Cohen Testimony Thread

[miniroller]

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

H says he can tell in my complete current craziness that this is what I did all day. I blamed you guys... Obviously 😋

[isabel]

Feb 27, 2019 17:23:10 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:02:06 GMT -5 isabel said:

Yep. I am most definitely shocked to hear Cummings say Meadows is one of his best friends. Did he seriously just say that? For fuck's sake. I don't like that Talib is backing down on this.

Oh I think that's smart. It stays in the Congressional record if she backs of the slightest bit - if it gets stricken, it's completely out of the record. He just got written into history being called out by a young WOC telling the world he's a racist. 

Fair point.

[isabel]

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

I'm eating a sleeve of thin mints instead. lol

[underwaterrhymes]

Feb 27, 2019 17:28:56 GMT -5 isabel said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

I'm eating a sleeve of thin mints instead. lol

LOL! I just ate four Thin Mints myself.

[debatethis]

Feb 27, 2019 17:25:30 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:23:10 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Oh I think that's smart. It stays in the Congressional record if she backs of the slightest bit - if it gets stricken, it's completely out of the record. He just got written into history being called out by a young WOC telling the world he's a racist. 

I didn’t know this. Thanks for explaining that.

Yup, my memory on the exact congressional rule is a bit fuzzy but it's basically no ad hominem attacks. Which is why she was tip toeing right up to the line of not calling Meadows a racist directly but saying it's racist behavior - Meadows was demanding that (what he called) a personal attack get stricken. So he (IMO) looks like a raging dick right about now and her comments stay in. 

[debatethis]

Feb 27, 2019 17:28:56 GMT -5 isabel said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

I'm eating a sleeve of thin mints instead. lol

Same except I absentmindedly ate a whole box of them today.

[Velar Fricative]

I’ve felt the same way about the lack of peaceful transition of power if he gets removed from office somehow too. It’s scary to think about but I can’t fathom his supporters accepting an election loss or removal from office.

[pinkdutchtulips]

Feb 27, 2019 17:10:15 GMT -5 ESF said:

he fears that if Trump loses, there will never be a peaceful transition of power?

Damn. I believe he's right, but it's chilling to have someone who knows him better than just about anyone say that.

who can evict a former POTUS ?!? Secret Service ? Military ? Fed Marshals ?

[bowies]

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

Like I should look up my therapist’s number.

[atexan]

Feb 27, 2019 17:32:51 GMT -5 bowies said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:26:24 GMT -5 atexan said:

I only watched the last 20 minutes and I feel like I need a cigarette. I can't imagine how those of you watching all day must feel.

Like I should look up my therapist’s number.

1-800-JACK-DANIELS

[Pom]

I wanna hug Elijah Cummings and thank him for his service to this motherfuckin’ mess of a county. He’s gotta be so tired. Figuratively and in reality.

[bowies]

Y’all.

ETA: Involves a video so if you can’t see it, 🤷‍♀️

[miniroller]

A video from ‘12 of Meadows showing exactly how not racist he is:

[suburbanzookeeper]

"The 29 most consequential lines from Michael Cohen's congressional testimony" for those who missed the whole shit show:

www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-oversight-committee-russia/index.html

[silva]

Feb 27, 2019 17:46:19 GMT -5 bowies said:

Y’all.

ETA: Involves a video so if you can’t see it, 🤷‍♀️

Omg!!! Ha!

[aurora]

Feb 27, 2019 17:31:48 GMT -5 pinkdutchtulips said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:10:15 GMT -5 ESF said:

he fears that if Trump loses, there will never be a peaceful transition of power?

Damn. I believe he's right, but it's chilling to have someone who knows him better than just about anyone say that.

who can evict a former POTUS ?!? Secret Service ? Military ? Fed Marshals ?

I don't think there's any precedent for the question. I remember my AP Government teacher speaking with reverence about how the peaceful transition of power was so incredibly unusual and special to the US in the late 18th century.

[aspentosh]

Feb 27, 2019 17:46:19 GMT -5 bowies said:

Y’all.

ETA: Involves a video so if you can’t see it, 🤷‍♀️

Love the shade!

Sad to have missed the last couple hours. I really wanted to see AOC. 

[bowies]

My H happened to catch one of the instances of a Congressman (R-Backbencher) claiming how well he knows Trump and said he felt like he was watching the new girlfriend tell the ex how he would never act that way to her because of their soul connection. He had the German embarrassment.

[elleblue]

Meadows is racist AF, nieces and nephews notwithstanding.

GOP Congressional candidate Mark Meadows, likely to be the GOP nominee in the heavily Republican 11th district of North Carolina, appears to have flirted with birtherism on at least two occasions in recent weeks.

"2012 is the time we're going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is," Meadows said to applause at a June 9 tea party rally. "We're going to do it!"

At an appearance at a tea party forum on June 12, Meadows said, "we" will send Obama "back home to Kenya or wherever it is."

link

[pixy0stix]

Will we need a separate Maddow breakdown thread?

[shortcake2675]

Feb 27, 2019 18:07:28 GMT -5 aspentosh said:

Feb 27, 2019 17:46:19 GMT -5 bowies said:

Y’all.

ETA: Involves a video so if you can’t see it, 🤷‍♀️

Love the shade!

Sad to have missed the last couple hours. I really wanted to see AOC. 

Testimony here, AOC is at 3:21:00.  www.wbur.org/news/2019/02/27/michael-cohen-testimony-video

[Pom]

So what time should we expect a Twitter shitstorm.

[AJL]

Feb 27, 2019 18:26:02 GMT -5 bowies said:

My H happened to catch one of the instances of a Congressman (R-Backbencher) claiming how well he knows Trump and said he felt like he was watching the new girlfriend tell the ex how he would never act that way to her because of their soul connection. He had the German embarrassment.

fremdschämen 

[jeaniebueller]

Some levity

[cous0226]

excellent recap everyone. It's like I was sitting in the room! Good work!

Do we know if Fox aired all of this today or were they playing cartoons for 8 hours?

I hope Anderson, Chris and Rachel give me a good wrap up. Sounds like today was amazing!

I really thought he wouldn't want to run in 2020 because he hates his life so much but then he'll fucking run because it's the only way he can't be indicted and can

pardon everyone along the way. mother fucker. I hope they have state crimes on those fucking kids.

[bowies]

I completely missed that Cohen outed Junior as Executive-2.

[mbcdefg]

Feb 27, 2019 19:35:38 GMT -5 Pom said:

So what time should we expect a Twitter shitstorm.

[NewOrleans]

I still see you Republican voters (I know you're still lurking) who went toe to toe with us on these boards for years because you said these people had a better vision for the country. Now that you've done your taxes, was your new tax rate worth everything your people said and did today? Honest to God.

[pixy0stix]

Over at FOX - thehill.com/homenews/media/431942-fox-news-panelists-get-into-heated-exchange-during-cohen-testimony-im-gonna

[heyjude]

Feb 27, 2019 20:27:49 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

I still see you Republican voters (I know you're still lurking) who went toe to toe with us on these boards for years because you said these people had a better vision for the country. Now that you've done your taxes, was your new tax rate worth everything your people said and did today? Honest to God.

This needs it’s own thread. I always wonder about our dearly departed friends on the right.

(For the newbies, this board used to have lively debates that featured opinions from the left AND right)