Posted on 01/23/2020 4:44:52 AM PST by EyesOfTX
The assisted living senators are not dealing well with these long hours. – The U.S. Senate has, more than at any other time in its history, become a home for elderly citizens during the 21st Century. This is in large part due to the fact that it has also more and more become a place to accumulate massive amounts of wealth at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer in recent decades. No one wants to voluntarily leave the gig when there’s always so much more wealth to be grafted.
Thus, this ongoing Kabuki dance of an impeachment trial takes place in what is basically an incredibly wealthy assisted living center. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the long days and late nights are already beginning to take a toll as the silliness enters its third day today. California’s 86 year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein decided she’d had enough of the nonsense as Bug-eyed Adam Schiff droned on late last night, and just got up and left a full hour before the Senate was adjourned:
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, kind of a Senate kindergartener at age 66, was reported to have fallen asleep during Schiff’s lie-filled monologue:
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Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer – a veritable spring chicken of the Democrat caucus at age 69 – has begun exhibiting clear signs of not being all there mentally. Watch as he shooos an imaginary person out of his chair as he returns from a bathroom break:
🇺🇸 Grenni 🇮🇱 @Graenni I have a question, is this Chuck Schumer and did he tell an invisible person to get off his chair?
I zoomed in so you guys could see better. Look at the blonde lady behind him, she looks confused. 🤔
Embedded video 11.3K 5:01 AM - Jan 22, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 10.4K people are talking about this Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Think about this: These are the people who are governing this country right now. Frightening.
But hey, even though the Senators were having a hard time holding their eyes open or avoiding twice-hourly potty breaks during Schiff’s hours of bleating, the guy who bills himself on Twitter as a “national security correspondent” for the Washington Post developed a clear man crush on ol’ Bugeyes:
Greg Miller ✔ @gregpmiller Adam Schiff might be the most underestimated politician California has produced. Many in GOP dismiss him as bland/partisan. But the way he has handled impeachment will leave a mark on history, exceeding nearly all contemporaries.
35.2K 9:45 PM - Jan 22, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 7,371 people are talking about this Can’t wait to hear Greg Miller’s true feelings about Jabba the Nadler or Patrick Leahy. Maybe Netflix will turn the “national security correspondent’s” diary into a 10-episode mini-series.
Of course, the subject matter being considered in this impeachment scam is so utterly and moronically trivial that it’s no wonder the Senators can’t keep their eyes open or hold their bowels. My wife and I are spending this week on a cruise ship filled with people from all over the world, and all I have been able to think about as we have interacted with folks from various other nations is how picayunish this absurd spectacle truly is.
For example, in chatting with our waiter last night, we learned he is a Kurd. He put on a happy face because he is really good at his job, but think about what someone who spends 10 of his 12 months each year working night and day on a gigantic ship and worrying about what might be happening to his family back home must think about how utterly superficial American politics have become.
Before dinner, we spent time in a bar talking with a wonderful group of citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. We talked about current events in their country, which is really struggling economically right now, as well as the collapse of Venezuela and the massive recent oil discoveries off the coasts of nearby Suriname and Guyana, which they are all hoping might positively impact their own island nation.
On this cruise, we have met people from France, where the massive “yellow vest” protests have now been ongoing for 55 weeks, and largely ignored by the U.S. news media. There are similar protest movements taking place all over Europe and South America and Asia right now, and the “national security correspondent” for the WaPo is Tweeting out his love for a pathological liar who has had our own politics tied up hyper-analyzing an innocuous 20-minute phone call that happened 7 months ago.
On this cruise, we have met people from Russia and Croatia and the Phillipines and Hong Kong, all places in the throes of real human struggles of paramount importance, and our corrupt news media is focused on providing maximum exposure for an impeachment that’s like an episode of “Seinfeld,” a show about nothing.
Miller’s right about one thing: Schiff’s conduct of this impeachment scam will indeed leave a mark on history. That mark will be in the form of an indelible black ink stain on our nation’s legacy that can never be gotten out.
What an incredibly shallow society we have become.
That is all.
The Emperor Has No Clothes.
This has described our society since at least Obama’s inauguration. The media tells us black is white and white is black and most people nod their head and accept the Narrative.
The Democrats are impeaching Donald Trump in order to save democracy. Uh huh. Sure. Got it. I bet that’s exactly what’s going on. Chuck Todd told me so.
I hear Nanzi is pitching her own Netflix reality show: "I was a Fact-Checker for Impeachment."
Dave, it doesn’t seem right that you’re working even on your cruise vacation, but thanks! Hearing what people from other countries have to say about current events is interesting.
People need more representation, more Congressmen.
Need 1 Rep for every 30,000 people, not 3,000,000.
Until then, nothing changes.
Need 4000 Congressmen, not 400.
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Wash/Po's Greg Wilson, a (cough) "journalist, is supposed to be reporting on “national security issues” that imperil we, the people.
Instead, he is in obeisance to pathological liar Schiff who has willfully tied up our govt, in an obsessive exercise----
hyper-analyzing an innocuous 20-min phone call that happened 7 months ago.
Schiff’s co-engineering this impeachment scam leaves an indelible black ink stain on our nation’s legacy that can never be gotten out.
Adam Schiff is the most insufferable piece of human excrement I have ever seen in my entire life.
And yes, our society is shallow, but in a number of ways it has also become utterly insane and totally evil.
It’s much worse than just shallow.
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Virginia Sleazaball Senator Mark Warner, kind of a Senate kindergartener at age 66, was reported to have fallen asleep ........
Only a DIVIDE & CONTROL CRIMINAL STATE...
Schiff’s co-engineering this impeachment scam leaves an indelible black ink stain on our nation’s legacy that can never be gotten out.
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As much as I despise Schiff’s treasonous activity, each generation of Americans must deal with the corruption in its time.
On the bright side, the impeachment hearings is a wonderful opportunity for patriotic Senators, Reps, and White House lawyers to exorcise the devils of legal plunder and avarice for power.
So I very much look forward to hearing Jay Sekulow’s spirited and well-reasoned rebuttal of the Shifty shampeachment.
Idiocracy
In Spades.
BTTT post.
This is what happens in a one party media country.
I would have hoped the Republican senators would have moved to dismiss this charade by now, pathetic.
I see two possible solutions:In its 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, the Warren Court modified (weakened) libel law on the basis that ". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment.” But the Bill of Rights was composed to be profoundly conservative. Those who ratified them had no intention to change any existing right. The First Amendment protects the freedom of the press - freedom as it already existed, with already existing limitations for libel (and pornography). This was understood by jurisprudence from the founding all the way to 1964.
- Establish a Senate rule requiring a 55, or even 60, vote supermajority in the Senate to even take under consideration an impeachment from the House which will require a 67 vote majority in the Senate to convict. Anything less is obviously an unserious waste of the time of the Chief Justice and the Senate.
- Sue into oblivion the arrogant journalism cartel which is the result of the continuous virtual meetings of journalism conducted by the wire services:
- Since " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” - Adam Smith, you have to be naive in the extreme to suppose that such “meetings” could go on for a century and a half without producing "a conspiracy against the public.”
- The claim by that cartel that “journalists are objective” incentivizes journalists to go along and get along with each other. Even attempting objectivity requires self-examination and serious reflection, which is neither enjoyable nor, under deadline pressure, even possible. Objectivity is a laudable goal but not a state of being.
- Attempting objectivity is serious business. Going along with each other, and getting along with each other in a mutual admiration society is not.
Overturning Sullivan (a unanimous decision) would be controversial, but it is the right thing to do to tame “the media.”
Establishing a Senate rule to require a supermajority in the Senate to take up an impeachment would be easy, but also easy to override. Both things should be done.
Doesn’t need to be overturned, but limited more and more as such cases bubble up to the Supremes.
I would agree. The fact is that journalism is a cartel, tho - and you could imagine a holding that libel is limited, as Sullivan directs, but only applicable to the wire services and their members/ subscribers.Jim Robinson and his web site wouldn’t be affected at all, but the AP would be in trouble whenever its members goes into full “libel the Republican” mode.
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