Damn it, I find the coverage of the Senate just as they end it for the day.....
Anything worth mentioning about it other than Senators walking out, food and fidget spinners?
Damn it, I find the coverage of the Senate just as they end it for the day.....
Anything worth mentioning about it other than Senators walking out, food and fidget spinners?
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Sure, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee was also reading a book and Tweeting during the whole thing.
One thing of interest to note, however, is that several "at risk" GOP Senators aren't helping their approval ratings any:
https://twitter.com/Politidope/statu...644089857?s=20
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This is legitimately some of the most disgusting shit I've heard about our elected officials in years.
What is the point of all this - A 233 year old Constitution with 27 Amendments, a vast government that directly employs millions of people and indirectly employs tens of millions of people, the worlds most powerful military, a $4 trillion a year budget, the entire Capitol Complex, and most importantly of all, our supposedly cherished democratic principles, if the people we elect to do a job can't actually stand doing their jobs.
It should be a solemn affair. Instead, I half expect one of them to unbuckle their belt and put their hand in their pants like some old man on the couch.
I'm reminded of Bane's words from "the Dark Knight Rises... "Peace has cost you your strength... victory has defeated you". These people are able to act like this because the stakes are so low. Because nothing matters in what they do. They're small people - men and women - coasting through on the great achievements of their great predecessors. The Republicans can indulge Trump and even Democrats can not take this seriously enough, because they don't see any risk whatsoever. Because it's a game and nothing matters. In the end, the budget gets signed, federal services continue to 330 million people, the US military defends us, and our neighbors are weak and our enemies are distant and also fairly weak compared to us.
What horrific rot. I never imagined that on this topic of all, they would basically act like they're students in detention, rather than the so-called world's greatest deliberative body.
Most of them will also win-reelection next year.
When I say "Trump is symptomatic, this is exactly what I mean". If Americans had any actual respect for their democratic inheritance - and I honestly don't think they do anymore besides the freedom to fuck who they want and the freedom to own a gun - they would drum out of the Senate every asshole who took this less than completely seriously, regardless of ideology. If Senators don't want to do their constitutional duties, get people who will.
The GOP warns itself that calling Bolton will immediately cause Trump to clamp down on executive privilege so hard you'd assume he was sitting on it. This battle would drag out the impeachment trial.
Therefore, this train of thought goes, they shouldn't call Bolton to testify. Just let Trump win and hide evidence.
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'Take her out': Recording appears to capture Trump at private dinner saying he wants Ukraine ambassador fired
Interesting ...
So Trump doesn't know Parnas, but was having an intimate dinner with him discussion Ukraine. Sure ...... LOLTrump has said repeatedly he does not know Parnas, a Soviet-born American who has emerged as a wild card in Trump’s impeachment trial, especially in the days since Trump was impeached.
"Get rid of her!" is what the voice that appears to be President Trump’s is heard saying. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."
On the recording, it appears the two Giuliani associates are telling President Trump that the U.S. ambassador has been bad-mouthing him, which leads directly to the apparent remarks by the President. The recording was made by Fruman, according to sources familiar with the tape. The White House did not respond to an ABC News request for comment.
During the conversation, several of the participants can be heard laughing with the president. At another point, the recording appears to capture Trump praising his new choice of secretary of state, saying emphatically: “[Mike] Pompeo is the best.” But the most striking moment comes when Parnas and the president discuss the dismissal of his ambassador to Ukraine.
Parnas appears to say: "The biggest problem there, I think where we need to start is we gotta get rid of the ambassador. She's still left over from the Clinton administration," Parnas can be heard telling Trump. "She's basically walking around telling everybody 'Wait, he's gonna get impeached, just wait," he said. (Yovanovitch actually had served in the State Department since the Reagan administration.)
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/reco...ry?id=68506437
Uhh...'Take her out': Recording appears to capture Trump at private dinner saying he wants Ukraine ambassador fired
This seems pretty huge.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...f-hunter-biden
Graham is still giving up the game. He doesn't even want Hunter Biden to be subpoenad, because that would just extend the trial. He wants the trial done with, and then he wants to talk to Hunter Biden.But Graham said he’s going to oppose subpoenas for them because “this needs to end,” referring to the impeachment trial.
Because let's be real - their calls for Hunter to testify were always bullshit and had nothing to do with this impeachment case. Ever. It was all just a empty threat to try to get Democrats to try not to call for witnesses.
The dishonesty with which Republicans have engaged in this impeachment case is astounding, and what's more astounding is how brazenly open they are about it. And it doesn't matter.
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