Trump's Card

[ursus arctos]

Not necessarily, no. Particularly in state races. You keep looking at this stuff through a UK-tinted lens that distorts your vision.

BTW, the invaluable Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel on Twitter) is live Tweeting the hearing if you would like to save some brain cells.

[ursus arctos]

Tubbs, we’ve been talking about Issa for years. He was Devin Nunes before Devin Nunes.

You really do need to try better to keep up.

[Tubby Isaacs]

We were agreeing on here yesterday that Larry Hogan was very likely to win the Maryland Governorship, so I think that's a bit harsh.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fuck me, that Trey Gowdy rant to Rosenstein. Don't know how much clearer it can be that these people are idiots.

[San Bernardhinault]

At least Darrell Issa is finally retiring this year before he gets voted out of office.

[Tubby Isaacs]

One of the goons who failed to ask questions properly used to be a prosecutor. He couldn't have got somebody pleading guilty sent down on that evidence.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Christ, Jim Jordan was even worse than Gowdy.

He personally accused Rosenstein of redacting material. Rosenstein replied that he was the Attorney General and wasn't sat there doing this sort of stuff.

[Tubby Isaacs]

One from Adama House Cat.

http://www.newsweek.com/russell-walk...a-house-999434

North Carolina state House of Representatives candidate who recently won the Republican primary has claimed Jews are satanic, U.S. soldiers are being poisoned by the government and that God is a white supremacist.

[adams house cat]

Yeah. Heard about that wanker. Scotland and Hoke counties, whilst being fairly close to Raleigh, are rural and and, er, not very progressive. Unfortunately he is not alone. Unlikely that he will be elected but there will probably be a few fellow travelers in the Statehouse come November.

A colleague had a case in Hoke County a year or so ago in which a white man, accused of shooting at a black man, said "If it was OK for my grandpa, why can't I?" or words to that effect.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Pleased to here he's unlikely to win.

In other news

http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump...nctions-998287

IVANKA TRUMP HAD MORE CHINA TRADEMARKS APPROVED ON SAME DAY PRESIDENT LIFTED SANCTIONS ON CHINESE COMPANY

[Gerontophile]

Tubbs, we’ve been talking about Issa for years. He was Devin Nunes before Devin Nunes.

You really do need to try better to keep up.

Or, alternatively, please fucking stop. You are driving the people* who would like to get a hold on anything, me, fucking insane.

*Might be just me, but for fuck sake, go home, kiss your wife, and cat or whomsoever, and just stop pissing on t'chips. This thread has been non-stop for a couple of years now. I know nothing about US politics. BUT FOR FUCK SAKE, IT'S DARREL ISSA. He is the cunt's cunt.

Sorry. It's not you, it's me.

Snake, is there a political version of a concern-bot, and why have you let one (possibly 3) loose on this esteemed shithole** website? x

**I said it's in the post, goddamnit.

Let's hope everyone's /ignore poster button is working well.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Funny, I could just recall the name Issa and that he was retiring. But even if I had recalled more from here, it doesn't prepare you for seeing them speak. I thought the politicians and the shock jocks would be distinguishable.

[Satchmo Distel]

It's another sign of democracy going down the shitter; hearings no longer have any interest in finding information but allow nutters to grandstand under the pretence of asking questions.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is there no chair who can tell people to stop fucking about and ask proper questions? Or is there a chair who's a Trumper?

I don't know who was worse- Issa and his "the question is... um" and the bloke who asked a question after a long rant then interrupted Rosenstein because "we don't have much time" before doing another rant.

[Ginger Yellow]

It's a GOP House committee. They're all grandstanding nutbars.

[ursus arctos]

Goodlatte is the chairman, and is completely committed to the principle that the purpose of such hearings is to provide sound bites for Fox News.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good latter is the chairman, and is completely committed to the principle that the purpose of such hearings is to provide sound bites for Fox News.

Is Burr still being sensible in his Chair role of that senate committee, or has he gone Fox News?

[Ginger Yellow]

I have to say, watching both US (especially House) and EU committee hearings really makes me appreciate Westminster select committees, even if they have fuck all power. There's an element of grandstanding, certainly, but they do mostly genuinely engage on the subject and, unlike the European Parliament's absurd approach, the format is conducive to getting responsive evidence from the witness.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, Westminster Select Committees are good.

[ursus arctos]

Ours were much better before the advent of cable news.

Burr is much better than Goodlatte, but will be tested severely by the hearings on Kennedy's successor.

[HeavyDracula]

Yikes!

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1012411506305036288

[Tubby Isaacs]

That 88 thing is spooky though, at a minimum.

[linus]

Sorry, where are you seeing 88?

Vintage Gigi highlights?

[anton pulisov]

Justice Kennedy's son is Donald Trump's banker at Deutsche Bank. no, really

[Gerontophile]

Funny, I could just recall the name Issa and that he was retiring. But even if I had recalled more from here, it doesn't prepare you for seeing them speak. I thought the politicians and the shock jocks would be distinguishable.

Sorry Tubby. No excuses for being rude.