Mojo Hand

The problem is, it's too dry compared to Trump's ranting. They just need like a blinking red "FALSE".

The volume of lies coming from him is unreal.

I know. But even pointing that out detracts from the fact that the call summary is damning. Here's what Dems need to say, over and over again "The transcript is damning and clearly shows a quid pro quo, and that's just the part Trump is letting us see. Twenty minutes are missing! We read this thing and out of a 30 minute call, it was ten minutes tops. Where are the missing twenty minutes?!?"

That was insane. He looked like he was going to physically pop. His strategy is clear: pretend this is all about one perfect call, and then pretend everything negative that people are saying about the call is a lie, without actually defending the reality of what was said on the call. Schiff - fake account. Whistleblower - lying and didn't even hear it himself. The fake news - said there was a quid pro quo demanded 8 times and there wasn't. What he wants is the Dems to let up on the transcript and say, "Well, what Schiff did was a mistake, but he said it was a parody, and wasn't claiming to be reading the exact transcript. And the Whistleblower may have gotten some of the information second hand, but what he's said has been confirmed. And no quid pro quo is necessary, and blah blah blah." And suddenly, the story becomes about whether the media and the Whistleblower and Adam Schiff are lying, rather than about Trump extorting Ukraine with taxpayer funds for his personal benefit and the covering it up. One of the analysts on CNN even engaged with the quid pro quo argument by saying "perhaps you can argue that there was a missing verb for a quid pro quo, but anyone who reads it and understands the context knows..." And Trump has already gotten what he wanted.

“People are so ungrateful,” Guyger commented under a post of a Minion character from "Despicable Me" with the text, “No one ever thanks me for having the patience not to kill them.”

Racist texts introduced by prosecution for sentencing: "But after a jury convicted Amber Guyger, 31, of murder on Tuesday, prosecutors introduced text messages sent by the former officer that show her making offensive statements. In the texts, Guyger jokes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, mocks her black colleagues and discusses a dog that her friend warns “may be racist.” “It’s okay.. I’m the same,” Guyger wrote back about the dog, just days before she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment on Sept. 6, 2018. One minute later, she texted again: “I hate everything and everyone but y’all.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/02/amber-guyger-offensive-texts-botham-jean-murder/

Looks like the Dems have one, so both sides!

He's also married to Oprah

Trumpy the Payday Slayer

y no blue check tho

Hmm, very interesting (not sure where this goes)

Oh how nice

I think we can safely predict next quarter...

There are classic politicians in every town in America. Sarah Palin was a classic politician when she was Mayor of Wasilla, from the stories of people who knew her then. It's not just a Washington thing. That said, I like Pete a lot and think he's a good dude.

Well, not black people. But I take your point.

Did the cops screw up the fire thing or was that all they needed? I didn't quite follow.

The best part of the episode was Greg's face while Ken was rapping.

The ICIG has issued a statement refuting the "second-hand info" narrative

I wasn't talking about you. Clearly everyone here understands what Schiff was doing. You don't think Schiff was actually trying to fabricate quotes by Trump and present them as really appearing in the transcript, right? The issue we all recognize is that it's easily prone to misrepresentation by Trump to stupid people. Some non-stupid people, including you, seem to think that it was a mistake to provide that ammunition, others like me that it wasn't for various reasons, stupid people be damned. And I think both takes are reasonable.

The only misstep would be if Dems start scolding Schiff and/or make him walk it back. That's what Trump is desperately trying to bait Dems into doing: put Dems on the defensive and roll out the standard playbook.