It was actually quite a good hearing by the Intel Dems. Will Hurd practically mocked the guy for his decisions, though he was really subtle about it. No one defended anything Trump actually did. People like Nunes and others tried to attack the ‘intelligence’ of the complaint but didn’t actually say any of it was okay.
I think Nunes’ poor joke about wanting to see Maguire behind closed doors like it’s supposed to happen was essentially him calling the acting DNI an idiot for not just walking the complaint/IG letter over the committees as he was required. We would be absolutely nowhere on impeachment without his hilariously gross bad judgment/incompetence.
Yeah we’re going to have to disagree on Nunes. He’s what he’s been for a while now. If the House voted 434-1 to impeach, it’d be Nunes and Gaetz brawling in the cloak room over who got to cast the lone vote.
I’m sure it was a fine hearing, it just wasn’t going to break any major news or anything or change the calculus much. I thought that was pretty clear early on - I watched maybe 30-40 minutes and then went about the rest of my day without worrying about it.
What I’m saying is that he was saying, ‘what kind of special idiot do you have to be to not just do your job? The Intelligence Committee is the cover up committee. No one had to know about this, you idiot.’
Nunes for sure doesn’t want impeachment. He’s exposed, or at least thinks he is based on his behavior that forced him to recuse himself from certain matters on the Intelligence Committee when he was head. It would be amazing for him to get bounced in 2020. I don’t even care if it’s another Republican, I just want him gone and his seniority on that committee gone.
Putin is playing Trump the way I used to play my college dormmates in Risk - goad your enemies into attacking each other and then scoop up what’s left. It’s the only way to win the game.
My mom has a ratsnake living in her backyard that’s about that size. Ofc ratsnakes are harmless and sort of adorable, unlike the lethal poisonous snakes of Australia that murder many thousands of people every year.
