Impeach the Motherfucker!

Lobbest thou thy human hand grenade in the direction of thine foe…

by Betty Cracker| January 23, 20204:45 pm| 94 Comments

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Here’s the stuff I’ve looked forward to the most: House Manager Schiff rubbing the assembled Republican senators’ noses in Trump and Giuliani’s Ukraine/DNC/Soros crackpottery:

Schiff: "Rudy Giuliani is not some Svengali here, who has the president under his control…And if [Trump] is willing to listen to his personal lawyer over his own intelligence agencies, his own advisers, then you can imagine what a danger that presents." https://t.co/7CO9n4TTiG pic.twitter.com/aqIdAdC5EB
— ABC News (@ABC) January 23, 2020

I think Trump sincerely believes this bullshit since he’s dumb and aggrieved and he admires Putin. The Ukraine conspiracy theory is therefore irresistible since it suggests that Trump did TOO win fair and square without a boost from Putin and conveniently exculpates the latter so maybe they can hang out and swap tales of crushing underlings and bond over their shared impulse to aggressively bend scowling women to their iron will or whatever.

Giuliani may be a believer too, or perhaps he merely sensed the massive opportunities for graft in the Ukraine shakedown scheme. Regardless, most Senate Republicans know it’s all a load of bullshit. So the least they can do is sit there and squirm through every agonizing and embarrassing account of how Russia-driven propaganda informs U.S. foreign policy thanks to their party’s idiot president.

Open thread.

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Impeachment Open Thread 3 – Now with more treason!

by ruemara| January 22, 20204:17 pm| 104 Comments

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Well, I can’t watch. I think I’m going to go run get a flu shot to see if that helps. But you can. Here’s a fresh thread, jackals.

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Lawyer lawsuits and other horseshit

by Betty Cracker| January 22, 202010:45 am| 80 Comments

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If you were puzzled by Trump impeachment lawyer Jay Sekulow’s odd rant about “lawyer lawsuits” yesterday, you’re not alone. Turns out he misunderstood Rep. Val Demings’ reference to “FOIA lawsuits” and wasted several minutes of the Senate’s time on a moronic non-issue:

Here’s Jay Sekulow getting angry over “lawyer lawsuits” — a bizarre reference the Post ascribed to Sekulow mishearing Rep. Demings’s comment about “FOIA lawsuits.” (The White House later doubled down on Seklow’s mistake!) https://t.co/M29fEIe3XC pic.twitter.com/n84eEPnxyx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

The Post has a story about it here: An embarrassing moment for Trump’s legal team.

Appearing shortly after 6 p.m. on the Senate floor, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Jay Sekulow offered an indignant rebuke of the Democrats’ impeachment managers. What he was so incensed about: that they had allegedly referred to “lawyer lawsuits” in prosecuting the case against Trump.
“And by the way — lawyer lawsuits?” Sekulow began. “Lawyer lawsuits? We’re talking about the impeachment of a president of the United States, duly elected, and the members — the managers are complaining about lawyer lawsuits? The Constitution allows lawyer lawsuits. It’s disrespecting the Constitution of the United States to even say that in this chamber — lawyer lawsuits…”
What’s even more remarkable about the flap is that the White House actually stood by Sekulow’s allegation. Asked about the remark by reporters later in the night, White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland reportedly walked away, only to return a while later — apparently after checking? — and suggest that Sekulow had not erred.

Make a monumentally dumb error, then double down on it. How on brand is that for Team Trump?

Also, a reminder: Sekulow is a grifter who parts wingnut evangelical fools from their money via a fraudulent nonprofit. Again, SO on brand!

*****

Switching gears, Joe Biden’s campaign just released another video. It’s a long one featuring Andrew Bates, the campaign’s rapid response director — just a regular guy having a beer while explaining why Trump’s corruption accusation against Biden is self-serving horseshit. The words “horseshit” and “bullshit” are used, amplifying the regular guy down at the pub vibe…

[Points off for the green grocer apostrophes laid over Trump’s “yelicopter” dialogue at the 3:16 mark.]

I think Biden’s campaign ads thus far have been pretty good. This one isn’t up to their usual standard, IMO, but it’s not an ad they’re going to run on TV. They want to get the facts about Biden’s activities in Ukraine out in a relatively succinct package for people to share on Facebook, etc. It’ll probably work just fine for that. Open thread.

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Call your senators!

by Betty Cracker| January 21, 202011:46 am| 60 Comments

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It’s not much, but there is something you can do about the Republicans’ scheme to hold a fake impeachment trial with no witnesses and no documents: you can call your senators and tell them that you (along with nearly 70% of Americans, according to a CNN poll that came out yesterday) want a real trial with witnesses and documents.

202-224-3121

That’s the Capitol switchboard number. It’s easier to Google your senators and call them directly. I left messages for the craven shitstains Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. Only takes a few seconds.

It’s easy to feel hopeless about this whole thing, but I don’t think we should. Republicans control the trial, so of course they’re going to rig it, and there’s a 99.9% chance they’ll acquit Trump. (I say 99.9% rather than 100% because it’s possible that Trump will poop in his pants during a Davos presser today, strip to the waist and try to draw the 2016 Electoral College map on the wall, using his own turds as a Sharpie.)

But even so, his ass is impeached! And a majority of the country wants him removed! That’s a big fucking deal! It’s also 100% obvious that the Republicans in Congress are propping up Trump’s unpopular, criminal ass, which is helpful to our cause in 2020.

So, call your damned senators. It’ll make you feel better, even if they are a pair of corrupt toadies like mine.

Open thread!

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At Least Somebody Is Doing It

by download my app in the app store mistermix| January 16, 20209:17 am| 105 Comments

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MOSCOW — Ukrainian authorities announced a probe Thursday into possible surveillance of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch before she was dismissed from her post by the Trump administration.
The statement by Ukraine’s Interior Ministry followed the disclosure of new documents in the impeachment case against President Trump. The material included exchanges between Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, and others about the need to push Yovanovitch from her post.

Some douchebags decided that they were going to start a surveillance project on one of our ambassadors, perhaps in preparation for an assassination attempt, and we’re not the first country to launch an investigation? Jesus, how can the he-man Republican superhawks, ready to launch a fucking war at the drop of a god damned hat, live with themselves? If a Democrat had done this, the emasculation rhetoric would make spring castration on a Dakota ranch seem like a kiddie rodeo. But not these disgusting, compromised, subservient, traitorous fucks in the Trump administration — they just bend the knee.

(If there’s been any statement from the State Department at all on the latest Yovanovitch revelations, I haven’t seen it.)

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Even Dana Milbank

by download my app in the app store mistermix| January 15, 20209:22 am| 18 Comments

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He was pretty awful a few years ago but I guess a rising Trump lifts a lot of mediocre boats :

This had to be one of the most successful failures — one of the most triumphant defeats — in modern political history.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) clearly failed in the stated aim of her four-week delay in sending impeachment articles to the Senate: to withhold the articles and the naming of impeachment managers until, as she put it last month, “we see the process that is set forth in the Senate.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t reveal his impeachment resolution and made no commitment to bring forth witnesses or documents.
But Pelosi’s delay seems to have blunted any hope President Trump’s defenders had of dismissing the charges without a trial. Before the speaker’s gambit, McConnell pledged that “there will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this.” Trump is now calling for a dismissal, but Senate Republicans say they won’t allow that.

This is about as close as a beltway asshole who treats politics like sports talk radio — picking winners and losers for everything, focusing on personality instead of performance — is going to get to a nuanced perspective. When you only control the House, you’re “winning” if you’ve been able to leverage your power to make the Senate do more then they were otherwise going to do, and get some positive attention. Both of those goals were accomplished, even though we’re ultimately going to “lose” on conviction.

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Open Thread: Brutal

by TaMara (HFG)| January 14, 20207:23 pm| 39 Comments

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This is just brutal. From the Lincoln Project.

But true.

It might be time to call our senators to let them know, a trial has witnesses, a coverup doesn’t.

Anyone watching the debate tonight? I have a migraine, so I’m afraid watching it might just do me in. I’ll probably find something junky to watch instead.

Open thread.

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