public acceptance and understanding in order to work, this kind of "show" is a necessary and integral part of that process. Another word for it is "transparency'.

"Mansplaining"!

"all for show" is too damn dismissive and needed countering

‘Sundy’ is a very Midwest pronunciation but we are ILX and recoil at the thought of ‘sundae’.

xpost Oh, you don't have to tell me that (even though I said it). I know *why* they're doing it, there's just nothing that will change the outcome at this point.

lol today is the day of people reminding me of things I'd successfully blocked from my memory

first Amanda Palmer, now Tuomas sundae