CNN's @JakeTapper: Trump doctored a hurricane map — so who knows if his transcript will be complete https://t.co/wAwhUv2pNi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 24, 2019
So the crazed, dried up circus peanut is going to try and distract from all of this with a “transcript”? I rolled my eyes so hard I almost hurt myself.
Will that transcript be written in sharpie or crayon?
Here’s another ITMFA open thread while we wait for Pelosi.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Infrastructure Week!
psycholinguist
WAPO headline – Nancy gonna impeach that mofo
rikyrah
truth
Wag
Tapper has a chance to redeem himself. A chance… if he keeps up this good work and stays out of Bothsiderismtown.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Before we get back into today’s excitement, I blogged about the economic realities of writing fiction, using the marvelous Adrian McKinty as an example of how little money even great writers often make.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@psycholinguist: I have my doubts that’s a word-for-word quote of the WaPo headline, but yeah!
artem1s
I got a text from Resist a little while ago. Nancy Smash has scheduled a caucus meeting on impeachment for 4 PM today. tic toc MOFO.
JPL
The Senate has *unanimously* agreed to Schumer’s resolution calling for the whistleblower complaint to be turned over the intelligence committees immediately.
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
You’re right to doubt. Here’s the actual WaPo headline:
“ITMFA”
walden
[expletive deleted]?
jl
Well, if we could get a copy of Trump’s edits on the transcript, that would be useful. That’s a more accurate analogy, for my fellow nit pickers on this blog.
Seriously, more than one ex-WH staffer has said there is no guarantee the WH even ever made an actual transcript. Often all the WH has is staff notes.
So, the whole exercise might be bogus from the get go.
SFAW
Where the fuck is Yarrow? We need him to make the “Tick tock, motherfucker” official.
WereBear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I loved that post, retweeted it, and am pleased to have discovered him!
WereBear
@artem1s: I did too, and sent a pithy email to all my reps.
randy khan
I’m sure all the bits crossed out in black Sharpie will have nothing to do with Biden or any threats to the Ukranian government.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SFAW: I had to google that, but also yeah!
@WereBear: McKinty rocks.
TaMara (HFG)
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good read. I feel so blessed I have a day job that allows me to write. I write because there seems to be a story that insists on getting out and characters who won’t go away. I love writing. My day job ain’t bad either. Yes, I hope people read it, but mostly because my goal is to entertain.
Bruce K
My feelings on the impeachment of the current occupant of the Oval Office can be summed up in the following eight-second YouTube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6-3l3hCm0
Raoul
Unanimous sense of the senate motion just passed calling on the Trump Admin to release the full whistleblower document. Not just the transcript, the thing the DNI & Barr blocked.
McConnell was given the chance to block this, he didn’t, and it passed by unanimous consent. Even James* from Ben Sasse’s office voted yes.
*Emerging internet meme.
laura
@WereBear: Ditto. Sent it off to spouse. We’ve read/listened to everything Adrian McKinty has written.
Well developed characters, engrossing historical context, messiness, hash-n-tobacco smokes, tilt-bombs.
Thank you Dorothy A. Winsor.
Also, ITMFA!
The California DMV issued me that very sentiment on my license plate during Bush the lesser. I proudly turned them in when President Obama was elected because I was never going to need them again.
Tic Tic BOOM!
different-church-lady
I think it’s more like he’s too dumb to realize he did an impeachmentable thing and thinks the transcript is going to exonerate him.
NotMax
“K” key broken?
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
Sharpie, of course.
lurker dean
@JPL: trying to figure out what this unanimous vote signifies, if anything. apparently the resolution is non-binding, so this might just be cover for gop senators. otoh, it could suggest the dam is really breaking.
Kay
Wow:
49 yes, 24 no.
TaMara (HFG)
@NotMax: Sometimes it’s better without the k
NotMax
@lurker dean
What it signifies is the members of the Senate take umbrage at being treated as doormats.
jl
@lurker dean: I think it’s both. McConnell knows it will look really rally bad if it can’t get past the Senate, but wants to protect Senators who are afraid to put their vote on the record in fear of what that might mean for the primaries.
McConnell senses he may face increasingly hard choices for the 2020 primaries and general election if he wants to keep the Senate, especially if he know there is more, and worse, stuff to come out. Tamp down the number of crazies who might upset a GOP Senator in the primaries and do well enough in the general.
Edit: Remember there is a good chance the Trump Ukraine shake down scheme may have been leaked by the Trumpsters themselves in order to ‘get ahead’ of future revelations. If so, good Lord, what is the other stuff the whistle blower reported? And there most likely is other stuff probably not directly related to the attempted Ukrainian shake down to smear Biden.
Kay
No. He’s not allowed to wheel and deal. The law says we get the whistleblower complaint. He and his low quality hires have to follow it like everyone else.
lumpkin
Hope I’m wrong but I wouldn’t be surprised if the NYT bought this pig in a poke sight unseen.
robmassing
What transcript? The one he will release right after he releases his tax returns?
Shalimar
@jl: I swear I read a few days ago that the White House has a recording of the call. Not just a transcript.
jonas
All the reporting so far has seemed to focus on the idea that the whistleblower complaint was about a — or perhaps several — one-to-one phone calls made between Trump and Zelensky. This WH can absolutely NOT be trusted with producing a trustworthy transcript, so we need that report. But do we know for sure that it was the phone call alone that triggered the whistleblower complaint? The WH seems eager to 1. release transcripts of the conversation and 2. stonewall actually letting anyone see what is in the IG report/complaint, so I’m wondering if there isn’t something else going on. There are other ways the IC can come to know about presidential conversations than via a recording or being in the room when the president is on the phone with another leader.
TS (the original)
@JPL: The GOP senate members are beginning their rehabilitation process. By Christmas they will have been against trump from day 1.
jl
@Shalimar: Thanks, if true. I’d like to know the source of that story, though.
Fair Economist
@jonas:
We know, as well as we can, that it was *not* the only issue. The original leak said there were 8 issues. There have been other leaks supporting that.
Fair Economist
@lurker dean:
There wasn’t a vote; it was unanimous consent. It means that right now no Senator is willing to say the complaint shouldn’t be released.
sgrAstar
Experience has taught us tht the senate Rs are totally untrustworthy. What benefit accrues to the administration if the whistleblower info is routed into the Intelligence Committees? Cuz I’m sure that a benefit exists. These people are not just gonna roll over for the good of the Republic. Not a chance.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
As a writer who strives for quality, how do you feel about the mediocre (or not even that good) authors who sell bazillions and become fabulously wealthy?