Barr Agrees To Testify Before House Judiciary Committee On 3/31, Dems Say | Talking Points Memo

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Attorney General Bill Barr will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 31, the committee announced Wednesday.

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Who fucking cares? He’ll just lie his ass off anyway. You think HE fucking cares? This is a mission from God to these dominionist white nationalist assholes. NOTHING. IS. OFF. LIMITS. OR. UNJUSTIFIED. IN. THEIR. PURSUIT. OF. PERMANENT. MINORITY-RULES. WHITE. CHRISTIAN. HEGEMONY.

NOTHING.

ETA: And it’s worth noting that these are the same motherfuckers who just loooooooove to yell their islamaphobic nonsense about the Quran saying it’s right to lie to infidels.

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“Barr Agrees To Testify Lie Before House Judiciary Committee.”

Fixed.

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Great. So 8 hours of “That’s covered under executive privilege and I decline to answer the question”.

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I think they should delay a day, and have LowBarr testify on April 1st…

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on Republicans…

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1.5 Months away. What does it really matter by then Drumpf’s hair will be eternally on fire and it will be the news story for the week.

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Until he doesn’t. You know it was all lip service to shut the Dems up while he pulls the plug on any remaining shred of legitimacy in the DOJ.

OT: but what the heck does this mean - it showed up atop the screen of the comments on this thread:

Due to extreme load, this is temporarily being shown to everyone as a logged out user would see it.

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Well, that gives him over 6 weeks to cook up his new recipe for snake oil to try to sell to Congress.

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I’ll see your circus and raise you one shit show.

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You mean the DODJT, right?

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As you like it. A rose by any other name would still stink, as my late father used to say.

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I am sure that just prior to the scheduled testimony tRump will invoke executive privilege

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I’ve gotten that before too and so far as I have been able to tell it is meaningless.

hahahahaha

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This is the standard playbook in dismantling neoliberal governance. In Russia, which in the post-Soviet era had a branch of reformers that sought to make Russia a “normal” European country with the rule of law, the basic government configuration was swept aside in 2012 with the rise of “power” ministries, organs of control. Interestingly, while defense and justice went to direct Putin control, Putin allowed the finance ministry and central bank some leniency.

We seem to be seeing something similar in the US. Trump has gutted State and Labour, pussified the Pentagon, seized the controls at Justice with his proxy Barr, and Treasury has been turned into a favor-granting agency. Trump and McConnell have defanged the court system, making life easier for kleptocrats. Russia, of course, still has elections, and Putin or pro-Putin people win. A lot of what we call GOP Senate cowardice is in fact enthusiasm for this new order where they could win even more.

Like Russia, US still has a central bank and a currency, so it resembles many features of a real country. Let’s say Barr is impeached eventually, even if extremely unlikely, there is a building full of Barrs just a few blocks down the street at 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. to fill the vacancy. What seems apparent, however, is that America has also entered a power ministry configuration

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Well, actually he favors prevarication.

H. IT SEEMS YOU WOULD REMEMBER SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND BE ABLE TO TELL US.
B. YEAH, BUT I’M TRYING TO GAPLE WITH THE WORD SUGGEST, I MEAN THERE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSIONS OF MATTERS OUT THERE THAT THEY HAVE NOT ASKED ME TO OPEN AN INVESTIGATION, BUT –
H. PERHAPS THEY SUGGESTED?
B. I DON’T KNOW, I WOULDN’T SAY SUGGESTED.
H. HINTED?
B. I DON’T KNOW.
H. INFERRED? YOU DON’T KNOW? OKAY.

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You saw this from earlier today, no?

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I can already see Cohen getting that chicken statue ready

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There is no guarantee whatsoever that Barr will honor his agreement to testify. In fact it’s easy to foresee a two-step in which Trump at the last minute countermands his AG’s decision and instructs him not to attend because of some cooked up claim of privilege or abuse of the process. Barr will then say that it is a matter for the courts to decide whether he should appear or not, but in the meantime he will abide by the direction of the POTUS. Not to be a downer or anything. Moreover this testimony will be of little value without disclosure of all relevant emails and other communications.

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I did. But I can never see it enough. :smile:

I had a dentist’s appointment and couldn’t really comment on everything I wanted to this morning but it’s over now.

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