Impeachment thread # 2

[SamKnause]

Castor is a terrible attorney.

I am glad.

[underthematrix]

1. When the representative of the GOPTraitors is speaking I change

the channels on both TVs and do some things around the house.

Link to tweet

[RestoreAmerica2020]

104. Thanks. I'll go walk my dog now. Started watching segment--

just sickening to watch them defend the indefensible. I'm off to get some fresh air.

[SamKnause]

2. Castor spouting Russian propaganda.

Vile evil republicans.

They are the greatest threat this country has ever faced.

Bipartisanship with these evil people is impossible.

They are the enemy.

[samnsara]

7. he doesn't even believe himself....

[PatSeg]

11. Exactly

Yet these people expose themselves and their hypocrisy for the whole world to see, not to mention becoming a permanent footnote in history, one that represents the lies and corruption of the Trump presidency. Nice legacy to leave one's grandchildren and great grandchildren.

[uponit7771]

3. Castor conflating direct influence vs verbal opposition

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. He is saying that the facts the Democrats have are WRONG

When the opposite is true.

Heresay, when the principle players have been prevented from appearing to give testimony, is vital here. Democrats prove the point of obstruction of Justice and of Congress at the same time.

The Republicans have no choice but to look like fools.

[SKKY]

5. He returned from recess, and had all his stuff in a Whole Foods shopping bag...

...I applaud the conservation, but you have to admit, it wasn't a good look.

[samnsara]

9. our county banned all those plastic bags and if we get one at a store we pay 10c..

....needless to say I have a goodly collection of various canvas shopping bags. Would love one from WF!

[SKKY]

35. I lived in Spain for a number of years. Same thing there.

[samnsara]

6. that first time he questioned the witnesses he was growly, glaring at the female witness, daring her

..today he looks unprepared, weary and questioning why the hell am i even here?

[PatSeg]

16. I think you've read his mind

I'm getting the feeling that a lot of people are having regrets, but they've come too far to turn back now or at least think they have.

[crickets]

32. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

8. The latest is that the GOP is now admitting that yes Russia was involved in impacting the election

but ya know... some of the Ukrainians were too ya know....

[SamKnause]

10. Trump was concerned about corruption.

What a fucking joke.

There should be a photo of Trump in the dictionary next to the word corrupt.

[BuffaloJackalope]

31. He was concerned that Ukraine wasn't corrupt enough.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. HERE ARE STREAM LINKS

[SamKnause]

21. Thank you for posting the links.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. You are welcome

Hoping to consolidate the two "hearing 1" threads into this one. They start getting unwieldy and slow when the number of posts start to get closer to 100 or more in them.

[SamKnause]

23. Thank you so much.

[spanone]

13. Castor hasn't mentioned ONE WORD from Ambassador Yavanovitch

hmmmm....i wonder why?

[wryter2000]

14. Is Castor under oath?

How do they get away with these lies?

[Drum]

17. He is. n/t

[Karma13612]

18. The Dems should give the Repubs a bit of their own

Medicine and ‘object’ to some of the substance of Castor Oil’s statement like they did about Burke’s opening statement.

[Karma13612]

15. Volker was one of the 3 Amigos!

He keeps quoting just him.

Years from now when we find out we were lied to, i certainly hope we are in a better place than we are now.

Look at the headlines today:
We have been lied to about Afghanistan.

Jeebus

[dweller]

19. i took my break when Nadler called for it, hoped i'd miss Castor's oily testimony

flushing 10-15 times take awhile after all 😳

✌🏼

[Karma13612]

20. Yea, I took a break with Nadler and shoveled snow.

Unfortunately, I came back to this - my timing stinks.

I am going to go do the dishes........

[BumRushDaShow]

24. "Yea, I took a break with Nadler and shoveled snow."

Oh ewwwww.... You can keep that snow wherever you are!!!

[Karma13612]

105. It's exercise and a good way to release my frustration!

It also means I can eat lots of unhealthy food while I watch this joke of a hearing!

Later we are making pizza!

[BumRushDaShow]

106. LOL

I'm not ready for snow (am in Philly).

Had enough of it back in '96 and anything beyond that was worse.

[maveric]

25. SmelleCastor

Repeating debunked shit.

[uponit7771]

26. Both Turley and Castor ignored the "Do not cooperate with this investigation" memo from Trump

[CapnSteve]

27. Thanks for these threads...it will be very interesting how Stevie stands up under questioning...

...from Ds (and former prosecutors) on the committee!

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Castor oil done. And GOATMERT does his side show.

[underpants]

38. Gohmert is their point guy?

[crickets]

43. Is there a point where people like Gohmert can get thrown out

for obstruction of Congress? Because that, along with slander, is what he's engaged in doing. The lack of basic respect is appalling. Again.

[2naSalit]

29. He sounds like he's

telling a bad bedtime story in the most condescending fashion.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Next phase - questions by the Chair (and counsel) to the witnesses and then switch to the minority

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Barry Berke (Dem Judiciary counsel) now questioning witnesses - doing Castor first

Bringing up all the Drumpf tweets and rally tweets about "Biden"!!!

[uponit7771]

34. Castor starts out lying

[underpants]

36. Castor says he doesn't think Biden as a potential Trump foe

[elleng]

39. 'It's too early!'

[underpants]

51. Yeah that was classic

[BumRushDaShow]

37. Zoo show when the FACTS come out.

[uponit7771]

40. +1, why did they even proffer Castor if they were going to do this anyway?

[BumRushDaShow]

44. I expect no one else wanted to do it

[uponit7771]

45. lol

[spanone]

41. these assholes can't stand to be in the minority....

so they disrupt

[SamKnause]

42. No honest or sane person can watch these hearings and side with the republicans.

The entire republican party is corrupt, vile, and evil.

[BumRushDaShow]

46. OMG CASTOR OIL BULLSHITTING

Berke is pointing out ALL OF THE OTHER STUFF behind the "8 lines" talking point.

[uponit7771]

47. WHY EVEN PARTICIPATE !!! Castor is horrible

[BumRushDaShow]

49. Caught in a bind of the facts

[crickets]

54. It's painful watching his attempts to avoid answering a simple yes no question.

The obstinance in refusing to just answer a question, when the answer is so CLEAR... *sigh*

[BumRushDaShow]

59. They are in a bad position.

[crickets]

48. omg Castor takes five minutes to answer a yes no question.

And his dithering is interrupted with people screeching they don't like the question. This is crazy.

[IcyPeas]

50. it's confusing to me because

as a regular person I don't know what the precedents are and if they are breaking them.....

[uponit7771]

53. Look at who's interrupting and how, that'll tell you who's unprecedented.

[IcyPeas]

66. yes, that is my assumption these days

[crickets]

60. This is not normal. Not at all.

There are rules, all the members know them, questions are asked, questions are answered, gavel, done. This is a circus by comparison. It's sad.

[BumRushDaShow]

52. Blinding Castor with the facts

[BumRushDaShow]

55. LOL asking about Jennifer Williams (Pence's aid)

Are you calling her a liar or that she was pre-determined to impeach.

Berke is going through the "minority report" that was drafted by Castor.

[uponit7771]

56. IG Report released during fact part of hearings !!! Damn M$M !!

[Karma13612]

57. MSNBC

Just turned from this to the DOJ breaking news. Right in the middle of Berke questioning Castor!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crickets]

64. IKR? So annoying!

Thank you, BumRushDaShow for live links above.

[Karma13612]

93. I'll second that!!

[SamKnause]

58. Castor is not qualified to be a dog catcher.

Pardon the pun: The bar is set very low if Castor qualified as an attorney.

Professional liar would be a more apt title.

[BumRushDaShow]

61. Berke is going through all the OMISSIONS from the minority GOP report

[czarjak]

62. He's an attorney?

[BumRushDaShow]

63. Sensenstupid obstruction circus side show.

[crickets]

65. Sensenbrenner asking for decorum?! And pigs fly.

[Mersky]

68. Lol. biggs passed him the baton of high-volume stupidity during the recess

[Mersky]

67. "I'm telling you, you did" - Berke said to castor

Leave Ms Williams statement out of your report. Her statement of how the call was unusual because it was political in nature given VP Biden is the pResident’s political opponent.

castor shrugs shoulder with a, if you say so.

Ugh.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

75. Him & his stupid ass body language: shrugs, faces, seat shifting - like a guilty 10 year old. nt

[Mersky]

77. Yeah, so annoying he is

[BumRushDaShow]

69. Berke is going through the list of people that Drumpf said NOT to testify

despite the assertion that Drumpf gave full cooperation!

[crickets]

70. Whenever I get a little het up about the shenanigans going on

I run over the Wonkette and read the liveblog and laugh. Better.

Except now I've read all of it and these a-holes are still whining out of order and omg.

Castor's plaintive "It's just not fair" has me rolling again nvm.

[BumRushDaShow]

71. Bringing up the "2 lawyers" - Ghouliani and Barr

and how Barr suddenly claimed he had nothing to do with it.

[BumRushDaShow]

72. Berke now delving into Ghouliani's media appearances

related to Biden.

[crickets]

73. Castor was whining about getting to speak a few minutes ago-

now he is on the hot seat and squirming. These slides are great. They are giving him no room to lie outright.

He's reduced to, "I guess you're right."

I love counsel's "Sir, you'll have an opportunity to talk about [Volker] when the Minority questions you." Zing!

[BumRushDaShow]

74. And what happens is that the stuff Castor was whining about insisting on referencing

Goldman corrected the record on that too!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

76. Goldman is on game/confident - Castor is not & appears to be struggling. Truth prevailing. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

80. Castor has to defend the horrible fact-free GOP position.

[elleng]

78. oh crap, collins!

MAY have to mute.

[BumRushDaShow]

81. Whatever he is saing is unintelligible anyway

[crickets]

97. So much so that C-SPAN has given up on closed captions entirely.

I am not even gonna unmute, so I'll just have to read about this part of the circus later.

[BumRushDaShow]

99. My closed captioning is still going

[crickets]

102. Odd. I doublechecked my settings and everything was fine, but no captions.

Turned TV off/on and then turned captions off/on to finally fix it. That was weird. They just quit out of nowhere. Fixed now, though, thank goodness because I cannot listen to Castor.

[BumRushDaShow]

103. I have it set through my TV I think

I think my cable box lets me choose to use that one too as an alternate (the caption text looks different).

[BumRushDaShow]

79. Berke is done. Now ranking member of GOP is up for 45 minutes of questioning (with optional counsel)

[Mersky]

82. Ding dang darn...flibbertigibbets, collins! Flarge!

How long does he have? 45 mins?

[IcyPeas]

87. you're wrong!

it should be

DING DANG DARN...FLIBBERTIGIBBETS, COLLINS! FLARGE!

[Mersky]

101. Lol! Is all I can do to keep my DON'T CAPS everything together.

[BumRushDaShow]

83. Collins doing this

[elleng]

85. ZACLY!!!

[elleng]

84. MUTE!

What then V.P. Biden did was PURSUANT TO U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY!

[nolabear]

86. How clever. Using the opportunity to smear Biden.

They have no interest in this process. They just want to smear, damn, injure Democrats. The level of contempt is disgusting.

[SamKnause]

88. Collins is a screaming ignorant asshole.

[nolabear]

89. Can Nadler ask that Collins stop badgering the witness?

This is ridiculous.

[elleng]

92. I WISH!

I'd like to send a 'thank you' of some kind to Daniel Goldman.

[Bayard]

100. He's an ass

Doesn't even give Goldman a chance to answer before starting to yell again. Complaining about Goldman refusing to answer something? That's a laugh! Goldman is there to testify, how many rethugs have refused subpoenas.

But now Castor is allowed to hold forth again.

[BumRushDaShow]

90. Ha!!! Collins is trying to find out who decided to go after Nunes MOO MOO

[Pacifist Patriot]

91. Collins sounds utterly unhinged.

[extvbroadcaster]

94. People like Collins are why I left Georgia

Right wing nut jobs in Georgia government. Trump rear kissers. Glad I left.

[BumRushDaShow]

95. ****Impeachment thread # 3**** up

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212764947

[dchill]

96. Castor is coming across as a rookie replacement...

...for an actual attorney.

[Mersky]

98. collins is fishing

For some Schiff and whistleblower talking points. Ya, know red herrings.

Oh, and see BumRush's comment #90 about ferreting out who looked into moomoo's calls.
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(Goes like this, So you're telling me, Schiff is the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee? If you're telling me that, then the pResident cannot be guilty. Mannity & friends will fill in the rest, tonight on fox gnus. The defense rests.)

[malaise]

108. So there you have it in summary according to Collins

Devin Nunes' conflict of interest is Adam Schiff's fault.