BREAKING: House Judiciary panel pushes vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump to Friday. Follow our full coverage. https://t.co/I5t8PCsUD4
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 13, 2019
Abruptly?
Should Nadler have spoken more slowly? https://t.co/c5AMKHHHjO
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 13, 2019
BROKEN: The entire Republican Party…
This pretty much sums it up. pic.twitter.com/Z7VIdf4QYA
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 13, 2019
Collins is mad that, after a 14-hour day, they have to nap for 10 hours before voting. This performative outrage comes complete with arm flapping and vein popping, but bear in mind that he had previously scheduled this tantrum for 11:30 p.m. and it needed to be about something.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 13, 2019
Louie Gohmert is crying… literally crying pic.twitter.com/6cWZ1CMiM1
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 12, 2019
He’s annoyed because it takes away their “dark of night” vote
— Lisa Dudczyk (@Lisaonthebeach) December 13, 2019
After days of the Republicans on the committee engaging a whole variety of dilatory tactics, pranks, delays, bullshit show votes, grotesque contortions of the truth, stompy-foot temper tantrums, and spittle-flecked ranting, NOW Doug Collins demands the majority play by the rules.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 13, 2019
Let’s draw this out all night they said. That will own the libs they said. pic.twitter.com/5kTivBlMmt
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
Just hysterical that they had their Fox and Friends “middle of the night” speech all read to go and they have to be back at work instead.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
Definitely complain that you have to work on a Friday guys. That’s the blue jeans and beer stuff.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
For once, I have to whole-heartedly agree with a Never Trumper.
For those of you who think impeachment should have waited, imagine three more months of hearings like this one. Every day. The Republicans were never going to do their duty to the Constitution, and would have turned every moment into a massive shitshow until we were worn out.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 13, 2019
dmsilev
But now Fox and Friends can have live coverage of the impeachment vote! And Trump can watch them watching it!
Maybe he’ll have a stroke during the call-in.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Brian Williams is laboring to paint this as an own-goal by Dems because Collins went on TV and pitched a nutty, but Dems went home. He seems to genuinely believe that no one went on his cameras to offer some platitudes is a weakness in the eyes of the American people. He’s going to start talking about his pickup truck soon.
Now going to John “Pizzazz” Allen, who is saying, “Um… duh. It’s midnight and they went home”. And making the point that the GOP obviously had their “voted in the DEAD OF NIGHT!” talking point ready.
dmsilev
WaPo: “Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) called the decision “Stalinesque.” “
Still defending his “Stupidest Person in Congress” title.
Kelly
Tom Nichols pinned tweet says something I knew but couldn’t put to words.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@dmsilev:
It really is amazing that Trump hasn’t stroked out by now. Of course that mysterious trip to Walter Reed could have been indicative of some medical problem.
I haven’t seen any recent pictures of him, but has Trump noticeably aged at all since he took office? The office is infamous for aging the holders. Early on, I speculated that since Trump does so little work, the office would not age him as much as it has his predecessors
Jay
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: As I wrote downstairs:
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s just angry the vote didn’t occur during his time slot, denying him the chance to opine of its significance with fellow bore Jon Meacham
piratedan
@dmsilev: Stalinesque would have meant that Congressman Gohmert would have suddenly found inspiration to be part of the public works department in Fargo as a positive outcome versus a bullet to the brain pan and then being rolled into a ditch.
I don’t mind them being partisan fucktards because I fully expect them to be partisan fucktards but Dems aren’t advocating shooting or disappearing their political opponents. The fact that they allow this continuous cretinous stream of hyperbole makes me wish for a time where it is fun to fantasize about them being so just so I don;t have to face an endless stream of lies and bullshit emanating from the mouths of GOP politicians.
NotoriousJRT
@dmsilev:
Oh, they will retire his number when he finally is put out to pasture or otherwise exits the political stage.
Mary G
Yes, I know he’s an untrustworthy ratf*cker, but this is funny:
HumboldtBlue
Owning the Libs Kentucky style. Matt Bevin pardons some murderers.
Yarrow
@Mary G: Heh. Funny. I also thought this was a good idea:
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: Don’t forget the kiddie rapist!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yarrow:
….Wasn’t that what the Repubs wanted for their talking points?
feebog
Weren’t these morons pissing and moaning that things were moving too fast and the impeachment process needed to be slowed down just a few days ago?
piratedan
@feebog: you see, there was a 10 minute window between 10:42pm and 10:52pm that would have been just perfect according to the GOP, but the Dems missed it, so now everything is apparently a travesty of failed norms, followed procedures, projection accusations and failed DVR settings that make sense in some alternative timeline where there is no energy crisis because everything runs on GOP bullshit.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
Recently, there was was a GOP candidate that always runs in a safe Dem district who was whining about how “men are mistreated in this country”. Can’t remember who it was, or if it was because they were accused of sexual assault.
Seeing MRA talking points come out of Republican mouths so unsubtlely is wild
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It’d mean they’d have to stay in DC, normally Friday is the weekend for the House.
mrmoshpotato
Is Nadler’s throwing all the Russthuglicans into a gulag for the night?
JFC is Gohmert a fucking asshole, and an idiot to boot.
Mandalay
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
Perhaps the worst of the lot, because he’s obviously aware that he’s a pompous windbag. He’s constantly spewing boring shit about what someone nobody has heard of said in 1794 as though it’s really significant and relevant to what’s going on today.
He ain’t dumb. He knows it isn’t, but he still camera-hogs with his same tedious schtick week after week.
Mary G
This can’t be real, can it?
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Meh. Not funny enough to think Rick Wilson shouldn’t shove it.
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Navarro?
If it’s Navarro, he hung with Nazis, then pissed them off, got busted,
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-arrested-violating-restraining-order-filed-nancy-pelosis-republican-challenger-1476242%3famp=1
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Oh lol. I can’t believe I missed that
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Is it more cringe worthy with the sound on? :)
Yarrow
@mrmoshpotato: SO much worse. It’s Maroon 5’s “Moves like Jagger” but some guy says “Bloomberg” where “Jagger” should be in the song. It’s like a SNL skit it’s so bad. Is it real?
Yarrow
@Yarrow: Oh, no. It’s real. This guy is an intern on the Bloomberg campaign.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
That’s him.
From the article:
Why? Because he can’t beat her in a fair election?
This guy sounds like a fucking nut job. He should be in jail. And should probably get a psych evaluation too.
mrmoshpotato
@Yarrow: Oooo, I’ll have to watch it again – with the sound still off, and not actually watching it.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yarrow:
Jesus Christ. There’s not enough money in the world that could get me to do that. Not even Bloomberg has that kind of money.
Like, I realize 2011 isn’t that long ago, but come on, that’s a pretty old song. If being cool is what Bloomberg is trying for, he should try using a song slightly more contemporary. And I really can’t believe that Adam Levine and Maroon 5 actually signed off on letting the Bloomberg campaign use their song. Unless it’s considered fair use, I guess
Geoduck
@mrmoshpotato: Yeah, the man can certainly turn a phrase, but you know that the instant The Shiatgibbon is gone (however that finally happens), he’ll be right back sticking those masterful shivs of his into Democrats.
Fair Economist
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Seems a pretty open and shut parody exception. It’s not like anybody would actually be impressed with Bloomberg’s moves.
Yarrow
I missed this earlier. Potential good news.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@mrmoshpotato: most people watching Fox News think “stalinesque” is Tex-Mex barbecue.
Yarrow
I guess his dementia is getting worse.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Fair Economist:
Yeah, it’s definitely fair use. Bloomberg should fire whoever came up with this
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yarrow:
If true, I have to wonder how long the WH/GOP can hope to hide that (to the point where he can’t even function on his own), especially with how leaky this WH is.
Absent dementia, this signals to me absolute weakness on Trump’s part
Yarrow
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Dementia patients will often be fine for awhile and then have a sudden drop in their skills and abilities. Since debates are still months away he could be noticeably worse by then. If it is dementia.
mrmoshpotato
@Geoduck: Yup. Never Trust A Never Trumper
mrmoshpotato
@Yarrow: Tell him the debates will be moderated by Kathy Griffin and Rosie O’Donnell and……..Hillary Clinton!
lgerard
@Mary G:
Pffft
Nowhere near as lame as this
12 Days Of Trump, A Christmas Song For Americans In 2018
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@mrmoshpotato: “Which brings us to Jennifer Rubin today, who today decide it was time to take a few gratuitous potshots at Elizabeth Warren for earning a middle-class living over the course of the past 20 years”
Warren’s net worth is $12,000,000 dollars. How is that middle class?
clay
@Yarrow: Meh. He made the same threats in 2016 for both the primary and general debates. It’s some sort of power play, I guess. But he loves being on teevee too much to skip them.
mrmoshpotato
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: Oh?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democrat.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think it’s fine to be a wealthy Dem like FDR, RFK, Warren, etc. But Driftglass shouldn’t defend her as middle class.
Amir Khalid
@Yarrow:
“Cower, you lame ones, before the awesomeness of The Bloomberg Campaign Interns Dance!”
I’m thinking, nope.
opiejeanne
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: It wasn’t concerned with her overall current wealth, it was a column with much hand-wringing over the money she earned working privately over a 20 year period, which amounted to something like $80k a year.
opiejeanne
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: She didn’t. She defended the money she earned over a specific period of time. Lumped together it was a breath-taking number, until you divide it by the years she worked earning it. It then became a very middle-class number
opiejeanne
@Amir Khalid: Even I’m not that white, and I’m so white I’m nearly transparent
OzarkHillbilly
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: Honest question, what do you consider middle class? I would say enough income/wealth to be secure but I don’t even know what that is anymore. I thought my parents were middle class, and after the death of my mother’s parents and receiving a substantial inheritance even bordering on wealthy if not. Yet my old man’s Alzheimers drained those savings fairly quickly in 4 years even with long term health care insurance.
I got what I consider a sizable inheritance (I was able to pay off our house) but it would have been gone if the old man had hung on for another 6-12 months.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: 12 million is what Republicans call middle class when they’re talking about middle class tax cuts.
OzarkHillbilly
@opiejeanne: I did the math: $58,000 a year. I’m not sure what her salary was as a Harvard professor but I’d guess it wasn’t shabby. Still, that doesn’t exactly put her in the “filthy rich” territory.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, and I don’t really know what a Harvard professor earned over that period. I think she’s released her returns but I haven’t paid that much attention.
It sounds like a lot of money if you add up what you made over the last 30 years of your working life, much less impressive when you divide it by that 30..
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@opiejeanne: The article said:
“the figures released Sunday show that nearly all of the money was made from cases filed after she got her job at Harvard in 1995. (Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012.)
The income includes about $212,000 for representing Travelers Indemnity Co. in 2009, and $190,000 for what her campaign described as representing a chain of department stores owned by PA Bergner & Co. in the mid-1990s.”
That’s not 80K per year.
The spin of the WaPo article wasn’t about the yearly average, but that she worked for corporations. There’s nothing wrong with working for a company and Warren has long insisted she supporter of responsible capitalism. They say there’s a contradiction, when there is none.
But Driftglass doesn’t defend her on those stronger grounds, rather the defense is the salaries were “a middle-class living”. That’s inaccurate.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@OzarkHillbilly: The Pew Research Center defines the US middle class as those earning two-thirds to twice the median household income, which was $60,336 in 2017, meaning middle class Americans were earning about $40,425 to $120,672.
Msb
Nadler and the other Ds had done enough. Collins stormed off, and Gohmert cried.
maybe the vote will make Gym Jordan cry.
Chris Johnson
He’s a billionaire. Presumably, he stole it.
Jim
Mr Collins is doing a Screamin` Baby Trump . Sad .