Somebody on Twitter said he gave off a real Councilman Jamm vibe and holy shit this could be a still from Parks and Rec.
Yeah, that was a superb wrap up by Schiff. Her reaction around 1:15 is really good.
As long as you donāt pronounce āmess aroundā like him itās fine
Sure, in the bigger picture, but Iām just talking about what the story coming out of today specifically will be. IMO, because the Ambassador was already out of the picture before a lot of the important events related to the phone call and the aid suspension took place, her testimony didnāt really move the ball forward much on that narrow issue.
IF you can connect the pieces that she was fired in order to clear the way for the later extortion (I think she clearly was), then the two issues are related, but it takes some dot connecting to get there and I honestly donāt know if the dots were connected clearly enough to cut through the R noise. Iāve just come to the realization that Iām following this way too closely to have any idea how it plays with the normies.
I ended up getting a call, so I had to stop watching live but here are some of my key takeaways.
The GOP just absolutely wrecked themselves today. They couldnāt attack Yovanovitch on any substance, so they either didnāt even bother asking questions or filibustered most of their time. If I put a montage together for this, I would be having them talk about how much they love her service, and then the whole Burisma, Biden, Obama nonsense. If the audience kept with this, it will do well for the rest of the hearings which are where all the big stuff will come out.
Castor was so lol, helping make the case for the Dems and asking tons of questions he didnāt know the answers to. Nunes is one of the biggest jokes I have ever seen. Heās basically phoning it all in, and has to know he looks like a moron. But who knows? Maybe he doesnāt.
Now Iāll go down the list of the 5 minute rounds for the GOP and a few of the Dems to give my in context takes:
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Nunes/Stefanik: LOL, Nunes asking āwhy are you even here?ā was hilariously dumb. She was in the phone call you halfwit, and that still doesnāt justify you getting to call Haunter Badden.
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Conaway: He wants no part of this, and says āhey soft landing, all good, right?ā I wish she would have said itās about as good of an outcome as the Ukranians got. He had zero substance related to what they were there for.
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Turner: Heās a regular Percy Mason. He does his best attempts to look smart and act smart, but heās too dumb to even get to his conclusion because he wasted so much time. Even Hamilton Burger would have mopped the floor up with this guy.
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Wenstrup: What we learned was that Wenstrup really appreciates himself, and likes to talk about Obama. Also, him being called to active duty for a reason is apparently the same as her getting recalled from duty for no reason. He totes gets it and can totally relate to what sheās going throughā¦lol. I feel like he would be a doctor like the one from the last Luther or from American Horror Story season 2.
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Stewart: He talks about an enormous amount of evidence. He talks about year 4 of Trumpās impeachment despite us not even being 3 years into Trumpās presidency. The enormous amount of evidence is that he is a moron and totally in the tank for Trump.
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President Stefanik: Well, I guess she didnāt want any part of questioning someone she actually worshiped prior to slamming Schiff about the WB for 5 minutes. GJGE.
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Hurd: Filibusters with Yovanovitch about things she doesnāt know. He called it the Zelenskyy regime multiple times. Wow.
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Ratcliffe: Heās the Hamilton Burger to Perry Mason. Good thing this guy isnāt a prosecutor anymore, because he is completely incompetent. Iām glad he was able to get in Haunter Badden and Burisssssssssma. You see, you see, you see, she said something about it, so Haunter is a FACT witness. I canāt remember who mentioned it, but someone said that Bidenās only two responsibilities were Ukraine and China. They forgot to fill in the gap about Haunter and China, because of course they did.
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Gym Jordan: LOL. I could have sworn this guy was just going to filibuster, but I guess they all got together and said, āyou know, someone needs to ask some questions or this will be a disaster. Letās have Gym do it, heās awesome!ā LOL. He made sure to get in some of that sweet QAnon drug bringing in Fusion GPS. Is he going to get kicked off this committee by the end of this for effing everything up for them? Heās only here because of Nunesās incompetence and idiocy, and letās just say heās not up to the challenge without followers like Gaetz and Gohmert to help him in his clown show.
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Nunes Close: This guy. Heās an absolute champ. At least he knows itās not a good idea for him to talk longer than a minute. Example: His Opening Statement: The ReDeux
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Swalwell: His start was really good, but he really screwed up at the end. He messed up a call date (said August 21 when it should have been April 21). He also messed up some facts pretty badly toward the end that she agreed with trying to show his indignation. Iād have to look it up to remember what he screwed up, but it ended up being a wash for him.
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Krishnamoorthi: He had the best āhiddenā moment reveal in the hearing. He made the excellent point that from the point Yovanovitch was recalled to when Taylor went out that there was nearly a month between them where the āirregular channelā was operating with no additional knowledge doing whatever they wanted. Thatās, um, horrifying.
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Yovanovitch was a great witness. She had to tolerate bullshit like Gym who asks her enormously leading questions that she could rip to shreds that he would then reduce to one word answers where she would have to agree with him. It would be so amazing for him to lose in 2020, but his people probably like his brand of idiocy and absolute abdication of his Congressional oath.
Overall I think this was a way more effective hearing than Wednesdayās, and that one was good.
Iām biting the bullet to hear Chuck Toadās analysis, because Iām just dying to know his perspective.
When asked whether what Trump did was intimidation to a sitting witness, Gym Jordanās response was basically, āsheās served 5 tours in hardship areas, so Iām sure she can take itā. They got nothing.
Itās not even that it was intimidation of a sitting witness. The more important signal that Trump is sending is for future witnesses to watch their backs.
https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1195368343412379648
Brennan 2020?
(note I literally know nothing about him other than this tweet and blue checkmark - donāt @ me)
Pretty sure Brennan would be reviled on this board but for his Never Trumper status. He would make a good spades partner for Trump in prison.
My feeling is that any witness willing to come forward is doing so specifically because of the āthreatā of Trumpā¦the national security threat that he is. They wonāt care about his Twitter smears, if theyāre coming forward.
Also, just wanted to note that my day 1 GOP prediction stuff applied to day 2, and my day 2 prediction came true.
Imoā¦ After watching some MSM cnn & msnbc and some tweets is that Trump & Co lost their bite today, nothing is landing and a LOT of hot air has been took out by that tweet today that even FOX news said it was an article of impeachment all on its own.
One of these Billionaires should make an add attacking Trump and his closest (friends) (I know he has none) wrt how this criminal canāt even pardon his criminal friends after doing his dirty work like right now and have it airing.
Show him up for the Dog that is Donald Trump who letās you do the crime and time when only he can pardon them and heās not.
Trumps play over the weekend should only be to pardon Stone to show strength and his followers that he their for them, I believe if he doesnāt do this all the HotAir will flow from his balloon in a matter of days/week. I think 
Yupā¦ I have hope today that heās going down.
Good on Speier telling them they canāt just put malpractice journalists under an opinion umbrella and shrug their shoulders.