This.
Give me the one person who stood up, called them insurrectionists who deserved to hang on the WH lawn, and then walked out of the Oval Office while pulling up all their media contacts for an immediate press conference about what’s going down in that big white building behind me.
That’s what a sane person does. Even in the world of politics, some situations don’t call for quiet reflection and posturing.
At least that’s how I see it, and I’m no revolutionary … at least not yet.
Welcome.
Trump’s Schweddy balls are reserved exclusively for Lindsey Graham.
… And the people who depend on you to pay the mortgage, put food on the table, perhaps pay for an elderly family member’s care or assist with a loved one’s medical troubles? There are often many issues which make doing the “right thing” complicated.
There are no limits to the punishments that Trump, Flynn, Powell, Byrne and Giuliani deserve.
Oh me oh my, now you’re justifying a coup because grandma needs her heart medicine?
Take a good long look at Ukraine. You see any people making stupid arguments like yours? You see anyone arguing that doing “the right thing” is too hard because you need to eat and you’re a coward? Wake the fuck up pal. The road to fascism is paved with lazy losers who don’t want to be inconvenienced.
Assholes wearing hats in the White House. Pure class.
I have a Nest thermostat, and I must say that it has never tried to corrupt an election in my household, at least not that I’m aware of.
You seem to think I don’t understand that.
You don’t seem to get that there are times when those concerns, pressing though they are, amount to excuses that simply don’t fly.
You can perhaps forgive them.
I won’t.
You appear to believe your dinner options are democratically selected. How quaint. 
I liked the part where Rudy was hanging out by himself in the Cabinet Room, thinking just how cool it was. Yeah, Rudy always wanted a Cabinet post. This was as close as he ever got.
Powell is just a garden-variety dumb and crazy person who’s fixing to lose her license to practice. I’m much more offended at Cleta Mitchell, a Foley & Lardner partner who very definitely knew better than to help Fat Boy attempt to defraud the United States.
Trump was a tool of the real insurrectionists - the Evangelicals who want a theocracy, the white supremists who want a “pure” nation, the gun nuts who worship the AR-15, the “don’t tax successful billionaires” crowd. What they didn’t count on was Trump’s insanity, which probably (but not certainly to any extent) derailed their plans at this point.
Next time, they run on a program of Trumpism without Trump. But if Trump’s ego prevails and he announces his candidacy before the midterms the Democrats might, just might, retain the House and take the Senate.
Yeah, that’s stupid. “Team Normal” works for me, because it evokes business as usual for a career Republican, finding every legal loophole to advance the GOP agenda. The crazies just tossed out the legal part.
Raskin said at the Tuesday hearing that the group “gain[ed] access to the building through a junior White House staffer,” and walked into the Oval Office to greet Trump.
Is this “junior White House staffer” our mystery tampered-with witness?
So, did anybody at the Trump White House ever spend any time working on, you know, the business of governing the nation and leading the world? Asking for a friend…
Trump was still pushing to name Powell special counsel. He, the committee said, asked Cipollone whether he had the authority to appoint her, whether she could get the needed security clearances.
This seems muddled. Only the AG or Acting AG may appoint a special counsel. Barr wasn’t going to do that, and after Barr left, the current Acting AG and much of DoJ leadership threatened to resign when TFG attempted to install a toady as Acting AG. Perhaps Cipollone was saying that yes, Powell could likely get the security clearance?
The opening line of the Special Counsel statute:
§ 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.
The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted
Cipollone presents well too, and is precise in his answers. Oozes competence. But I’m sure he and I would disagree on just about everything in politics.
It’s just a Thing they’d heard about that seemed cool. They didn’t have to know any more about it than they did about anything else like, say, how votes get counted.
I like that tidbit the committee threw in today, with a photo: that meadowmuffiins escorted ghoulsie out, to make sure he didn’t get back into the white house.