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Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!

FizFashizzle posted:

CNN is streaming it for free without a subscription.

What is the point of my CNN+ subscription if they just give away the good stuff for free?

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hanales
Nov 3, 2013
And if you're really desperate for content cspan has...umm a stakeout live feed of comeys home.


No poo poo.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?429711-1/stakeout-feed-james-comeys-home&live

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?429648-1/washington-journal-06082017&live


Will be broadcasting free too

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005
Let's send him a pizza! :haw:

hanales
Nov 3, 2013

CyberPingu posted:

Starts at 10AM ET, which to all EU people watching is 2pm GMT...So ~25 mins away

Add an hour it's 836 eastern rn

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

hanales posted:

Add an hour it's 836 eastern rn

So google lied to me :S

Caufman
May 7, 2007

hanales posted:

And if you're really desperate for content cspan has...umm a stakeout live feed of comeys home.


No poo poo.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?429711-1/stakeout-feed-james-comeys-home&live

How much does CSPAN have to pay their employees to get them to set up stalker cams on a public person?

Asking for the sec def.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


This video feed and the reporters' conversation in the background is more entertaining than Comey's testimony will probably be.

edit: LOL it looks like they've been live since about 7:30am?

Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Jun 8, 2017

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
i can't imagine james comey, an hour and twenty minutes prior to testifying before congress with information that may lead to the impeachment of a president, is still at home eating a bowl of cream of wheat and reading the loving paper

if he comes out of this house with his tie draped around his neck and his shoes untied, rushing into his sedan and speeding off 15 minutes before the hearing is supposed to start, someone in this creeper van better loving start playing the loving saved by the bell theme song

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

mynnna posted:

So is the refusal by various IC officials who testified yesterday to talk about whether Trump asked them to intervene in an open session a bigger deal than I think it is? To me, the notion that a conversation even happened could be classified seems odd, but aside from that wanting to take that to a closed session seems reasonable. Yet people are flipping out as though they refused, full stop. What gives?
More people were upset by the other two excuses given with equal or greater frequency- Mueller and quasi privilege.

It's clear that Mueller hasn't told these folks to clam up, but they're using his presence to refuse to disclose information to the Senate. It's unclear if refusing disclosure would be justified even had Mueller told them to STFU, since the senate is not required to stop working just because there is a special counsel.

Quasi privilege is what seemed to really be getting the committee worked up, and overlaps a bit with classification. White House is allowed to claim executive privilege and essentially stonewall discussion-but like the 5th, it has to be asserted. Splitting the hairs of "I was never directed" while refusing to answer if they were asked would arguably waive privilege and seems difficult to justify from a classification standpoint.

It was good on Wyden to actually pressure their asses on reauth though. Frankly the lies, horseshit, and stonewalling on that was more flagrant than on Trump.

Also, strongly dislike that she's coming up in 2020 chat, but Harris had the perfect reaction to Burr deciding she was the one who needed to be reprimanded for badgering the nonresponsive fucks
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikalapaula/status/872529567143079937

hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008
Yeah considering the statement has been made and a lot of questions will be vaguely answered or not answered at all for various reasons im predicting a giant case of blue balls.

skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


Kilroy posted:

I'll vote in Democratic primaries for the leftist, but I don't expect I'll vote for Democrats in the general unless it's for the same leftist. There just isn't any point helping the Centrists cement their power over the party.

How priveledged do you have to be to say 'if Democrats don't give me everything I want, I'm cool with Trump, McConnel, and Ryan running unrestricted for another two years'?

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
"CODE ZACH REPEAT, CODE ZACH!"

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


skylined! posted:

i can't imagine james comey, an hour and twenty minutes prior to testifying before congress with information that may lead to the impeachment of a president, is still at home eating a bowl of cream of wheat and reading the loving paper

if he comes out of this house with his tie draped around his neck and his shoes untied, rushing into his sedan and speeding off 15 minutes before the hearing is supposed to start, someone in this creeper van better loving start playing the loving saved by the bell theme song
The off-camera reporters said if they left now, they would arrive at 9:23am so they're giving him 7 more minutes.

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
if the press follows comey paparazzi-style to this hearing and he tries to elude and evade right into a brick wall a la princess di i am going to figuratively murder some news orgs

Riatsala
Nov 20, 2013

All Princesses are Tyrants

skylined! posted:

i can't imagine james comey, an hour and twenty minutes prior to testifying before congress with information that may lead to the impeachment of a president, is still at home eating a bowl of cream of wheat and reading the loving paper

if he comes out of this house with his tie draped around his neck and his shoes untied, rushing into his sedan and speeding off 15 minutes before the hearing is supposed to start, someone in this creeper van better loving start playing the loving saved by the bell theme song

I've found that one of the best ways to keep your nerves in check before a big event is to consciously end the planning and preparation the day before and go about the morning of in a ordinary fashion. Not saying that's what Comey is doing, but it's not a bad way of approaching things.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Wait, they don't even know if Comey is at his house? He might be at a hotel downtown?

"People do hate us." Did... CSPAN outsource this to some paparazzos?

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

hitchensgoespop posted:

Yeah considering the statement has been made and a lot of questions will be vaguely answered or not answered at all for various reasons im predicting a giant case of blue balls.

Depends on your expectations. He won't answer about if a crime was committed or if Trump was obstructing in a legal sense. If lucky, we may get him editorializing like he did on But Her Emails.

Will be interested to see if he elaborates on #ThatThing, and if he adds any insight to the leaks about the IC reaching out to quash on Flynn. Also Piss Tape. Anyone want to guess who is the first to ask him to explain the Russian Hooked bit?

funeral home DJ
Apr 21, 2003


Pillbug

Paracaidas posted:

Also Piss Tape. Anyone want to guess who is the first to ask him to explain the Russian Hooked bit?

Whoever does so is a national hero, I'll tell you that much.

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

man, you gotta have the patience of a saint to work at CSPAN and host their program, what with all the crazies calling in.

aware of dog
Nov 14, 2016
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/872671993820323841

This better be good

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
:siren::siren::siren: THE PISSDOCTOR IS IN THE CAR :siren::siren::siren:

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

This better be good and not "he had well-done steak and ketchup at dinner, can you fuckin believe that?"

hanales
Nov 3, 2013
loving lol the zoom rewind on comey coming out of the garage.

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Alter Ego posted:

This better be good and not "he had well-done steak and ketchup at dinner, can you fuckin believe that?"

uh if he reveals that trump disavows hungry man meals and instant potatoes he may lose another 3-4% of his base

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Why would the reporter yell out "You ready?!?!" as if Comey was going to respond.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

Josh Lyman posted:

Why would the reporter yell out "You ready?!?!" as if Comey was going to respond.

Hype man failed.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Josh Lyman posted:

Why would the reporter yell out "You ready?!?!" as if Comey was going to respond.

:laffo:

Watching it, then reading your post was perfectly timed.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005
Personally, I don't expect anything explosive. It's Trump's reaction I'm looking forward to--his angry tweets will do more to incriminate him than anything Comey says today.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Alter Ego posted:

Personally, I don't expect anything explosive. It's Trump's reaction I'm looking forward to--his angry tweets will do more to incriminate him than anything Comey says today.

And he will tweet.

That said, when he accused Comey of being a showboat, he wasn't wrong.

hanales
Nov 3, 2013
Why wasn't he wearing a gold suit to blend in with the SUV

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

Night10194 posted:

And he will tweet.

That said, when he accused Comey of being a showboat, he wasn't wrong.

Comey's been avoiding the media spotlight. All we've gotten about him has been gotten secondhand through friends and associates, because he hasn't talked to the media himself once.

Ironically, Trump firing him for being a showboat is what's going to turn him into a star :v:

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

skeleton warrior posted:

How priveledged do you have to be to say 'if Democrats don't give me everything I want, I'm cool with Trump, McConnel, and Ryan running unrestricted for another two years'?
It's not clear to me that enabling centrist control of the Democratic party, as they carry on with business as usual at the DNC and so on, is any better. If centrists shut out the left and then squeak out wins in 2018 and 2020, we'll be right back in the same place before 2030, except perhaps with a more competently evil Republican party.

Also :lol: at "damned privileged socialists :argh:". Either I'm a leftist despite my privilege or I'm a leftist because I have none. Can't be both.

Toaster Beef
Jan 23, 2007

that's not nature's way
If Comey's a showboat, he's the most low-key showboat imaginable

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

Kilroy posted:

It's not clear to me that enabling centrist control of the Democratic party, as they carry on with business as usual at the DNC and so on, is any better. If centrists shut out the left and then squeak out wins in 2018 and 2020, we'll be right back in the same place before 2030, except perhaps with a more competently evil Republican party.

Also :lol: at "damned privileged socialists :argh:". Either I'm a leftist despite my privilege or I'm a leftist because I have none. Can't be both.

I'm not sure if you've been paying attention since November, but the left has more sway over the Democratic Party than they've ever had. Would be kinda hard for the "centrists" to shut them out now.

Serfer
Mar 10, 2003

The piss tape is real



Let me be the first to say:
Holy poo poo! Piss!

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
started a GDT for the hearing:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3823090

nachos
Jun 27, 2004

Wario Chalmers! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

grandstander!!

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Kilroy posted:

It's not clear to me that enabling centrist control of the Democratic party, as they carry on with business as usual at the DNC and so on, is any better. If centrists shut out the left and then squeak out wins in 2018 and 2020, we'll be right back in the same place before 2030, except perhaps with a more competently evil Republican party.

Also :lol: at "damned privileged socialists :argh:". Either I'm a leftist despite my privilege or I'm a leftist because I have none. Can't be both.

the democratic party has moved further and further left over the last 8 years

rehashing the nature of purity tests in this thread is as dumb as purity tests

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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Night10194 posted:

And he will tweet.

That said, when he accused Comey of being a showboat, he wasn't wrong.

Donald Trump is the last person on Earth who should be accusing anyone if being a showboat.

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