Related: Another Oath Keeper just pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, with a cooperation agreement. No wonder Roger Stone found Jebus recently.
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When someone committed treason it used to mean something. you used to pay with your life!
Greatest self-own in world history.
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I trust the people on the committee and feel confident they will do an excellent job. They know far better than we do exactly what’s at stake because they know where the bodies are buried. I know it’s really popular around here to pretend that all of our Dem reps are the dumbest people on the planet and that we can only ever fail, but I have great faith in these people. They’ve managed to get 900 people to talk and have amassed over 100,000 documents. I know there are people who think they should’ve done these hearings yesterday, and I’m just thankful none of those people are on the committee. These people know what they’re doing and they understand the extreme importance of their work. I cant wait to see what they put together. As the kids say, it’s gonna be lit.
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Yes, it used to mean that you had said something rude about your nation’s hereditary monarch.
There are very good reasons why we don’t work that way in America, a nation that was literally founded by traitors.
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Like what Homer did to bring the oral tradition stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey from a set of spoken folktales to more unified, cohesive, narratively-focused epic tales.
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Hopefully, the greatest self-own in history will turn out to be Republicans refusing to seat members on the committee.I hope like hell that between the rulings SCOTUS hands down in June and the primetime committee hearings Republicans wind up losing the midterms horribly. It would be a thing of beauty.
ETA: Can you just imagine Qevin’s face when he realizes that everything he did to hang onto power and gain more power is what cost him all the power?
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Yeah he tied it all together with Achilles’ monumental sulking. (snicker)
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In fairness, Qevin did try to seat members on the committee. But Pelosi exercised her authority to reject Gym Jordan and Troy Nehls, which led Qevin to pull all of them.
The bigger self-own was that they had a legislative deal for a bipartisan commission that would have effectively given Republicans a veto over subpoenas, but Fat Donnie Two Impeachments didn’t want any investigation so the Republicans filibustered it in the Senate. Just jaw-droppingly stupid, that was.
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I am impressed with the Democrats on the J6 going about their work. The coming six weeks will not be pleasant for some.
A few of them are probably going to do some stunts to project and deflect
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I could not believe it when they did it. It was so delightful.
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Exactly, he pulled all of his guys off the committee when he could have just replaced the two with people who were loyal to him but not loudly pro-insurrection. That was a self-own if there ever was one.
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And please…let’s not get bogged down into "the Base/Trumpers/GOP will not believe a word of what comes out of this".
For one thing, everybody knows about GOP selective hearing already. Two, we are after other folks to reach.
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I sure hope they’ve learned from Impeachment One: the Blackmail, in which the committee went on for hour after hour, day after day, re-chewing over repeated testimony about each tiny utterance and fact, over and over and over and over.
The whole world will be watching! Make it concise, with sufficient detail but not mind-numbing courtroom-style overkill. Make if flow. Cover the vast extent of the conspiracy and its execution.
Yeah, bring in Ken Burns if necessary. Get a good narrator. Consider somebody with a down-home Southern voice, not a fast-talking, clipped Coaster. Don’t immediately turn off the Ever-Trumper contingent, but DO NOT PANDER to them.
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au·thor·i·al
/ôˈTHôrēəl/
adjective
- belonging or relating to the writer of a book, article, or document.
“no authorial voice interferes to color the scene for us”
IOW, Nancy was a few moves ahead on the chessboard while Qevin was playing snakes and ladders.
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So . . . we’re gonna get the Trumpiad, aren’t we?
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" Trump and his allies and supporters in Congress and the states began readying their failed 2020 plan to overturn the 2024 presidential election later that very same day and they have been unabashedly readying that plan ever since, in plain view to the American public. Today, they are already a long way toward recapturing the White House in 2024, whether Trump or another Republican candidate wins the election or not.
Trump and Republicans are preparing to return to the Supreme Court, where this time they will likely win the independent state legislature doctrine, now that Amy Coney Barrett is on the Court and ready to vote. Barrett has not addressed the issue, but this turns on an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, and Barrett is firmly aligned on that method of constitutional interpretation with Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, all three of whom have written that they believe the doctrine is correct."
And what are we doing? Sticking our fingers in our ears and going LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA I can’t hear you…
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Where they’ll be running footage from “Z Nation” and claiming it’s a live feed from the border, or airing a 20-hour miniseries about restoring your special man powers by tanning your gooch.
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And what are you doing, specifically, about this? Hanging out on a comments board like the rest of us whom you are castigating. So there has to be more that you are doing about it. And I want to hear precisely how they are so much closer to stealing 2024 than - when?
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In January, Thompson said hearings could occur in March or early April. In February, Raskin pushed that window back a month.
“We are determined to get to those hearings quickly in the spring, hoping in April, certainly no later than May,” the congressman said at the time.
Then, in March, plans changed again: “In reality, more like May, just because we have an inordinate amount of depositions to get through,” Thompson told NPR, adding: “It’s a timetable, nothing is set in stone.”
Now in April, plans have changed again. Still, unlike in previous comments about the hearing schedule, Thompson has set a specific start date this time: June 9.
Ok, I knew the June date wasn’t the original. I feel better now that I’m not as crazy as I think I am. And I agree with the point that April has become May has become June and may well become July, August, 2023 and 2030. I suppose it makes sense, but it’s hard to fathom they have this much delay.
I’m hoping, with all these delays, that it will happen in time for midterms. Right now, even in June, it’s looking like it will be too late with respect to the primaries, where some of these people could already have been sent home, having been DQ’d for their participation.
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