Pretty sure that sign actually means Schiff always follows the rules - doesn't it?
So I guess that's why the Repubs are always so pissed off(?)
Yeah, we can fuck that up.
Of course we can fuck that up.
We're the GOP.
Nov 22, 2019
It's Gonna Take A Dead Hooker
...but don't count on it - Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC:
"Shot four times in the back with a bolt-action 30.06? An obvious suicide - the facts are in." --Jim Jordan
"Shot four times in the back with a bolt-action 30.06? An obvious suicide - the facts are in." --Jim Jordan
Today's Tweet
The weird flipflop evolution thing that Lindsey Graham has gone through is one of the more intriguing stories of the Cult45 era.
How he went from the mavericky McCain entourage to the ass-kisser he is now will be a mystery that could easily make some history major's career.
Today I began an investigation into the Bidens. Did the Biden's do anything wrong? NO. Am I doing this to make @realDonaldTrump look innocent? YES. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!! IT WILL MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A MONSTER... pic.twitter.com/ZBEe80o4zZ— Lindsey Graham’s “Fake” Conscience (@LGsConscience) November 22, 2019
Nov 21, 2019
A Score Card
CREW - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Go to the CREW website, hover over the different sections, and be astounded at the depth and the breadth of what this "administration" is about - even when you stop to see that the thing is only focused on the Trump part of it, and doesn't include the rest of Cult45.
Go to the CREW website, hover over the different sections, and be astounded at the depth and the breadth of what this "administration" is about - even when you stop to see that the thing is only focused on the Trump part of it, and doesn't include the rest of Cult45.
Another Strong Close
Adam Schiff, Chair, House Intelligence Committee
We'll see what we see, but I still won't get my hopes up too high.
Republicans aren't coming around - not yet - not publicly. And the conventional wisdom is that they won't cut 45* loose until the political cost of staying with him becomes too great and too obvious for them to bear. Duh.
Our government is degenerate.
It's a little weird to think that way about the US. There's always an element of Daddy State philosophy in government. And always there are people who believe government is there to force us all into a particular way of thinking - not just the basics of knowing our rights and respecting each other's rights, but to use the full weight of the threat of deadly force to make people conform to the arbitrary musings of doctrinaires rather than trying to nail down a few guiding principles that give us a chance to live up to our stated goal of forming a more perfect union.
The good news is that I think we're starting to bend history's arc back towards justice.
The bad news is that we haven't passed thru this very dangerous crossroads yet.
And just to continue this little metaphor mashup - when you're going through hell, keep going.
We'll see what we see, but I still won't get my hopes up too high.
Republicans aren't coming around - not yet - not publicly. And the conventional wisdom is that they won't cut 45* loose until the political cost of staying with him becomes too great and too obvious for them to bear. Duh.
Our government is degenerate.
It's a little weird to think that way about the US. There's always an element of Daddy State philosophy in government. And always there are people who believe government is there to force us all into a particular way of thinking - not just the basics of knowing our rights and respecting each other's rights, but to use the full weight of the threat of deadly force to make people conform to the arbitrary musings of doctrinaires rather than trying to nail down a few guiding principles that give us a chance to live up to our stated goal of forming a more perfect union.
The good news is that I think we're starting to bend history's arc back towards justice.
The bad news is that we haven't passed thru this very dangerous crossroads yet.
And just to continue this little metaphor mashup - when you're going through hell, keep going.
Nov 20, 2019
Today's Tweet
What had to be said. And what too many of us have been thinking Schiff wouldn't say.
This is a pretty good close.
Here's that closing statement from Schiff, via ABC. It's worth a watch.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 20, 2019
"My Republicans colleagues, all they seem to be upset about with this is not that the president sought an investigation of his political rival ... Their objection is he got caught."pic.twitter.com/M8r8JLrH61
Nov 19, 2019
Today's Tweet
The only shot Repubs have is to turn the hearings it into something they're not.
Replublicans readying for today's impeachment hearings 🐾💕 pic.twitter.com/01KIwZeEt1— Jay Arnold 🏳️🌈 (@JadedCreative) November 19, 2019
Today's Today
156 years ago, a little over 4 months after the fight, Lincoln speaks for about 2 minutes, and in the 272 words, says everything that could be said at the time.
3 days of battle. 7,000 dead. 11,000 missing. 32,000 wounded.
I think it can be said that there are wars more justifiable than others, but there is no such thing as a good war, any more than there is the real possibility of "winning" a war.
Whoever loses the least, or outlasts the opponent, gets to claim "victory", but nobody wins anything in a war.
3 days of battle. 7,000 dead. 11,000 missing. 32,000 wounded.
I think it can be said that there are wars more justifiable than others, but there is no such thing as a good war, any more than there is the real possibility of "winning" a war.
Whoever loses the least, or outlasts the opponent, gets to claim "victory", but nobody wins anything in a war.
Nov 18, 2019
Today's Charlie
Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine (rerun from a while back - worth repeating)
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
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