Overlooked: Nancy Pelosi has been dealing with overstuffed real estate egomaniacs her entire adult life, through her developer husband. She took the measure of Donald Trump within 5 minutes. https://t.co/vNiFZlGtaM
— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) November 16, 2019
‘Stand up’: Yovanovitch uses moment in the spotlight to call on U.S. leaders to defend diplomatic corps by @karoun @PostRoz https://t.co/bo2ukDEAwA
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) November 15, 2019
Per the Washington Post:
Yovanovitch — who was abruptly yanked from her post in Kyiv after being targeted in a smear campaign that reached President Trump — warned that the State Department was “being hollowed out” and in “crisis.” She called on its leadership “to stand up for the institution and the individuals who make that institution the most effective diplomatic force in the world.”
The testimony of the former ambassador put a compelling human face on a complex international scandal that has involved a cast of unfamiliar Ukrainian characters, descriptions of shadowy back-channels and constitutional debates.
In resolute, clear tones, the veteran diplomat described how she came to learn of the plot against her — and how shaken she was to read the president’s menacing comments about her in a call to his Ukrainian counterpart…
But over and over again, Yovanovitch sought to turn the focus away from her personally and back on the larger implications of her ouster.
“Our Ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray, and shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want,” she said. “After these events, what foreign official, corrupt or not, could be blamed for wondering whether the ambassador represents the president’s views? And what U.S. ambassador could be blamed for harboring the fear that they cannot count on our government to support them?”…
When asked by Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) why she didn’t defend herself more openly to the attacks against her, she added: “I think it was for others to stand up for me.”
However, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo never made a statement in her defense because he was worried Trump would undermine it in a tweet, Yovanovitch testified that she was told…
But throughout the hearing, Yovanovitch was steely in her defense of the diplomats and institutions that promote U.S. policy abroad without weapons. She invoked the memory of everyone from the hostages in Iran to the felled in Benghazi in her appeal to respect and defend the Foreign Service against those who would undermine it — including the Trump administration…
Standing ovation from audience after Yovanovitch hearing is gaveled out pic.twitter.com/iWsYsxlsPm
— Karoun Demirjian (@karoun) November 15, 2019
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[NB: The tweets below are extraneous to this topic… but once the new Clippy system helpfully ‘frames’ a tweet-link for me, I can’t remove that frame or its contents without scrapping the whole post & starting over. Since it’s too late and I’m too tired to spend another hour-plus playing mother-may-I with the good content, just pretend they’re not here, okay?]
Chuck has his own list of what Democrats should do, which would include expanding impeachment to Russia probe and gaining access to Putin phone calls.
Court challenges would take a long time. @neeratanden was there to inject some reality
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) November 15, 2019
I realize this is the least pertinent detail, but it shouldn't go unnoticed that based on this call Mr. Trump doesn't know that Kiev is in Ukraine. https://t.co/MZpvOYaVfA
— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) November 15, 2019
Quinerly
Good morning from Poco and his chauffeur!
NotMax
S.O.P. when it comes to tweets.
;)
Clippy evolved into Cortana, which is arguably worse.
OzarkHillbilly
trump is still in the WH. Blech.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning to Poco and his chauffeur??
rikyrah
Nobody shades Dolt45 like Nancy Smash????
OzarkHillbilly
Sure Rudy, you keep choking that chicken.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
It’s not so much that Chuck Toad is an ass, it’s more that the Village is corrupt. Tom Brokaw was on Rachel saying there’s not enough evidence showing Dump’s hand was “in the cookie jar”.
For fucks sakes.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: ? He may be, but he’s not enjoying it. Small comfort, I know.
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
I have to leave soon, everyone have a good day!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
You see, it depends on what the current, active definition of current and active is.
Baud
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
Chuck admires people who are not over prepared.
Baud
Just pretend what’s not there?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: the 2 following tweets that have nothing to do with what Anne really wants to talk about.
Baud
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: Browkow really needs to move to Fox News. He can be the new Brit Hume.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It depends on what the meaning the word is is.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
He needs to go to his ranch in Montana, stay there and leave the rest of us alone.
OzarkHillbilly
There is video, if one has the stomach for it. I don’t.
Baud
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: This is my shocked face: :-O
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I still contend that Brokaw was the model for the William Hurt character in “Broadcast News.” Not sure who Albert Einstein was modeled after, however.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, bullshit. If it really were YOUR shocked face, there would be a “Blech” issuing from its mouth.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
For a moment there, I imagined being Samuel L. Jackson’s Pulp Fiction character, asking Rudy Giuliani if he speaks English.
JPL
Why oh why does the smoke alarm beep at four in the morning to remind you that you forgot to change the battery.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
“Is Donald Trump Putin’s bitch?”
“What??”
“English, motherfucker — do you speak it?”
“What???”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Rudy’s a lawyer, so he doesn’t speak English.
SFAW
Note to WaterGirl and Elves:
Although you probably already know this, the “Edit clock” goes to zero whenever you refresh a page.
SFAW
@SFAW:
Update to the “edit clock” comment: After refreshing a second time, edit clocks returned. However, the editing I did was not saved.
Win XP, Chrome
SFAW
@SFAW:
OK, after refreshing multiple times, the edited version magically appeared. Seems to be on-again, off-again, sort of.
Frank McCormick
@rikyrah:
In my Facebook post about Nancy’s shade throwing interview, I added “Nancy Snap” to her list of titles.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SFAW: Refreshing after entering a comment is still an issue.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW:
“Blech” would come out of my SSDD face, unfortunately I am not fluent in emoji. The best I can do is pigemoji.
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks. I should probably use the “Site Feedback” link, instead of being lazy.
Ladyraxterinok
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: I lost respect for Brokow when he became a 24/7 ad for his book
The Greatest Generation
And I thought they were so ‘great’ because they fough the Nazis!!
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Everybody’s got an excuse, these days.
Quinerly
@rikyrah: Tail thump and waves back at you. Cold, rainy on the coast of NC. “Snoozing” is the word for Poco.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW:
I had a real problem with copy/pasting from an article to a new comment. It just wouldn’t let me do it… as long as the comment box was empty. If I type some nonsense in first, I can then paste.
Unfortunately, I now get confused as to which nonsense I need to paste over/delete and accidentally remove what I actually meant to say.
germy
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: That’s mine and I’m sticking to it.
germy
What’s next in Bolivia?
Baud
@germy: From what I’m reading, the situation in Bolivia is more complicated than that. I’m not sure there are any good guys, so it’s just a matter of picking which bad guys you want to support.
WereBear
The humiliating part of that fascism didn’t come “wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
It sat on a golden toilet and carried a cell phone.
germy
@Baud:
Sounds like me trying to hire a contractor.
Baud
@germy: I don’t think the Bolivians have it quite that bad yet.
JPL
@WereBear: True.
lamh36
Good morning!
If there is anything we gotta remember it’s that polls don’t always show the true state of the race.
Baud
@lamh36:
I hope she becomes competitive. I’m not thrilled with how the primary has played out so far.
Ladyraxterinok
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: I lost respect for Brokaw after he became a 24/7 ad for his book The Greatest Generation.
And weren’t they ‘the greatest’ because they saw and fought the danger that was–and IS–the Nazis?
JMG
@Ladyraxterinok: You are better off thinking of Brokaw and Chuck Todd not as commentators, but as unregistered lobbyists for Comcast Corp., for whom ANY Republican administration is a priority.
Spanky
A CNN article:
Not clicking on it, though.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
“And don’t forget to make those ghoulish faces while you do!”
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
I get confused just by … just by … just … um, what was I talking about?
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly:
Is that like taking the first character, putting it last and adding “ly”?
germy
Betty Cracker
Nancy sure has Trump’s number. I also find the framing of CNN’s top story unexpectedly on point:
Baud
@germy:
debbie
@rikyrah
I love that it’s a woman of small physical stature that cuts him the most.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: slrkh :FRKHn awotu. s;th S”RFj nWALKnaw sweoiewo szsa phjhie sewn !!!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Spanky: Didn’t read the article but googled “sourtoe”. Ew. It’s a tradition of one bar in Dawson City. All I can say is that there’s probably not a lot to do in Dawson City except drink and think of bad ideas to do when you’re drunk.
When I read a lot of Jack London as a kid I learned that winters in the Yukon usually lead to an ax murder out of sheer claustrophobia and boredom.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think you have to make sure you’re in the text box rather than the visual box. For me, visual seems to be the default, but clicking over doesn’t disappear anything already there (like the person you’re replying to).
ETA: Also, if you’re in the text box, your comment will show up right away, with no refreshing needed.
OzarkHillbilly
Ummmm… CNN? That ain’t news.
Baud
@debbie: Good to know.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie:
So the visual box exists just to piss me off?
Baud
Oh yes. Text box is definitely where it’s at. Solves a lot of my bugs.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
I thought it was interesting that Trump demanded Zelensky announce his Biden investigation on CNN; I’d have thought he’d pick Fox, his fluffing tool. I wonder if this is an unspoken acknowledgement that he realizes Fox really isn’t helping him with a larger national audience.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
It sure does for me! I think we’d all have it easier if the text box was the default.
debbie
@Baud:
But can you bear to give up colored text? //
Baud
@debbie:
It’s easy enough to add color after writing the text.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Testing
I wasn’t corrupt until I met those guys!
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Interesting. I can see using the visual box for some things and the text box for others.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Did you see how that government was dressed?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Agree. But I do wish text box was the default. At least until they fix the bugs with the visual box.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
They had corruption written all over hem.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
NotMax would be proud.
debbie
@Baud:
Just by switching boxes or by having to go back in and edit?
debbie
@debbie:
Question answered by simply trying it myself.
Baud
@debbie: There may be many ways to do it, but for that comment, I typed the text in the text box and then to the visual box, highlighted the text, and applied the color. And then hit post.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: The pop up window of the reply button kinda drives me nuts more. Of course that problem is easy enough to solve by clicking on the ‘close box X’ and finishing the comment in the regular comment box.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I would be too if I had done it on purpose.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yeah, I’m not sure how the pop-up benefits us.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ha!
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I didn’t know a person’s nym would also show up in the comment box also. Thanks!
O. Felix Culpa
@OzarkHillbilly: Not news to us and other sentient beings, but it’s the first time I’ve seen a major headline acknowledge it. Baby steps in the storm….
Betty Cracker
@debbie: Trump seems to understand everything in terms of television, and he believes his sycophants watch Fox News, his enemies watch MSNBC and the mushy middle watches CNN. He’s probably not far off as far as TV viewing audiences go, but he makes the mistake of thinking since Fox has the highest cable “news” share, the majority of Americans support Trump. The truth, of course, is that most people don’t watch cable news at all.
Kayla Rudbek
On the phone with my mother last night, and she tells me that the airport has a therapy cat: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/11/15/msp-airports-therapy-cat-stitches-is-the-internets-new-favorite-feline/Therapy cat MSP airport
personally, I think that two therapy cats per TSA checkpoint should be the minimum (one for before the checkpoint, one after the checkpoint)
O. Felix Culpa
Offering a sample of one, I haven’t watched television news in years. I sometimes catch a snippet in public places where they think it’s necessary to have the infernal tv machines on non-stop (airports being prime offenders), and am reminded why I stopped. Most of my news comes from online sources, including – true confession – this here almost top 10,000 blog.
JPL
According to Real Press Secretary, no new texts in 21 hours. What’s up with that?
chris
Just trying to embed these delightful seals.
ETA: Yay!
JPL
test test
lamh36
https://media0.giphy.com/media/8pvVeFRZzEQ4E/giphy.gif
Wapiti
@debbie: I think that might tell us that smearing Biden was not about informing Trump’s base, but about pushing the lie to Biden’s base.
Joey Maloney
@Baud: Bad uncompromising, enterprising, anything but tranquilizing — Blech on, Baud!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kayla Rudbek: @chris: Therapy seals at airports would be a real winner.
Kayla Rudbek
@OzarkHillbilly: or therapy otters. http://nurturedbynature.org/2017/05/22/otters-swim-with-kids-as-therapy/ as seen here
OzarkHillbilly
@chris: Great. Now I have a new twitter hole to fall into and not be able to come up for air for hours at a time. Thanx a heap.
jeffreyw
@SFAW: Welcome to the new Balloon-Juice!
OzarkHillbilly
Holy fuck.
He’s gonna need to clean his pants.
jeffreyw
@OzarkHillbilly: Were you right clicking and the context menu didn’t offer a paste selection? If so, try control-v.
OzarkHillbilly
@jeffreyw: NOT the same as the old Balloon Juice.
Elizabelle
@chris: Love those seals. Gives me a chance to tell you all about the Marine Mammal Care Center of Los Angeles — rescues and rehabilitates seals and sea lions, 70 miles of coast from Malibu to top of Orange County (community of Seal Beach!). Located in San Pedro, CA (in hills above the Port of Los Angeles) — free to visit and just wonderful. They could take some jackal cash, if anyone is so inspired.
They have a lot of young/baby animals at any given time, because the moms leave the babies on the beach to head out in search of food — which is farther and farther out in the ocean. Their young become emaciated while awaiting mom’s return.
OzarkHillbilly
@jeffreyw: Control-v? I’ve got all I can handle just controlling my bladder.
p.a.
Obviously drumphists have ready oppo research on other Dem contenders, but wonder if he and they have descended to treason in those cases too, and how that will be exposed.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
@debbie:
I agree and think it,s kind of important to the way things went down in yesterday’s hearing that Amb Y is both super professional – calm, collected and well-versed in every showy ploy the REpubs might trot out – but.that she is also small,.attractive in an understated, real-person way, and soft-spoken. Even Gym J knew he’d look like disgusting jackass if he went with his usual ravening attack after her honest,pained recital
O. Felix Culpa
@Mary Ellen Sandahl: Agreed. It’s also possible that Trump’s witness-intimidation tweet during the hearings forced the Republicans to change their strategy midstream and be nice to her.
WereBear
I am already incandescent with so much rage that I think he was afraid some woman in the room would run up and kick him in the crotch.
Which is why I’m not in the room.
Gin & Tonic
@Mary Ellen Sandahl: I have friends who have worked with her. She may be soft-spoken, but she is a real badass. Career FSO’s were (privately) cheering her performance.
Matt McIrvin
Did Elizabeth Warren do some kind of walkback on “Medicare for All”? Left Twitter now declaring her a garbage person.
O. Felix Culpa
In addition to Nancy Smash, Adam Schiff is another American hero. It’s so nice to see smart, competent people in Congress. Schiff is doing a fantastic job managing the hearings and the Democrats have maintained decorum while methodically laying out the facts of the case. They care about the Constitution and American values and it shows. As the header says, proud to be a Democrat.
jeffreyw
@OzarkHillbilly:
I see his problem. He wasn’t cutting on the line. Jeez, I learned that in kindergarten.
germy
I decided to see what one of the dumbest people on the internet has to say about Day 2 of the impeachment hearings:
https://clarissasblog.com/2019/11/15/yovanovitch/
O. Felix Culpa
Why?
germy
@O. Felix Culpa:
Just wanted to step outside my bubble.
chris
@Elizabelle: Thanks, glad to know that some people are trying to help.
Gin & Tonic
@germy:
Wow. Truly could only have been written by someone who knows not a word of either.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: And now you need a shower.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
A bubble bath.
sdhays
@SFAW: Win XP?? Now I’m wondering if you’re just a really clever Russian bot! ////
chris
@Gin & Tonic: Masha Mash!
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: Satby has what you need.
O. Felix Culpa
@Gin & Tonic: My retired FSO friends are cheering her as well, publicly, because they can.
zhena gogolia
@Mary Ellen Sandahl:
A friend of mine pointed out her beautiful Hermès scarf, something I would never notice.
O. Felix Culpa
@germy: Better you than me. :)
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
Did you not know that Ukrainians and Russians do not feel human emotions?
What a despicable piece of sophistry that is, the whole thing.
Just Chuck
@Matt McIrvin: Half the lefty world hates EW because she was once a Republican and she hasn’t set herself on fire in atonement for it.
chris
AOC lights up an idiot. She’s so good at this!
(Link test)
Elizabelle
I am proud to be a Democrat too. It is a reasoned choice, and not a religion.
frosty
Same story here. My main straight news source is the Grauniad. Otherwise it’s this here almost top 10,000 blog, including all you jackal commenters, and a few others. I haven’t deserted blogs for Twitter, which seems to me to be an enormous time sink of not very much content.
PS visual comments work for me, I haven’t seen any need for the text yet but it’s nice to have both options.
PPS the site rebuild is SUCH a relief after dealing with the baling wire and spit old site for so long. And Recent Comments are back!
kindness
I remember when ‘real’ progressives questioned Nancy’s being given the Speakership again. Ours is a more diverse party and the ‘moderates’ won and Nancy got the post. Please forgive my use of ‘real’ & ‘moderates’ as they don’t really properly describe both groups but you know…..
Love me some Nancy shade. Trump is going to go nuts. There isn’t enough popcorn. Sadly though the reactionary actions from Trump are already starting. His pardoning those military guys was to try to reclaim the narrative. It’s only going to get even more reactionary as I don’t think Trump is going to control the news cycle for a while. Buckle up. Stay safe.
debbie
@Joey Maloney:
That implies shrewdness. I’m not willing to assume that. //
PPCLI
@zhena gogolia: It’s well known that part of Dostoevski’s genius was that he could write Crime and Punishment, Karamazov, The Idiot, The Insulted and the Injured, Dream of a Ridiculous Man, etc. in a language with no words referring to despair, suffering, or indeed any human emotion beyond anger and aggression.
the Conster
I was on a conference call with Nancy Pelosi on Thursday night, because I’m on #TeamPelosi. I don’t think anyone fully understands what she’s done, and what she’s doing. Her topline message was about supporting the DREAMERS, but she ran the meeting as various heads of activist groups updated her on what they were doing and planning, and her grasp of all their work, their names, her legislative agenda, her deep faith and her determination to save this country and its democracy. She’s a historic figure, and I couldn’t be more grateful for her. All of the IMPEACHMENTNOW screamers who insisted she didn’t know what she was doing, or were in a plot with Trump (looking at you, weirdo creep Sarah Kendzior) need to apologize to her, and never opine again.
debbie
@WereBear:
Hence the standing ovation.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
I hope that means she wasn’t really intimidated when she read that transcript. It was horrible to think that would happen.
debbie
@germy:
Really, Kellyanne Clone? Bitch.
ETA: Who is this person?
Jinchi
Who cares if somebody else gets in trouble, right Rudy?
Is there any Republican left who isn’t a self-centered ass?
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
I had to go back and look. I don’t follow fashion anymore, but it was a nice touch. Certainly better than the Trump mens’/boys’ crappily constructed suits.
PPCLI
@zhena gogolia:
@germy:
“because her boss was mean to her”.
She was living and working in a world where people who were obstacles regularly were killed. Openly and with apparent impunity. Often horrifically. For example, by being doused with sulfuric acid. Or poisoned with plutonium. At the hands of Putin agents, or sociopathic thugs in the Russian mob, not that there is much difference between the two. And when Deadbeat Donald was asked about this, his response was just to say that the US did the same thing, so it was no big deal.s
When a Putin-worshiping president who is up to his ears in connections to Russian + Ukrainian mobsters and amoral oligarchs marks you out openly as an obstacle to his corrupt intentions, as “bad news”, as someone to whom “bad things” are soon “going to happen”. That is not a human resources issue. Anyone who knows what is going on will regard that as a threat.
Kay
The Politico legal affairs reporter has apparently missed the central point of two days of testimony.
They’re not listening to the witnesses. The public would really be better off if they just printed the testimony in the newspaper. They’re not adding value- they’re subtracting it.
zhena gogolia
@debbie:
She had to have felt some fear, given the tactics of Trump’s buddy Vladimir Vladimirovich. Feeling fear doesn’t mean you aren’t a badass.
zhena gogolia
@PPCLI:
You said it better than I did!
Matt McIrvin
@Just Chuck: Yeah, but the implication seemed to be that it was something specific she said about MfA. I know there’s been a lot of angst here about her choosing to die on that hill; was wondering if she’d changed her position. (Or if she’s going to end up getting heat for being for it and against it at the same time, or being a flip-flopper, or or or…)
Jinchi
@Just Chuck:
Not sure I agree with your math there.
O. Felix Culpa
@Kay: Sadly, they seem vested in not listening to the witnesses, in order to create their own false equivalencies and narrative. Assuming these are reasonably intelligent, educated people who could do better, the question is why were they choosing not to?
O. Felix Culpa
@O. Felix Culpa: Tense correction since edit function disappeared on my comment: The question is why are they choosing not to.
ETA: Curious, the edit function has reappeared. Time delay? Several refreshes required? Android, Chrome.
japa21
@Kay: Not sure what your complaint here is. The guy is saying exactly what Schiff said yesterday. Yes, the President has the right, but the motive and ways it is handled are very important, which is similar to the U.S. Attorneys matter.
He is not minimizing it. Could have been said better, but that, I think, is the gist.
Kay
In a trial, you have to listen to the witnesses. That is why they’re there. We could craft a narrative that makes this the US attorney scandal without any witnesses appearing at all.
In court hearings, a fair amount of time, you’ll listen to the testimony of a witness and then counsel starts questioning that witness and you realize counsel didn’t listen to anything the witness said. That’s because counsel prepared to hear one thing and then heard another- but didn’t adjust at all because it’s important to counsel’s case that witness say X so counsel can say Y. If witness doesn’t say X counsel just plows ahead as if witness did.
That’s the media coverage of this hearing. That’s what is sounds like.
Elizabelle
@Kay: Just plowing ahead is Andrea Mitchell Greenspan’s style too. Used to be amazed at her takeaway of an Obama speech that, apparently, only one of us watched.
They should not be able to get away with that.
Kay
@japa21:
She’s not objecting to the fact that she got fired. Her testimony was about WHY she got fired. She’s not there to comment on Donald Trump’s management skills, or the proper way to fire a diplomat. She’s telling the story of what happened in Ukraine and the Trump Administration during this period and relating facts about the Trump Administration’s subversion of US foreign policy to benefit their own political careers and money making schemes.
I’m glad the witnesses put so much work into preparing their testimony. Reading the coverage of their testimony no one in the public will know what happened in Ukraine, but at least we have the witness account. We can just read that.
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: What the fuck does this horseshit even mean??
Hey, I didn’t have to double-clutch the reply button to get your nym! More progress!
Kay
@Elizabelle:
The best trial judges aren’t great talkers or writers- it’s nice if they are but it’s not what makes them good. What makes them the best among others is that they’re good listeners. Open. Treat testimony as if there may be something to be learned. It’s really hard work.
Miss Bianca
@JPL: better than having it go off at 4 in the morning because spiders have built a nest in it, ASK ME HOW I KNOW!
Blech!
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: Ha ha!
Man, I hope Kamala catches some fire. I am starting to think she’s exactly what we need after this white trash dumpster fire of an administration.
Suzanne
For reals? I never heard this….
Of course, I have been completely tied up with baby stuff, job search stuff, deadlines, etc. for the last few weeks.
I actually caught some of the impeachment hearing yesterday while I was working. I found Yovanovitch very compelling, so I went over to BrightFart to see how she was received by the lunatics. As you would expect. It was ever thus.
Immanentize
@Miss Bianca: What the fuck does this horseshit even mean??
It means Rude-Ee! lied like roadkill to the FBI and he is trying to lie again to get out of the charge of lying to the FBI.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: I swear to fucking Christ I have no clue why you read that let alone post it here.
chopper
@OzarkHillbilly:
somebody give the teleprompter a swift kick.
Matt McIrvin
@Suzanne: Yeah, right before the Ukraine story broke, Sarah Kendzior started saying that impeachment hadn’t happened because Pelosi was actively trying to protect Trump, and implying it had something to do with campaign contributions from Russian oligarchs.
Mnemosyne
@Matt McIrvin:
Warren recently released a plan explaining what the interim steps of getting to MfA would be, which is of course THE WORST BETRAYAL OF ALL TIME!!!1!
She didn’t declare that she would implement MfA by fiat on day one of her presidency, so she’s a crook and a liar just like every other Democrat, QED.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
I feel that some variation on “Der Fuhrer’s Face” is not only possible, but obligatory. We can’t have Spike Jones himself, but… c’mon, folks.