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Jan 6 Hearing – Day 8 on Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern
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Spanky
Nice to go into recess with Hawley running away. That’s what the commentators are teeing up on.
Mike E
@Spanky: Hawling ass!
Baud
@Mike E:
Heh. Perfect.
Spanky
@Mike E: Nice! We’ll probably see variations on that for days.
Steeplejack
Nice dunk on Hawley—with slo-mo replay!
JWR
@Mike E:
Burning blubber.
HumboldtBlue
@Mike E:
Boom!
Also, as I mentioned downstairs, it’s pretty amazing Water Girl can stitch together three different iterations of a 20-year-old website with all its attendant data and detail, and we can’t recover deleted texts from the USSS?
Scout211
This is the first of the hearings that Mr. Scout has watched. He is very impressed, as well he should be. He said, “They’re doing a good job of nailing him, aren’t they?”
I need to watch Hawley running away again . . .and again . . . There will be memes, for sure.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike E: You just made it onto Twitter.
Gigi (formerly matryoshka)
The whole thing about the missing SS texts is weird. I work for a big corporation that changes and updates hard- and software at regular intervals and somehow they manage to retain every IM, email, file, and document of thousands of employees.
Also, the White House photographer isn’t allowed to take photos? No explanation for that.
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus: it seems “hawling ass” is trending….
Roger Moore
@HumboldtBlue:
There are so many ways to fail if you don’t want to succeed.
Baud
Stronge language.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Strong language! Now they’re speaking Balloon-Juice-ese.
Scout211
Melania was “unaware” so don’t blame her, okay? LOL
zhena gogolia
fuck his entire legacy
Yeah, I agree
Spanky
F-word! Drink!
zhena gogolia
@Spanky: Kinzinger and Raskin never bleep
Ken
@Scout211: How very Marie Antoinette.
JWR
Funny how CBS is allowed to use the word “fuck” on live TV, but Stephen Colbert, et all, have to bleep their reportage.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Scout211: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
cool story babe
Go back to Slovenia, you little twit.
zhena gogolia
What about the President?
Dangerman
@Scout211: what the fuck is it with that family and rugs (Donald seems to be proud of the one on his head)
Sure Lurkalot
I need ANOTHER SHOWER. Fuck, they are all trash people.
OK. Another sip of wine. Breathe.
citizen dave
Maybe part of Kinzinger’s calculus is trying to get his own family members out of the cult. So he goes with the full language.
piratedan
so….. Pat, essentially everyone in the staff was appalled except for the Fat Bastard himself and yet…..
here we are and none of these folks offered any assistance during Impeachment #2
Jim, Foolish Literalist
amid all this horror, that isn’t over yet, it will never not be funny to me that Junior new his daddy wouldn’t take his calls
zhena gogolia
@piratedan: Right.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: Just to be clear, I did not do the stitching together. That was the site developers. I just helped with prep so stuff could be merged and now I’m helping with the cleanup.
tom
Reposted from below:
heh. Hawley is trending on twitter.
raven
Motherfuckers!
Geminid
@HumboldtBlue: The Secret Service has its own office specializing in digital communications that not only was capable of preserving messages but also would be good at erasing them.
Don’t know if it’s true but I read today that the inquiry into these missing messages has become a criminal investigation.
WaterGirl
Just tourists at the capital.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
I don’t mean to be shallow but Ms Matthews needs to ease up on the bronzer.
Spanky
@WaterGirl: Motherfucking trash.
Layer8Problem
@WaterGirl: Rambunctious, high-spirited tourists.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@WaterGirl: This is basically like how my family acted when we visited the Pearl Harbor memorial.
Narya
O Brave Sir Robin Hawley…
zhena gogolia
Kev in the barrel!
dmsilev
raven
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Yea, when I go to the Wall too.
Scout211
Violence/death/destruction/insurrection vs “giving the media a win.”
WTF?!
raven
@Scout211:
“giving the media a win.”Owning the libs.
Scout211
@raven: yup
Old Dan and Little Ann
They’re all fucking traitors.
MisterForkbeard
Jesus, Jared is such a fucking terrible person. He’s even terrible to listen to.
zhena gogolia
“scared and begging for help”
Spanky
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Yup.
Scout211
Ewww Jared. Did you have to tell us you got the call out of the shower naked?! What is wrong with these people?
TS
What a disaster is McCarthy – supporting trump after all this
zhena gogolia
Joe baby! Finally a normal human being appears.
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
Uh-huh, your wizardry cannot be hidden or doubted.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: those are so funny I’ll allow the inclusion of Kate Bush, who I hope is making bank from that TV show
Immanentize
I just realized why Kushner looks so bad all the time. He has botoxed his forehead into permanent paralysis.
Layer8Problem
And where do all these concerned, appalled Republicans stand now?
Scout211
@Immanentize: And his mouth doesn’t seem to actually close. It’s in a permanent sneer. Yep. Lots of fillers.
Layer8Problem
@Scout211: He was born sneering.
He and his wife look like they have no fingerprints, not a wrinkle or a line between them.
NeenerNeener
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: And to be equally shallow, I really like her dress.
Gigi (formerly matryoshka)
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: She probably got a family & friends deal from Trump Cosmetics.
MisterForkbeard
Man, this film of Trump trying to make his video is just painful. Again: What an awful fucking human being
ETA: Seriously, he basically says they’re right to riot and attack and overthrow the country but not to “play into the hands” of Democrats. What a fucking monster.
Steeplejack
God, this Trump outtake. 🤢
tom
Trump is such a fucking liar.
HumboldtBlue
Jesus Fucking Christ watching this asshole speak makes me want to do horrible things!
Omnes Omnibus
That might be the nicest thing any could say about him.
citizen dave
Jared: “The President was basically retiring for the day” He worked? Ever?
I want to watch every T voter watch that and then tell me why they voted for the POS.
zhena gogolia
Pigs, pigs, pigs
Steeplejack
I wish somebody someday would muss up Pat Cipollone’s hair. Really fuck it up. Maybe accidentally pull out a tuft.
zhena gogolia
Wow, TFG is making McConnell look good
HumboldtBlue
@Geminid:
It has become criminal, DHS IG stated so and agents have lawyered up.
Scout211
@zhena gogolia: And this is making Pence look good, too. Darn!
zhena gogolia
Matthews seems to have some small shred of integrity.
skerry
@HouseGOP tweeted “This is all heresy”
Spanky
“We love you. You’re special.”
The Mr. Rogers from hell.
zhena gogolia
Sheeple!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Go home, zhena.
Mike E
Matthews being unequivocal… good.
We’re getting to the wrap-up, it’s been another strong and damning presentation.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: You’re not the boss of me.
raven
@Mike E: And laying the groundwork with her early statements was crucial.
Steeplejack
Josh Hawley’s slo-mo scamper already trending on Twitter with different sound clips. Let’s do the classic Benny Hill.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: According to the chart Baud put out earlier today, he is, in fact, your direct supervisor. Didn’t you get the email?
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
LOL Rudy, you dipshit
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: I missed it during the BJ blackout.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m still waiting for the TPS reports.
Spanky
And a reminder of the indictment from the turtleman.
zhena gogolia
Chip roy with the mask under his nose
Mike E
@raven: and, contrast her words with Turd 187’s deputy campaign chief being called out for his mealy mouthed words and needing prodding to characterize these shitty rioters more appropriately.
Ramona Rosario
@citizen dave: Word!
HumboldtBlue
I have a sense the TV ratings/viewership are gonna be up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I acknowledge no superiors. I am a rock. I am an island.
Ramona Rosario
@citizen dave: Word!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
“No man is an island…he’s a peninsula.” – Jefferson Airplane
HumboldtBlue
“The so-called clown car”, well fuck, that’s what it was. Just far more fucking nasty and traitorous.
Baud
This guy thinks really highly of himself.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: I am going with Paul Simon.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Ever been to Washington?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Not surprisingly. Airplane ain’t for everyone.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I’m spoiled by Biden.
MisterForkbeard
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve clarified elsewhere that he’s an “absolute shitbird of human being”, which is really just more on the nose. Though “Traitor” works too, I think.
Scout211
@Baud: He’s all “let me tell you how important I am.”
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Yeah, he’s not typical.
dmsilev
@Steeplejack: So far, the Rocky theme music is my favorite.
Mike E
“Ayatolljah once and ayatolljah twice…”
Baud
Idiot. We’re in decline because of your party!!!
piratedan
@Baud: well, I’m sure he was concerned about all of the great work that they had done in Foreign policy would be in danger… or else Putin’s check had yet to clear….
Omnes Omnibus
@raven:
I prefer the Great Society.
Scout211
@dmsilev: I like the Benny Hill one, myself.
Anotherlurker
This Pottinger clown still has a brown ring on his neck from having his head up trump’s ass.
I intensely dislike this frat boy asshole.
HumboldtBlue
Kinzinger was president of the Campus Republicans who repeatedly got his ass handed to him by Lambda, Lambda, Lambda.
Sweet Jesus beating orphans with the bones of their dead workhouse comrades, these outtakes are fucking gobsmackingly enraging!
raven
@Anotherlurker:
A 2018 Politico profile described Pottinger as “a fairly typical conservative internationalist” who “has never been a Trump-style #MAGA conservative” and who donated to both Democrats and Republicans.[19] In 2017, he was hired as a member of the U.S. National Security Council of the administration of Donald Trump.[20][21][22] Michael Flynn, whom Pottinger had worked for in the military, made him the NSC’s Asia director, and he remained in his position under H. R. McMaster and John Bolton.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Fucking a. Watching him record that speech. I want to scream.
Baud
“I don’t want to say the election is over.”
Baud
“Yesterday is a hard word for me.”
MisterForkbeard
This next trump clip is just fucking awful. Again: What an awful shitbird of a human being.
Also, look at him struggle and yell at the camera.
zhena gogolia
Ugh, these outtakes
Layer8Problem
My god, what an asshole.
Ken
“Cause I don’t shower in my swimming suit, like in high school. Not at home anyway, obviously the gym is different….”
zhena gogolia
Interesting he uses Nixon as an example instead of Gore. I wonder if he’ll mention that.
ETA: Okay, here it is.
Anonymous At Work
Can Democrats get equal time after Pottinger’s free advertising for neo-conservative authoritarianism?
mrmoshpotato
I’m impressed with (and concerned for) you who have watched all of these hearings. I’m incandescent with rage right now.
Baud
Nixon!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Oy, Pottinger’s a tiresome dick
Scout211
He must be trying out for a big league think tank right now on camera.
Steeplejack
Not sure it’s good to let this witness freestyle it.
ETA: Pottinger! Couldn’t remember his name. Cut him off!
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: He’s already at Hudson.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack: They seem to think he’s helpful. I don’t get it. I’ll take Cassidy any day. Or this Matthews gal is better.
Baud
“Before God.”
MisterForkbeard
@Steeplejack: Pottinger is just fucking around now. “Let me talk about how great America is in a really stilted way”.
Scout211
@Steeplejack: There’s a point in there somewhere . . .
zhena gogolia
@MisterForkbeard: Yeah!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Maybe he speaks to a certain class of wingnuts?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
listening to him drone on, I take comfort in knowing The Beast probably threw his ice cream (two scoops!) at the wall over the way he looked in those outtakes
Layer8Problem
@Omnes Omnibus: He landed nicely after sticking his neck out resigning.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Maybe.
Mike E
@Scout211: pittinger’s furiously digging for that pony!
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
“they knew his heart”
objection, assumes facts not in evidence
Spanky
@Steeplejack: No no! Let him talk! The country needs to hear what these True Americans sound like.
I’m getting a real Colonel Flag vibe from this guy, for those old enough to remember. I think there was a character in Catch 22 who was the same.
Anotherlurker
@raven: Him and those like him turn my stomach. I grew up as the offspring of cooks, maids and gardeners who worked on North Shore L.I. Estates. He reminds me of the self entitled offspring who were born on 3rd and think they hit a triple.
To my bartender’s instinct, he is a phony asshole who will pay his tab with a $10.00 bill and then tell you he gave you a $50.00.
Enough of this ex-Marine , Oliver North patriotic oath bullshit. If he worked for trump for 4 years, he approved of what was going on around him. The asshole is only trying to cover his Nazi ass.
piratedan
and as we hear all of these GOP leaders speaking about Trump’s culpability in the aftermath of J6, then not even six hours later, they refuse to certify the results and then go all scorched earth on everything Democratic, every opportunity to actually divest themselves of Trump, rejected out of hand.
Mike E
Luria laying out Turd 187’s pathology at the close.
Doug R
Nice to see January 2021 Kevin McCarthy speaking the truth.
I wonder what July 2022 Kevin McCarthy will say tomorrow?
citizen dave
I think a wonderful jackal pointed it out, but we should never forget or forgive that Biden-Harris were denied the normal transition activities.
zhena gogolia
Kinzinger bringing it home!
MisterForkbeard
This diatribe from Kinzinger is really good.
Mike E
Stain…. out, damned spot.
Scout211
Dereliction of duty. Thank you Rep Kinzinger.
Baud
“The elephant in the room.”
Good choice of words.
Layer8Problem
@piratedan: What led them to go from “this is bad, very bad” to “no can certify, because reasons?”
Steeplejack
@Anotherlurker:
Plus he worked for Mike Flynn in the Army before that. He must have already been aware of the shit he was getting into.
citizen dave
One would expect that a shitstain would be left over after the four year shitshow.
Fair Economist
I’d gotten the feeling this hearing was building up to really bringing down the hammer, and Kinzinger is doing it.
HumboldtBlue
Now I know who Rep. Luria reminds me of in timing, timbre and speech, Kristen Schaal.
SamIAm
That speech from Kinzinger was awesome. Even with the “liberal media” quip. I guess some habits die hard
Steeplejack
@Doug R:
The same as he says about everything else. “I didn’t see it, so I don’t have any comment.”
Fair Economist
Ooh, and now it’s Luria’s turn. Nice tag team they’ve got going there.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Doug R: basically
SamIAm
@HumboldtBlue:
YES!
JWR
@citizen dave:
I remember the Shrub admin partially blaming 9-11 on Gore for forcing a shortened transition.
HumboldtBlue
More to come!
piratedan
@Layer8Problem: my thoughts…. who made the calculation to circle those political wagons and who pulled those strings to make that happen. Sorry to go so conspiracy theory, but guys like McCarthy are free of independent thought and are but reeds in search of a wind.
Steeplejack
I’ll be interested to see what the MSNBC gaggle makes of this hearing.
MisterForkbeard
@HumboldtBlue: The best…. is yet to come
Also, this from Cheney is great. Shaming the “50, 60 and 70 year old men who hide behind executive privilege”.
zhena gogolia
Matthews didn’t annoy me. Pottinger was horrible.
Spanky
Oh! Liz! Snap!
Mike E
“Good job, you two, but Cassidy trumped you both.”
tom
“50, 60, and 70 year old men”. Golly, Liz.
zhena gogolia
5th Avenue!
JoyceH
What I love is the juxtaposition of the Hawley clip and the notice of new hearings in September. So every Republican in Congress has two months to wonder how they came across on the security cameras on 1/6.
Geminid
@Baud: Pottinger probably appeals to Hew Hewitt types, Wall Street Journal Republicans. In fact, Pottinger’s boss, Robert C. O’Brian, is an old buddy of Hewitt’s.
HumboldtBlue
@SamIAm:
Right?
@MisterForkbeard:
Right?
Cheryl Rofer: NatSec Twitter not impressed with former Deputy NatSec Advisor
Gavel that shit, Liz. I almost want to applaud.
Anotherlurker
OMG! Liz is moving in close with a butcher knife, in her summation. I still despise and mis-trust her, but she knows how to inflict some serious slash and burn.
JWR
Did Cheney just pull a “Cipollone” on Lil’ Billly Barr?
Geminid
@Geminid: Now I’m wondering where Robert O’Brien was January 6. Did trump’s National Security Advisor know it would be a good day not to be in Washington?
zhena gogolia
Now we know why she’s wearing white.
Scout211
I like this Cheney speech. Today I like her.
Spanky
“See youuuu
In Septemmmmmber”
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Let this be a lesson, folks: Live your life in such a way that Liz Cheney never sets her sights on you.
JWR
Wow, 2 hours 45 minutes, and I’m ready for more.
Tinare
@Scout211: She is so very good at this.
Tinare
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: 👍
scav
@Baud: I too enjoyed the elephant detail being worked in.
SpaceUnit
If nothing else tonight’s presentation should ensure that Trump is tangled up in about a bazillion civil lawsuits for the rest of his miserable life. Negligence has been established.
Mike E
Cheney, doing the Great GOP Pivot there, overtly flapping those white sheets of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the political wind. Meh
citizen dave
Turned over to rage watch ABC and sure enough fucking Chris Christie is 2nd talking head, apparently from his house. Fuck. Saying he tried to call trump 3 times that afternoon. Fuck him and ABC.
Dangerman
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
I wonder if she has a spot picked out to display Hawleys removed balls.
HinTN
@raven: But that is a perfectly hilarious transition into a great song.
Misterpuff
@Ken: Jared is a Never Nude.
HumboldtBlue
@JWR:
I just texted my sister that I may remember Watergate, barely, Iran Contra in passing, and every other important hearing in passing but from day one have watched every minute of these hearings and want more.
Layer8Problem
@Dangerman: A simple country congresswoman like her would have those hanging off of the rear view mirror of her F-150.
Mike E
@citizen dave: CBS asking now about DOJ pursuing prosecution against Turd 187. Make note of this being asked by the other outlets, if at all.
James E Powell
@raven:
Bark is so underrated that most people have never heard of it.
emrys
@Steeplejack: and a gaggle of four women and one man.
Almost Retired
Oh my. I’ve had my cigarette, and I’m ready for another round. But I have to wait until September. With all these additional texts, raw footage and former staffers suddenly getting new lawyers, a lot of Trump allies on Capital Hill are going to have a tense Labor Day barbecue.
I couldn’t figure out why the Committee called Doug Neidermeyer to testify in person today, but then I realized it was someone else.
Ohio Mom
Kitzinger (and maybe I just don’t know enough about him) is the only Republican I don’t feel dirty when I enjoy their comments — Pottinger, that blonde nebish communications staffer, Cheney with her Reagan and Thatcher fandom — ick, ick, triple ick.
I kept reminding myself that they mainly serve to demonstrate that Trump is so heinous that he’s too henious for ordinary heinous Republicans.
HumboldtBlue
@Spanky:
Do you remember?
JWR
@HumboldtBlue: Same here. But what I’m hoping for is more hastily called hearings during the month of August, because this is a mini-series I’m really liking.
Steeplejack
@emrys:
I’m okay with that! Apparently Chris Hayes had to leave because it’s past his bedtime.
ETA: I know they’re trying to work in Ann Curry, but she needs to up her game a bit.
karen marie
@Scout211: WHAT DID I MISS? I WAS WORKING AND FORGOT!
BeautifulPlumage
No one mentioning the Bannon bit at the end. Using Stevie Three-Shirts to prove premeditation, on the day I his defense rests without witnesses? Hahahahahah!
Spanky
@citizen dave:
Asking for a job.
Steeplejack
I hope tonight helps Elaine Luria in her tight race this fall.
dww44
@Steeplejack: Nah, that wasn’t the problem. He does have 3 young kids he might have needed to help put to bed.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Oops, “Ann Curry” is really Alex Wagner. My bad.
Captain C
@JWR:
Gore, whose colleagues in the Clinton Administration told the Bush people that Bin Laden and his gang would be their major international headache and here’s what’s being done to stop them, and were promptly and brusquely rebuffed and ignored.
Ohio Mom
@karen marie: Aaron Rupar puts the video highlights on his Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar
MazeDancer
The Assassination of Josh Hawley was big fun.
He has such teeny wrists, too.
JWR
Yet another reason the Dems absolutely must hold the House come November. Not for fear of investigations, but for putting up with know-nothing loudmouth’s like Loudermilk.
Geminid
@Steeplejack: The hearings will help Luria’s fundraising if nothing else. Republicans are going all out against Luria, even nominated another retired woman Navy officer to run against her.
Besides Cheney, Elaine Luria is the only Commitee membee with a tough reelection. Murphy and Kinzinger are retiring.
catclub
@Scout211:
They sure look like they are making the case for a rec to DOJ.
Hammering that nail pretty hard.
RaflW
@Immanentize: Waxen and craven.
Craven and waxen.
That’s our Jared.
Steeplejack
Think I’m going to finish my drink and cap the evening with Perry Mason on MeTV. Another force for justice in the world.
SamIAm
@Misterpuff:
That sounds like a mnemonic. For something crude and disgusting….
artem1s
@Ohio Mom:
keep reminding yourself that Liz spanked Hawley publicly, not because he egged on a violent crowd, but because he put HER in danger. She had no trouble with her father egging on these same deplorables to commit violent acts against abortion providers, homosexuals, African Americans, Muslims, immigrants, and whoever they could use to deflect blame away from themselves while they robbed the country blind and committed acts of genocide and torture.
Chbnna
@Mike E: abc news was discussing it too, in fact that’s one of the first things they talked about, that the committee seems to be focusing on the dereliction of duty and incitement. It’s the first time i’ve heard them talk about criminal charges.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
do the people always harping about Dems suckatmessaging and need to learn about the internet know about Brian Schatz? He’s very good at twitter but apparently hates to do TV
Misterpuff
What a production. Now that’s how you do a Committee meeting. Fill prime time until 15 minutes before the late news. And Cheney’s Spawn made it clear for the mouth-breathing MAGAts, that everything we the Commitee presented to you was not the attacks of partisans but the damning testimony of his own people, Republicans and many true believers, and even they can’t defend him.
Oh and I had withdrawal symptoms this afternoon……
mrmoshpotato
LOL!
JWR
@Captain C: Yep. I remember that story. And who could ever forget Shrub’s response to receiving the PDB titled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in USA”, by saying, “okay, you’ve covered your ass”? But I forget if that was the time he followed up by saying, “now watch this drive!”
SamIAm
@Steeplejack:
You and I end our evenings the same way. 😁
Ken
The dangerous mob went away, and turned back into the Republican base?
Old School
@Steeplejack:
Chris Hayes is on the live Colbert Late Show tonight.
Steeplejack
@SamIAm: 🥂
RaflW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is an excellent catch/retweet by Schatz tonight:
View the tweet to see the video clip.
Steeplejack
@Old School:
Well, I stand corrected! But I was also informed that he had to go home to put his kids to bed.
Spanky
@Old School:
Which they’re doing live, because of The Treason Show.
Geminid
@JWR: That story is recounted in the first few pages of Robert Gordon and Bernard Trainor’s history of the planning and execution of the second Gulf War, titled Cobra II (2004). According to them it was Bill Clinton who warned Bush when they met before Bush’s inauguration
(I mean the story Captain C referred to).
Warblewarble
Please, please can we have Hawleys run set to chicken sqawks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Warblewarble: or spliced into the Bluth family chicken dances?
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Not to pick a fight on the messaging issue, but the fact that Senator Schatz is not as well-known nationally as Graham, Cruz, Rubio, Collins, Hawley and several GOP congress-creatures is a Democratic Party problem. And I saw him on TV a few years ago and he is very good.
I don’t know why Democrats Brain Schatz, Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley, Catherine Cortez Maso, Alex Padilla, and Ben Ray Lujan (sorry if I missed someone you like) aren’t on TV as often as the Republicans, but I do know it’s a big problem that they are not.
JWR
@Geminid: And I remember the “now watch this drive” story from “Fahrenheit 9/11” ; )
NotMax
@Steeplejack
All nine seasons (minus the curious unavailability of less than a handful of episodes) are on Freevee with Prime.
FYI.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks. I have seen every episode multiple times, so it’s not a binge target for me. Just a nice check-in available once or twice a day. Also a four-episode block on Sundance later tonight (and every Thursday).
Brachiator
I was working from home and my sister called and asked if I was watching the hearings. She said it reminded her of a science fiction movie.
Why are they coming back for more in September? It’s clear that Trump was trying to use the riot to drag shit out, hoping that he could find a way to overturn the election. It’s also pretty damn clear that the Constitution means nothing to Trump.
His ass needs to be in jail.
That Trump filters his reality through Fox News is frightening.
Republican politicians knew what Trump was up to. Those who tried to get him to stop the insurrection but who now provide cover for him still don’t understand where this might lead.
Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and other pundits are beyond useless. They view this as just another day of political theater. They would cover their own arrest and political executions with the same amount of bland, meaningless commentary.
Captain C
@JWR: I think “watch this drive” was after, as per this YouTube find, and “You’ve covered your ass” was before. Both definitely symptoms of a callous administration and President who had, as Dick Cheney (I think it was) said, “other priorities.”
ETA: Yes I think Dick was talking about his five or so Vietnam deferments, but it fits the whole Shrub Administration as well.
Captain C
@James E Powell:
If it’s anything like what we heard about the Afghanistan evacuation, the various shows’ bookers are the problem.
brklyWest
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
She made than a million dollars in less than a month from streaming revenues…
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Also on Freevee is the very early 1950s series Dangerous Assignment (TV successor to the radio program), starring Brian Donleavy as a globe-hopping “special U.S. agent” sent out on short notice to troubleshoot for an unnamed federal agency. A speedy half hour per episode. Almost marvelously simplistic now, yet retains a certain je ne sais quoi. Half the fun is seeing later much more well known actors in guest roles.
Fascinated by the short opening sequence, which today would be a snap to recreate using SFX but back then, near as can determine, called for an extremely skillful and precise professional knife thrower.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I’ll check it out!
prostratedragon
@NotMax: The 30-minute tv drama was an interesting form. Amazing how much ground a really well-written one could cover.
RaflW
@James E Powell: Guys like the late Eric Boehlert tried for years to name and shame the networks and their bookers, who choose Rs over Ds for their shows like 3:1 or 4:1. Maybe it’s a little bit the fault of Dems, but it’s the fucking bias of the TV shows.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
One can tell the writers were not yet fully comfortable with the visual nature of TV. Still has some tidbits such as:
“I’m certain what we’re looking for is behind that door, Joan.”
“Are we going to open the door, Steve?”
On radio, the sound of a door being opened would follow. On TV the second line, setting up the sound effect, is superfluous but still a part of the script.
:)
lowtechcyclist
@JWR:
And that PDB was no one-off, either. It was the culmination of a sequence of five or six PDBs that were increasingly shrill in their warnings about bin Laden being an imminent threat.
The intel community was desperately trying to get through to him about bin Laden, and he totally dismissed it.
Basically because (a) he and Cheney had their sights set on Iraq all along, wanting to play the world like it was a Risk board, and (b) bin Laden was the Democrats’ obsession, and while they weren’t as far along as Trump & Co. would be about making sure that however the Dems did things, that’s what they wouldn’t do, but they were sure working on it.
There go two miscreants
Nice turn of phrase!
Paul in KY
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: That little twit is probably a Colonel in the FSB. If TFG had stolen the election and scammed another term, she’d have been promoted to General.
Paul in KY
@Dangerman: I bet she does. Would be in the master bathroom.
Paul in KY
@Layer8Problem: Just read this. Spot on!