#17

sarcasm
/srkaz'm/

noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

hysteria
/h'stir"',h'ster"'/

noun
exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.

Judging by your failure to understand the difference between sarcasm and hysteria, I now understand that you have no sarcasm meter. I assume you are the "take everything literally unless it suits your narrative" kind of person. I'll make a mental note of that.

#14

I think you need to modulate your sarcasm sensitivity meter to not trigger the liar cannon too quickly...

We get back to the mystery of what magic that ------, Donald Trump, works on his cult members.

I don't know, but I'm sure it involves the Magic Triangle of George Soros, Saul Alinsky and The Clintons.

You didn't get "Drive by" into your comments yet, but I heard Matt Gaetz use it in the hearing, and again today on Rush Limpd--k's show (for the minute I was able to tolerate before having to shut it off). I guess that's a bonus, LOL.

The Horowitz testimony was devastating to the right-wing conspiracy theories. So, um, I guess if "devastating to right-wingers" means "desperate." Got it. Whatever reality is, the opposite is what right-wingers believe.

Another example: "This is not a transcript" means "Read the transcript, it was a PERFECT CALL!"

What not-liberals do every day is a Gish gallop of strawmen and red herrings, and it intensifies the closer we all get to understanding the truth. Gym Jordan, Rep. Collins, Matt Gaetz, etc. are all flinging poo as fast as they can because the truth is getting too close for comfort. If you only watch not-liberal media, I guess it makes sense and you're totally winning, but every one of these impeachment hearings has been one side presenting a devastating and fact-based case that clearly demonstrates why the POTUS needs to be impeached and the other side is yelling and shouting and pounding the table about things from inside their conservamedia bubble. I suppose I need to turn on OAN for the context, because just watching the unfiltered hearings has painted a completely different picture than whatever propaganda stations like Fox or OAN are saying. I don't always get that view, I don't watch cable news.

I guess I'm on the left, certainly to the left of "conservatives," but the Horowitz testimony that you're discussing in the context of whatever Rush Limpd--k is saying on his hate radio broadcast every day, and what we are actually seeing outside of conservative conspiracyland, is worlds apart. Just because not-liberals keep making the claim that the "left" is desperate and grasping at straws doesn't make it so.

You are a card carrying member of the clown show now. Nothing you regurgitate here has any real affect on anyone that is not tuned in to Fox "news" conspiracy theories. Most of the time, we're trying to figure out what the hell you're talking about because none of it makes any sense on the face of it. You have to be dialed in to the Drumpf cult to figure out how things like "This is not an exoneration" actually means, "This is a complete exoneration." That takes much more effort for us, unfortunately, because sane people can't tolerate the likes of Ingraham, Hannity or Tucker Carlson for more than a few minutes at a time.

Drumpf's Russian handler, on the other hand, paid him a second visit on the day he was impeached. I wonder how his performance review went...

Bill Barr is an excellent AG.

#2 | POSTED BY JEFFJ

And with one comment, JEFFJ confirms membership in the cult. Is there a ceremony that happens now?

God I love Russia winning ...
#37 | POSTED BY ANDREAMACKRIS

FIFY

Winning to Cult 45 followers:

Don McGahn court filing.
Financial records ruling (part 1, part2...waiting for part3)
Drumpf University
Drumpf Foundation
Manafort
Papadopoulous
Stone
Cohen
Flynn
Van der Zwaan
Gates
Pinedo

That's a lot of winning!

You thought you had the moral high ground but you were deceived by lies you want to believe to be true.

You mean like glossing over the president of the United States of America, under oath, admitting fraud and then paying a $2 million settlement, but still maintaining that it was Hillary Clinton whose Foundation was corrupt and breaking the law? Like that?

I'm sure the DR wingnuts will be on here soon to explain how it wasn't cheating and if it was, it was harmless, and if it wasn't, they didn't need to cheat, and if they did, they offered to delete the tape so everything is hunky dory, get over it. We're talking about Patriots, not black quarterbacks kneeling for the National Anthem, after all.

All the wingnuts on here are upset about FISA abuses, right? So what's the plan to fix them? I can get down with less surveillance and DHS leeway. That all started with Repubicans under Bush. Happy to clean up the process.

Yet another court case we paid for that he lost.

#155

There are quite a few polls that show lefties, and people who don't get their "news" from conservitard media, as being more informed and more intelligent. So, to answer your second question, yes. It turns out, not stupid at all.

I referenced a Fox "news" poll that listed the impeach and remove favorability at 51%, but if we're going with 538 as the source of truth, so be it. My point stands that a) more people favor impeachment than don't and b) 47% is a huge number considering where we are, historical precedent and public support. The argument was that public support for impeachment is not there. It is.

#9

Can you provide evidence that ANY of "dossier" has been proven false, or are you just repeating Rush Limpd--k talking points? There is evidence that some parts of it are true. Outside of, you know, the document clearly stating that it is just some memos that aren't verified, the wingnut infatuation with the memos as a legal document (like the "this is not a transcript" notes on the Perfect Call is not, you know, a transcript). Funny how, "Hey, I've been hearing some of this stuff and it is troubling, maybe someone can look into some of it," became, "This is the basis for our legal case to overthrow a duly elected president and install Hillary by the Deep State," LOL.

You Russia traitors are entertaining to watch. Manifesting paranoid delusions and conspiracy theories used to be more rare. Now it's mainstreamed.

Daddy is jealous of the guy who banged his daughter and is holding the disloyalty of not joining "the family," against him. All he can do is all-caps rage tweet about him now.

But seriously 17 major lies in one request for a search warrant?

#20 | POSTED BY SNIPER

I've noticed that every single wingnut on the DR has made the case that there were 17 "major lies" on the FISA request, and I have also noticed that pretty much anyone that says that has no idea what the actual 17 "major lies" are.

Hey Snipey, wanna dazzle us with a bullet list of all the MAJOR LIES!!!!? I'm sure you can rattle them off the top of your head, LOL.

I got about 2 minutes of Rush Limpd--k exposure today and what the DR righties are parroting is straight up what he is saying. The whole of AmerRussia propaganda is building the case behind Barr's upside down world reading of the Horowitz report.

I heard Rush use the phrase "drive by reporters" to describe CNN, and immediately cued into JeffJ's use of that phrase to describe JPW's "drive by blogging" in the comments the other day.

So basically, we're fortunate to get the AmerRussia propaganda in the DR comments section so we can avoid having to listen to it on the actual propaganda stations. Filtered Nazis are easier to stomach.

Right, it was started because the butt hurt dems needed to try and find an excuse why their crappy candidate lost. Just listen to Hillary already, last week it was Bernie Sanders, next week it will be a bunion.

#17 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Um, the butt hurt Repubicans, more specifically, the butthurt president of the US, started the investigation because his crimes and collusion keep getting exposed and he needs to point at someone or something other than himself before his daddy, Putin, gets mad at him.

The Russia investigation started well before the election took place, it's not the Dem's fault that the Drumpf campaign kept showing up in the results.

Repubicans have been jamming square pegs into round holes for decades now. There's really no upside to stopping now...

I'm so old, I remember when Repubicans were against the Russkies. Guess they just needed a bigger payroll.

I'm not sure what the strategy is right now, but there are several possible tactics at play:

Voting on the limited scope articles is very specific - the public won't be able to follow too broad a scope, and the facts here are very clear. Investigations are ongoing, so whatever comes about in those will be added to the case.

The president and his staff have obstructed Congress and Justice. The DOJ is under an AG who is not faithfully executing his office, so they are sticking to the obstruction of Congress issue for now.

Many of us have been critical of Pelosi for delaying this for so long. We are now faced with a president who will appeal everything to the SCOTUS, delaying the process. The problem with waiting for the courts on everything is that POTUS is breaking the law right now, in real time.

Democrats don't have to forward articles of impeachment to the Senate. They can vote to impeach, and not refer it to the Senate. There are no rules around the timing of this, either. They could continue to add to the articles of impeachment. They could decide to censure the president instead.

Regardless, the GOP has gone all-in for Drumpf. Wagon's hitched, and as more and more of the truth comes out, it is not going to get any better for Repubicans. If you think any documents, recordings or fact witnesses under oath are going to exculpate him on this, you are a fool.

Nobody really knows how this is going to shake out. Sounds like there are a handful of Repubicans who are fine kicking him out of office, they just can't break ranks publicly. If you use the analogy of playoff sports, "That's why you play the game."

#92

Gee, the WH is lying, the Repubican members on the committee are lying, the entirety of conservative media is lying and Drumpf supporters are only consuming a daily diet of Repubican lies...I wonder why that needle just keeps staying there...what could it be?

Again, everyone defending the president refuses to address the real issue. You complained about the process being partisan, when the House Democrats were merely following the rules established by Repubicans (who anticipated a HRC presidency, lol). You complained about a lack of transparency, ignoring the fact that Repubicans were invited to, and apparently frequently just didn't show up to, the closed-door depositions in the SCIF. You complained about not being able to call fact witnesses, despite Repubican fact witnesses being brought before the committee. You argued that Hunter and Joe Biden should be brought in as fact witnesses, despite neither of them being on the call in question. You complained that the hearings were unfair because Drumpf wasn't allowed to face his accusers, which doesn't happen at this point in the process, and then didn't blink an eye when POTUS refused to appear when invited to participate.

What you still have not done, however, is offer any definitive statements or evidence that challenges the facts. POTUS admitted to, provided documentation of and reiterated in a press conference solicitation of a foreign power (multiple foreign powers) to interfere in the 2020 election. He is a traitor. Anyone defending him is also a traitor.