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So are they saying she’s the shortest midget in the circus?

Kapler should of yanked Wood. 😏

Quick, call the election for tomorrow!

TBF, it was kind of an unforced error, something that doesn’t have the upside of advancing the case at all but has the total downside of derailing everyone’s attention from what’s important. It was the opening they needed to throw doubt on everything being said int he proceedings. No way she could have been a deep plant specifically to plant that doubt, right? 🤔

Related to this, I was very excited when NBC released practically all the SNLs from 45 seasons on their steaming app, and just as disappointed that practically none of them included the music performances, basically because of rights issues.

I mean really.

All that’s missing is “look into it.”

I think Bob Seger is going to be OK.

I would clarify that I am not an atheist per se. That would suggest that I am certain these is no god. I am certain of nothing. We cannot know until there is either a revelation, or perhaps after we die we learn some truth, which I am holding out as a possibility, since there’s no way to know beforehand absent a revelation.

Like you say I think it would have to take an out-and-out revelation. Otherwise you have to have faith and nothing else, and with hundreds of thousands of gods that have served 100 or so billion people across the millennia, which one do you choose?

Especially since he’s vulnerable to prosecution himself.

It is to them—I’ve already gotten that one in reply!

These testimonies are planned for when the 118th Congress, dominated by Republicans, hold their own hearings investigating the Democrats who wasted government time and resources, thereby weakening our nation, by going after a private citizen who isn’t in power anymore and who nobody cares about anymore and can’t we just move on already because gas is $5 a gallon.

My impression is that evangelical women are truly and fully invested in the patriarchy, since their entire sense of identity is wrapped up in worship of the Ultimate Patriarch. And the idea that the powerful men in their lives, whether their husbands, pastors, political leaders, etc., are ordained by God to reign over their lives is more than just a metaphor to them. I can’t envision an en masse defection from Trump among evangelical women.

LOL!

I'm pretty sure we've crossed the Rubicon by now: Justice has no choice but to bring a case against Trump. If they don't, then the power of despotism, tyranny, violence, and chaos will win. And further to the point, Justice must win its case against Trump, because if they don't, the power of despotism, tyranny, violence, and chaos will win. One question I have is how will Trump find a way to weasel out of it? Does he leave the country and go to where he can't be extradited? Does he take his own life? Or is he going to do the thing that seems unimaginable: just sit tight and wait to be arrested and then tried? Frankly, I have trouble envisioning any one of these three things happening. Or does something so cataclysmic happen, orchestrated or not, that will force this whole affair to be put on the back burner? It's really a bad spot to be in, not just for him but for all of us. But, here we are.

Thank god Secret Service agents take an oath to defend the Constitution, rather than to serve the person.

That guy had better receive a 24/7 detail to protect him.

Preferably Eric.

By calling her a “leaker”, Donald Trump just confirmed that Hutchinson is telling the truth. Otherwise, he’d be calling her a “liar”.

Now that this hearing session is over, let the character assassination of Cassidy Hutchinson commence!

I had her pegged for early 30s, and she was very poised for that age.

“They’re not here to hurt me” strikes me as a more crucial statement than it is getting attention for rat the moment. How Trump said this phrase is really crucial. The way Hutchinson testified, he basically said, kind of flatly, “they’re not here to hurt me”, maybe even a little emphasis on hurt. That would suggest they otherwise are there for something else, such as “they’re here to love me instead”, or “they’re here to praise me instead.” Something like that. But if the way he said it put the emphasis on a different word—as in, “they’re not here to hurt me”—then we’re talking about a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. Because then the alternative could only be, “they’re here to hurt someone else”. And we all know who that someone else is. And that would mean he had foreknowledge of impending violence, and might even suggest even that he would approve of it. I kind of doubt they’ll try to follow up on that, but I think that’s a pretty important distinction.