WATCH: Courtroom Blow Up From WI Election ‘Investigator’

The partisan investigator tasked by Wisconsin Republicans with examining the 2020 election in the state could face professional consequences after berating a judge and opposing counsel during a hearing for a public records lawsuit last week. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1420140
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Further proof that the Big Lie attracts the craziest amongst us to come out of their once-respectable shell.
It was the same for the Nazi’s Stabbed in the Back Thesis.

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Someone should take Gableman out behind the woodshed and teach him some manners and decorum. I would like to volunteer for that assignment.

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“The circus Gableman created in the courtroom destroyed any sense of decorum and irreparably damaged the public’s perception of the judicial process…”

I’m pretty sure that was the point. Screaming and yelling to drown out your opponent is how these pieces of shit operate.

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The fact that Gableman was a sitting justice on the WI Supreme Court is a damned travesty.

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Gableman has gone what we call “full Rudy”.

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So there was dripping hair dye in the court?

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Recipe? Or is that just straight shots from the bottle?

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Just a wild guess, but he was probably quite a bully as a kid.

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And took a few knocks on the side of the head or helmet, himself.

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Only the best people! :roll_eyes:

So hard to believe this guy was a state supreme court justice. What the hell happens to TFG supporters that makes them abandon all common sense, reason, logic, manners…I could go on but you get the picture.

What is this phenomenon? Seriously, not snarking (but perhaps more of a rhetorical question). Is it just the cult dynamics? Is this just how cults work, I guess? :thinking:

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I feel sorry for any defendant that was in a case presided over by this former judge.

The outrage performance has been SOP on the right for a long time. Although it did not take him to point it out to know about this, Krugman has observed the culture of displaying explosive rage at minor inconveniences in his columns which is common among right-wing punditry. It is attack, over-the-top unhinged emotion all the time.

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Gableman could just be your basic paranoic jackass but I wonder if anyone who cares for him, assuming he has such, has had him tested for dementia.

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I am in an ongoing legal issue with a far right wing attorney who clearly tries to bluster and shout his way out of his pitiful lawyering. Our attorney is actually having fun bringing him to a boiling point.

I’ll leave it at that.

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sounds like my dad when he was his own lawyer while getting divorced from my mom

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You know the old saying: “When the law is on your side, pound the law. When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When you have neither, just pound the table.” Gableman is an embarrassment, though I expect nothing less from Wisconsin Republicans. I hope he loses his license, at very least.

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Fox News Brain on full display.

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One of the fundamental things about TrumpWorld is that they all behave with a sense of complete impunity from the law, the rules of civil discourse, and respect for truth.

Of course Merrick has so far granted them impunity.

OT, but what’s the deal with Luttig? It’s like a YouTube video slowed down to half speed and on a repetitive loop.

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Seems Trumpers don’t know the law, and like to be out of order.

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Of course, the “stab in the back” legend lives on in its various permutations.

The whole notion that Versailles was some kind of Carthaginian peace that ground Germany into the dust was a myth fabricated by the Nazis and other far-right elements (like the German General Staff, which undermined the arms limitations from the beginning). The problem was not the terms, but the lack of enforcement.

Thus, for crybabies like Macron to say we must be careful not to humiliate Putin because something, something Versailles (Kissinger has mumbled the same nonsense) shows that the lie is still believed 100 years later, and by the French of all people, who suffered as much as anybody precisely because of it.

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