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Wylie posted:Is it Gaetz? I bet it's Gaetz. It was Collins. It seems their narrative today is no longer "Where's the whistleblower?" but rather "Where's Schiff?" It's been pointed out before, but I find the role calls amusing since the democrat side has people of all types, and then the GOP side is Angry Old Guy, Angry Old Guy, Angry Old Guy, Angry Jim Jordan, Racin' Matt Gaetz, Angry Old Guy... Velocity Raptor fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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ManBoyChef posted:Gaetz really bothers the hell out of me. He is such an entitled little bastard. This is what happens when you* let rich stupid WASPs get away with DUIs. *referring to America in general
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ManBoyChef posted:Gaetz really bothers the hell out of me. He is such an entitled little bastard. His father was heavily in Florida politics for decades and basically engineered for him to get the seat. He has several DUI stops that have magically disappeared over the years. From talking to people who grew up around him there is a lot of things that he has done that got swept under the rug because of his daddy. Also it is pretty much an open secret that he has a big drug and alcohol problem.
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Velocity Raptor posted:
And two women who want to speak to your manager.
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Dec 9, 2019 18:04
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uh oh because ukranians said mean things about papa trump that's interference! what the gently caress
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I have a special rule - whenever a republican says "Chalupa" i immediately disregard everything they have said up to that point and mute/turn them off. It's a useful sort of reverse-dogwhistle that tells me I can tune out because this person knows they are lying and spreading bullshit if they say Chalupa I hear out and listen to ones that do not say Chalupa
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Is anyone listening to this stuff from Castor? I'm not sure how doubling down on conspiracy theories and "well Hunter Biden SHOULD have been investigated!" are supposed to be convincing arguments. Then again this process has basically been Republicans inventing their position whole cloth.
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idiotsavant posted:Is anyone listening to this stuff from Castor? I'm not sure how doubling down on conspiracy theories and "well Hunter Biden SHOULD have been investigated!" are supposed to be convincing arguments. Then again this process has basically been Republicans inventing their position whole cloth. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1204083799501557760?s=20 yeah its all garbage
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idiotsavant posted:Is anyone listening to this stuff from Castor? I'm not sure how doubling down on conspiracy theories and "well Hunter Biden SHOULD have been investigated!" are supposed to be convincing arguments. Then again this process has basically been Republicans inventing their position whole cloth. Probably not. It's baffling that they chose to move forward with him as their testifying counsel considering his performance weeks ago. This is extremely boring coupled with the testimony occuring during lunch hour for the east coast.
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kaworu posted:I have a special rule - whenever a republican says "Chalupa" i immediately disregard everything they have said up to that point and mute/turn them off. It's a useful sort of reverse-dogwhistle that tells me I can tune out because this person knows they are lying and spreading bullshit if they say Chalupa I have a special rule where if they say Chalupa I have Taco Bell for dinner. I've been having a lot of chalupas recently.
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saltylopez posted:Probably not. It's baffling that they chose to move forward with him as their testifying counsel considering his performance weeks ago. This is extremely boring coupled with the testimony occuring during lunch hour for the east coast. I kinda think thats their strategy, Toby lays out how boring the Dem's attacks are, everyone sleeps through the impeachment vote, Trump Magas for 4 more years bing bang bing e: from the NYTimes tviv: Catie EdmondsonCongressional Correspondent It’s much harder to stay rhetorically angry and on offense for 45 minutes straight than it is to kind of meander and generally muddy the waters in the way that Castor is currently doing.
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kaworu posted:I have a special rule - whenever a republican says "Chalupa" i immediately disregard everything they have said up to that point and mute/turn them off. It's a useful sort of reverse-dogwhistle that tells me I can tune out because this person knows they are lying and spreading bullshit if they say Chalupa Honestly, I still don't know what the gently caress a chalupa is in this context.
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Castor could start reading the service manual from a washing machine right now and nobody would notice.
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Literally Kermit posted:Honestly, I still don't know what the gently caress a chalupa is in this context. Alexandra Chalupa is DNC worker in Ukraine. I *believe* she worked with Steele on the Steele Dossier https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/alexandra-chalupa/
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idiotsavant posted:Is anyone listening to this stuff from Castor? I'm not sure how doubling down on conspiracy theories and "well Hunter Biden SHOULD have been investigated!" are supposed to be convincing arguments. Then again this process has basically been Republicans inventing their position whole cloth. The fact he is bringing up hunter biden and that legal corruption shows that he has nothing. There is no way for him to excuse Trump's actions.
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SalTheBard posted:Alexandra Chalupa is DNC worker in Ukraine. I *believe* she worked with Steele on the Steele Dossier there's also her sister, andrea, who's a journalist focusing on ukraine and these same issues (iirc, they're of ukrainian descent). republicans tend to get confused which A. Chalupa is the enemy
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idiotsavant posted:Is anyone listening to this stuff from Castor? I'm not sure how doubling down on conspiracy theories and "well Hunter Biden SHOULD have been investigated!" are supposed to be convincing arguments. Then again this process has basically been Republicans inventing their position whole cloth.
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ManBoyChef posted:The fact he is bringing up hunter biden and that legal corruption shows that he has nothing. There is no way for him to excuse Trump's actions. So I know it's a conspiracy theory and meaningless but Even if everything the GOP is saying about Hunter Biden was true wouldn't this all still be 100% an impeachable offense? Like, let's assume that big daddy Trump is just trying to stamp out corruption - having Giuliani go rogue instead of using the Department of Justice still seems like a crime all the same? I mean, I know the GOP doesn't actually care and we shouldnt cede a rhetorical inch on this conspiracy nonsense, but I'd like at least someone to point out that it's a crime even within the Noble Giuliani documentary/expanded universe
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Dec 9, 2019 18:47
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lol Gohmert saying "you don't get to be a witness and a judge in the same case" with a "Where's Schiff?" sign right behind him
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hahahah Castor being questioned about all of Trump's tweets about Biden uhhhhhh I don't get on Twitter much
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All these Republicans acting indignant, throwing their pens and rolling eyes.
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kaworu posted:I have a special rule - whenever a republican says "Chalupa" i immediately disregard everything they have said up to that point and mute/turn them off. It's a useful sort of reverse-dogwhistle that tells me I can tune out because this person knows they are lying and spreading bullshit if they say Chalupa Why listen and hear them out at all
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CSPAN Caller posted:What doesn't make sense to me is that Rudy made his name prosecuting mafia under complex federal charges and ought to be uniquely aware of how to hide his tracks and obscure his purpose. IIRC, as prosecutor, he often had to make fairly subtle connections between coded language on wiretaps, under cover testimony, and purchasing patterns to demonstrate bribery, extortion, etc. so you think he'd know what to avoid when soliciting foreign corruption. He made his career out of the being the guy in charge of the team prosecuting mafia under complex federal (RICO) charges. IIRC he didn't do much of the actual groundwork. quote:Giuliani announced that his top priority as U.S. attorney was to defeat organized crime in New York, where the chiefs of the so-called “Five Families” lived and operated. He read Mob boss Joseph Bonanno’s 1983 memoir A Man of Honor, in which Bonanno described meetings with bosses of the other four families — Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese — a national ruling body referred to as “the Commission.” The Commission, going back to 1931, met secretly to settle differences, consider new members, approve murders and dole out money earned through racketeering. Giuliani received permission from Washington to pursue a case against the Commission. By 1984, 350 FBI agents and 100 New York Police detectives were investigating the Mob. Between aging, his drinking problem and hitting his head in a fall in 2016, yeah.
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US Foreign Policy posted:So I know it's a conspiracy theory and meaningless but Even if everything the GOP is saying about Hunter Biden was true wouldn't this all still be 100% an impeachable offense? Like, let's assume that big daddy Trump is just trying to stamp out corruption - having Giuliani go rogue instead of using the Department of Justice still seems like a crime all the same? Absolutely right. If Trump was actually convinced that Hunter Biden was up to something criminal, there are established agencies and protocols for dealing with it. Leaning on Ukraine's President the way he did is impeachable abuse of power regardless.
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"It's ambiguous" holy poo poo I'm dying
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this is legitimately great and I wish we'd gotten here sooner, he's making Castor look like a fool https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1204098559534088192
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Katie Rogers White House Correspondent posted:Speaking of working on stories, just popping in to give the current scene at the White House, where the impeachment hearing is playing on mute in the press secretary’s office — even if it’s playing on four different screens. To give you an idea of where the other players are: There’s a war-room style setup in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where a rapid response team full of strategists, researchers and lawyers are publishing out some of the cable-ready talking points we are currently seeing from the White House. And the president is currently at work — “He’s presidenting,” as one official put it when I asked what he was up to.
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eke out posted:this is legitimately great and I wish we'd gotten here sooner, he's making Castor look like a fool This guy gives me serious Rick Moranis vibes.
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hahahahahahahaha holy poo poo
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Castor's face is all "wow I do not like this at all"
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Gaetz should drink less before work if he wants to see straight.
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the smartest thing the GOP has done all these proceedings is realize how hosed they are from this and desperately try to interrupt
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This is some baby whining bullshit from the minority
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LOL, my wife just asked if they get stoppage time like in soccer. They really should.
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Solkanar512 posted:LOL, my wife just asked if they get stoppage time like in soccer. They really should. they should be stopping the clock for these but i can't tell if they are
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