POTUS 45.61: All Are Welcome to Watch This Circus

[French Rage]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I WANT NOTHING<br>but I would like... <a href="https://t.co/xUR4p3XGIc">pic.twitter.com/xUR4p3XGIc</a></p>— Radical Proletarian (@jayrq6o9) <a href="https://twitter.com/jayrq6o9/status/1197211185550184452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm looking forward to the new talking point of "'like' isn't 'want'!".

 

[Kepler]

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When you've lost Ken Starr...

Starr also said that Sondland’s testimony brought the Ukraine pressure campaign “closer to the President” and that “it doesn’t look good for the President substantively.”

Starr then mentioned that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) discussed the impeachment of former President Richard Nixon.

“We already have one article of impeachment and the third article of impeachment in the Richard Nixon situation is very clear, it’s very succinct, it’s very well done,” Starr said.

Starr added that “there will be articles of impeachment” and that Sondland’s testimony “has been one of those bombshell days.”

“I think we’ve known that. It was just confirmed today and then, substantively, what we heard from [Schiff] just now is: It’s over. We now know — this is his position — we now know that the President in fact committed the crime of bribery,” Starr said. “Something of value. That’s litigable, but I think articles of impeachment are being drawn up if they haven’t already been drawn up. So it depends, will it be bipartisan and so forth. So this obviously has been one of those bombshell days.”

For Republicans now, unless you are directly at risk of losing your job if you go against Dump (his family and sycophants, GOP Members, Echo Chamber hosts) you know it's over on the merits.

Today was the Alexander Butterfield day for this impeachment. It still won't result in removal because the Republican voters now are far dumber, more ignorant, and more vicious than 1973, but today was the day Dump lost even the last possibility of escaping the historical verdict of guilt.

From now on for Republicans it's just about whether you don't mind being remembered as a traitor as long you get to keep licking the lollipop. My read on Republican Senators is none of them will mind. It's Dump's party and McConnell's conscience, now.

 

[ticapnews]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">100% THAT *****! She had time today!
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SondlandTestimony?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SondlandTestimony</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImpeachmentHearing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImpeachmentHearing</a> <a href="https://t.co/ctCJ3aREe1">pic.twitter.com/ctCJ3aREe1</a></p>— Christian DePaul (@christiansedwat) <a href="https://twitter.com/christiansedwat/status/1197241331594084353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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This is real? My god, I thought it was fake

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump holds what appears to be a prepared statement and handwritten notes after watching testimony by Gordon Sondland as he speaks to reporters. More live updates from the impeachment hearings: <a href="https://t.co/GE3tfHNyp9">https://t.co/GE3tfHNyp9</a> Erin Scott <a href="https://t.co/IgjTsrL2ck">pic.twitter.com/IgjTsrL2ck</a></p>— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) <a href="https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/1197204467206230016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[ticapnews]

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When you've lost Ken Starr...



For Republicans now, unless you are directly at risk of losing your job if you go against Dump (his family and sycophants, GOP Members, Echo Chamber hosts) you know it's over on the merits.

Today was the Alexander Butterfield day for this impeachment. It still won't result in removal because the Republican voters now are far dumber, more ignorant, and more vicious than 1973, but today was the day Dump lost even the last possibility of escaping the historical verdict of guilt.

From now on for Republicans it's just about whether you don't mind being remembered as a traitor as long you get to keep licking the lollipop. My read on Republican Senators is none of them will mind. It's Dump's party and McConnell's conscience, now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ken Starr on Fox wonders if senate will nudge Drumpf to resign: “The real issue is if senators are watching. Are senators going to now say in light of what we hear today, ...‘We need to make a trip down to the White House’? That historic example set during the Nixon presidency."</p>— Lois Romano (@loisromano) <a href="https://twitter.com/loisromano/status/1197194126653034496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I doubt any of them are watching though.

 

[French Rage]

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This is real? My god, I thought it was fake

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump holds what appears to be a prepared statement and handwritten notes after watching testimony by Gordon Sondland as he speaks to reporters. More live updates from the impeachment hearings: <a href="https://t.co/GE3tfHNyp9">https://t.co/GE3tfHNyp9</a> Erin Scott <a href="https://t.co/IgjTsrL2ck">pic.twitter.com/IgjTsrL2ck</a></p>— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) <a href="https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/1197204467206230016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yeah I saw it elsewhere and first assumed it was a 'shop. Rule 1 for this administration, it's always real.

 

[alfablue]

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Oh and the Republican Counsel is a moron. He tried to get Sondland to say "Trump didnt order this" only to have Sondland say "it wasnt an order but it was made clear if I wanted to work on this I had to talk to Rudy". They are trying to throw Rudy under the bus and failing...

Oh and now the Counsel is trying to make it sound like Sondland purposefully left stuff out of his statement that makes the President look better.

Come on, the russian Counsel are awesome- they are so good that after hours and hours and hours of Clinton testimony, they got her sent to jail. Oh, wait, that didn't happen.

They are morons. And it's scary to think how many people think the russians are right, in spite of the total failure of ANYONE going to jail over their allegations.

Whereas actual people surrounding this president are wearing jump suits as we speak. Others are heading that way, too.

 

[Kepler]

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I doubt any of them are watching though.

Apparently many of the Republicans had left the chamber before Sondland even finished his testimony. They literally "aint tryin to hear that."

 

[geezer]

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When you've lost Ken Starr...

My initial thought here was that, surely, Starr turned on Trump months, if not years ago. Then I saw his quotes in the WP from just three weeks ago:

Starr wasn’t finished. During this week’s interview, he also absolved Trump of guilt, both for obstruction of justice in the Mueller inquiry and for wrongdoing in the Ukraine quid pro quo, saying Trump’s “intent” was pure. Starr protested that Trump “is being held to a remarkable standard” in which we are “over-criminalizing the conduct of the business of government.”

Seriously? From the man who pushed to impeach a president for lying about oral sex in a civil deposition? Back then, Starr rejected the argument that Clinton’s “intent” in lying was to avoid embarrassment, not to perjure himself.

Starr, still going, suggested this week that impeachment is a plot by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to seize the presidency. A “conflict of interest is that the speaker of the House is guiding this process when she is third in succession,” he argued. “She will do well if she can have the elimination of Donald Trump from office and then Vice President Pence somehow.”

That's a very sharp turn.

 

[French Rage]

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Apparently many of the Republicans had left the chamber before Sondland even finished his testimony. They literally "aint tryin to hear that."

I guess they view hearings like sex; they don't enjoy it unless they force their way in.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Haha Maloney going after sonderland, joked about how it’s nice to get the truth the third time around

 

[Handyman]

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Yeah I saw it elsewhere and first assumed it was a 'shop. Rule 1 for this administration, it's always real.

I assumed it was a shop because some of the words were spelled correctly. That being real is just amazing

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I guess they view hearings like sex; they don't enjoy it unless they force their way in.

Zing! That’s a good one

 

[ticapnews]

Apparently many of the Republicans had left the chamber before Sondland even finished his testimony. They literally "aint tryin to hear that."

A bunch of them were attending the Joni Ernst press conference where she was announcing her version of the VAWA, which is substantially different from the version that passed the House. (Spoiler alert: Miss Thundercat is going to LOVE it!)

 

[Handyman]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS: Fox News Anchor Says That Today Ambassador Gordon Sondland "Implicated" and "Took Out the Bus and Ran Over" Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and Mulvaney <a href="https://t.co/YJmf1DAXUi">https://t.co/YJmf1DAXUi</a></p>— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1197247569950203909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Handyman]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's important to note the timing of Trump's "I want nothing..I want no quid pro quo" statement to Sondland: It occurred on September 9, the exact same day the House Intel Committee received the whistleblower's complaint....</p>— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1197222187305967620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Kepler]

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I guess they view hearings like sex; they don't enjoy it unless they force their way in.

You would win the internet on most days but today is a very high bar.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

I cant watch anymore...it is just so painful.

I could not watch any of it today. And the debate will ruin the coverage of it. Going to have to read tomorrow.

 

[rufus]

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My initial thought here was that, surely, Starr turned on Trump months, if not years ago. Then I saw his quotes in the WP from just three weeks ago:
That's a very sharp turn.

Yeah, but later, he went on to say how Sondland's failure to include Trump's "I want nothing" statement in his opening remarks was very peculiar, and reflected very well on the president.

 

[MissThundercat]

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A bunch of them were attending the Joni Ernst press conference where she was announcing her version of the VAWA, which is substantially different from the version that passed the House. (Spoiler alert: Miss Thundercat is going to LOVE it!)

Loosely translated: Miss Thundercat is not going to love any of it.