***IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING NOV 15 THREAD 1***

[crickets]

Corrected to show CSPAN2

[crickets]

1. I am antsy

Don't know if I will be around all morning to do these, so anyone feel free to pick up the next.

Let's get this show on the road.

[bdamomma]

21. Sure crickets

I will try.

[malaise]

2. 'Good morning

I am not antsy

[MoonRiver]

83. But are you also non-GMO?

[malaise]

86. Hehehehe

[riversedge]

3. NYTimes will be doing live Updates here............

Link to tweet

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[BumRushDaShow]

4. Here is today's link - it is running on CSPAN2 today (not on CSPAN3 like earlier this week)

[crickets]

6. Great - thanks for the link

I have CSPAN 3 up now in my browser, so I think they may have two channels going to help with server load perhaps?

[BumRushDaShow]

14. CSPAN3 on TV has a different program going so am not sure if their stream is going to be different.

[crickets]

18. You are correct - I had the wrong channel. Thanks!

[BumRushDaShow]

23. :D

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[demmiblue]

5. They still have those juvenile signs up, and Gym is still jacket-less.

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Gym Lost-my-whistle-and-jacket Jordan . . . nt

[5X]

13. Same tie, wonder if it is same shirt, etc. n/t

[Bettie]

45. The smell of several-days-old sweat

makes him feel more manly and ready to screech incoherently at everyone!

[FarPoint]

92. I bet he smells like....

a White Castle after a football game.

[Bettie]

127. Yeah...ugh

but that is the impression he gives.

Desperation, grease, and sweat.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Other streams

[FakeNoose]

10. Marie Yovanovich really rocks

I'm wondering if maybe she was one of the original whistleblowers - even though she's not THE Whistleblower. She may have started the ball rolling with the CIA guys and others. I'm happy that we'll get to hear her testimony today.

[demmiblue]

11. Amy Klobuchar:

Memo to: Republican colleagues at hearing
From: Everyone else
Re: Ambassador Yovanovitch

Marie Yovanovitch is an esteemed American diplomat. She was removed from her post for bad reasons. Could you show her the respect she showed all cong. members when they met w/ her overseas?

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

12. Amy Klobuchar has a message for her Repug colleagues regarding Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar
·
10h
Memo to: Republican colleagues at hearing
From: Everyone else
Re: Ambassador Yovanovitch

Marie Yovanovitch is an esteemed American diplomat. She was removed from her post for bad reasons. Could you show her the respect she showed all cong. members when they met w/ her overseas?

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[backtoblue]

15. Stay strong Ambassador

[malaise]

16. Here's Chairman Schiff

Let's go

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Schiff giving opening statement

[bdamomma]

19. thank you

Crickets

[crickets]

22. Y'welcome &

good morning, bdamomma!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Schiff invokes Jr's name

[bdamomma]

24. oh my

I hope she is given some respect by the repig thugs not listening to Nunes. No way

[BumRushDaShow]

29. They won't. Their job is destroy her.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Here comes numnuts Nunes

Mute if needed.

[bdamomma]

38. hitting the mute button

let's see how they make asses out of themselves today.

[demmiblue]

26. I see that creepy lawyer is still there. n/t

[catbyte]

27. Sprinting for the mute button...MOO

[llmart]

28. Whew!

Got to the "mute" button just in time.

[spanone]

30. hey devin, why are you so bitterly angered by transparency?

go fuck yourself

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. Nunes' cow is farting into the microphone!

[Funtatlaguy]

33. Nude pictures of Trump, what the hell, Nunez?

[Botany]

32. Nunes!

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Nunes belongs in jail for mishandling classified docs

and running to the WH with them.

[bdamomma]

40. exactly

he was involved right from the beginning.

[demmiblue]

35. Nunes rails on the "day-long TV spectacles," Democrats' "Watergate fantasies" and "secret"

Nunes rails on the “day-long TV spectacles,” Democrats’ “Watergate fantasies” and “secret” depositions in the Capitol basement where Democrats acted like a “cult.” “Democrats have vowing to oust President Trump since the day he was elected,” Nunes said

Link to tweet

[Sancho]

36. Nunes is a paid Russian operative...

[malaise]

39. Trying to sell a complete inversion of reality

This is comical

[gademocrat7]

37. Nunes is a pathetic lying nutter.

[Mersky]

41. Nunes, your milk is skim, at best.

Weak.

[getagrip_already]

42. I would give anything for her first words to be..

Moo.. cough, excuse me....

[BumRushDaShow]

43. ....

[demmiblue]

44. Nunes is reading the transcript of the first phone call between Trump and Zelensky.

Like it means anything.

[getagrip_already]

50. Sure it does...

Just like going in to bank for years and not robbing it means you couldn't have robbed it yesterday.

Don't you get it?

(Sarcasm)

[unitedwethrive]

57. See...trump doesn't bribe people EVERY time he talks to them.

Apparently for the repubs, this revelation is newsworthy.

[JaneQPublic]

46. Is Nunes recycling the same speech from the other day? (nt)

[riversedge]

47. Sweating Lying Nunes is up........

Link to tweet

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[llmart]

48. Did Numnuts use an entire container of...

Vaseline on his hair this morning?

Ugh.

[barbtries]

51. so is nunes whining anything noteworthy?

i have to mute that asshole.

[BumRushDaShow]

63. He read the 1st call transcript into the record

[catbyte]

52. OMG. STFU already...

[BumRushDaShow]

53. WTF? Transcript - Drumpf - "When I owned Miss Universe"

Did he really want that bullshit in the record?

[riversedge]

54. Some things to know about Marie....

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[demmiblue]

55. Snickers in the room as Devin Nunes reads the "Miss Universe" section of Trump's first call with Zel

Snickers in the room as Devin Nunes reads the "Miss Universe" section of Trump's first call with Zelinsky into the record

Link to tweet

[in2herbs]

56. I'm listening to the background noise of Nunes reading the tele memo into the record. Do the Rs

really expect that the Orange one was that cordial on the phone call when he has not been cordial at all since -- the beginning of time!

[helpisontheway]

58. Nunes has me wishing that someday they will get their karma

And that it bites them in the ass. They are just lying pieces of shit. Ughh

[PA Democrat]

59. Listening to Nunes is like listening to a QAnon podcast

[PA Democrat]

66. And now..... Gym Jordan leads the dancing bears and circus clowns into the hearing.

[DesertRat]

60. Nunes reading the 1st call -NO mention of corruption

Shows that Donald didn't care about Ukraine corruption

[BumRushDaShow]

87. But he wanted Zelensky to know that he "owned Miss Universe"

[DesertRat]

118. I know! So gross.

[DesertRat]

125. Oh man...

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

126. And she mentioned that this woman eventually died after an acid attack against her.

[C_U_L8R]

62. What is Nunes' point?

He's only proving that he can't read and that Trump is an idiot.

[Mike 03]

64. Nunes is reading the transcript of the first call released this morning.

That was the reason for the timing, so repubs could use it today. We'll probably hear it read ten or more times.

[BumRushDaShow]

65. GOP zoo show again - Schiff smackdown

[catbyte]

67. LOL. So that transcript of the first call means he's innocent? "Yeah, officer, I went into that

liquor store in June and I didn't rob it so I must be innocent..." They got nuthin."

[demmiblue]

68. Gym is trying to interrupt Schiff.

STFU, asshole.

Stefanik needs to STFU, as well.

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

69. Nunes reading into the record the April (1st) phone call

"I was born on a Thursday, but I wasn't born yesterday" - madaboutharry

I don't know about you but it sounds ridiculous to me.

And it proves nothing.

Bank robber: "But I was at the bank last Monday and I didn't rob it!"

[catbyte]

70. I love how Schiff is not putting up with any bullshit.

[padah513]

75. He is a beast!

Shut em down Schiff!

[crickets]

78. He is not going to let them speak over him

and railroad their talking points into proceedings. I am so impressed with him.

[crickets]

71. Here's the new tactic

Constant interruptions with meaningless and disruptive "point of order" and "parliamentary" BS...

It's so childish.

[NJCher]

91. the fact that the California rep

started right up with the same bs on this second day of hearings infuriated me. Her "point of order" was nothing but an excuse to claim the republicans couldn't ask questions. I was happy to see Schiff not recognize her. She and another republican who tried the same ruse continued to talk. It made them look immature and unaware of the procedure for these hearings.

Thanks for starting the thread this a.m., crickets.

[mnhtnbb]

72. Republicans are nothing but poo throwing

baboons.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

90. point of order -- that's "monkey" ...

from Friday TOONs by JHB:

[mnhtnbb]

98. Spot on. I hadn't seen it!

[oswaldactedalone]

99. So true

and sad at the same time.

[BumRushDaShow]

73. Yovanoviatch sworn in - giving opening statement

[Mersky]

76. So much twerking, so early on a week day.

But Gym was not recognized.

Stefanik is gonna be as annoying as possible today.

[badhair77]

79. The usual characters trying to obstruct and change the narrative.

[Miles Archer]

77. So, the Cliffs Notes version is Republicans are tripling down on being disruptive assholes. Whoopee.

Jordan: POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDERPOINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER POINT OF ORDER

Schiff: The gentleman is not recognized

Jordan: (smirking) Holy COW.

Fucking CHILDREN.

[BumRushDaShow]

81. That's all they have

[dalton99a]

82. +1

[C_U_L8R]

85. Nunes must have flinched at "holy cow'

The republican tactics are so ridiculous, they're inadvertently self-triggering

[Miles Archer]

89. BWAHAHA!

Didn't even think of that one.

[uponit7771]

97. +1

[oswaldactedalone]

80. The Thug Party reps showing themselves

to be nothing more than spoiled brats. I despise everything about them.

[crickets]

84. Elise Stefanik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Stefanik

Here's the woman being such a rude buttinski along with Nunes & co.

eta It looks like somebody has embellished her wikipedia page slightly. It wasn't me, but it is accurate!

[dalton99a]

88. A Trumpanzee with a Harvard degree

[madaboutharry]

100. Having book smarts doesn't always translate into common sense

or insulate one from becoming a cult member.

[Mike 03]

93. Thank you! I'm listening on satellite radio so I didn't know who this was NT

[BumRushDaShow]

95. ...

One version that was removed -

'''Elise Marie Stefanik''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|ə|ˈ|f|ɑː|n|ᵻ|k}}; born July 2, 1984) is an Republican Obstructionist

[crickets]

105. That's the one. It ain't wrong! Hee. nt

[Raftergirl]

106. I'm in the district next to her's.

We will be working to flip it - just like we worked to get Faso tossed from the other district next to mine.

I’m in a solid blue district so my resistance group has been concentrating on these other districts since 2016.

[Funtatlaguy]

117. She just gave Dems in her District a lot of motivation.

[wnylib]

130. Get rid of Tom Reed, too, while you're at it.

[3catwoman3]

129. I'm thinking of another word...

...that starts with “b” (only one syllable and we’re not supposed to use it here) to describe Ms. Stefanik.

[getagrip_already]

94. I'm impressed with ambassador y

She is clear, concise, and passionate about what she is discussing.

Credible.

[Botany]

96. Damn she is good!

Kent, Taylor, and Yovanovitch all are very articulate.

[crickets]

101. Yovanovitch is obviously nervous (understandably) but

is doing a wonderful job of laying out her background and the scenario she faced, answering a lot of the questions about both Bidens right off the bat. She also managed to discuss Giuliani and the people in the background who had business reasons for wanting her gone. Good for her.

[dalton99a]

110. She has every reason to be concerned about the crime family

and what they might do in retaliation

[Mike 03]

102. She's excellent. This has to be a more difficult opening statement to give

because it's, by definition, more personal and involves attacks against her.

[BumRushDaShow]

103. Yovanovich is speaking for her whole Department

regarding the morale.

[madaboutharry]

104. Testifying as to the damage the Trump administration

is doing to the State Department and to our democracy.

Translation: Pompeo is a failed leader.

[oswaldactedalone]

107. As is the Orange Shitstain

[crickets]

109. +1

[Mersky]

108. The Ambassador made the point she was fired for carrying out her official mission

... fighting corruption in Ukraine.

And that the State dept is being hollowed out from within.

[BumRushDaShow]

111. Schiff questioning now beginning

[demmiblue]

112. That was a thing of beauty. Riveting.

[getagrip_already]

113. No posters today?

I 've been listening more than watching, but I don't see the posters the kids put up weds.

Am I just not seeing them?

[BumRushDaShow]

116. The posters are there

[getagrip_already]

122. Thanks, I guess the w/o cameras aren't point ng..

At them. I'm sure fox is showing them....

[BumRushDaShow]

124. Here's a pic

[Funtatlaguy]

114. Who is The man sitting behind her that keeps rolling his eyes and making faces.

[BumRushDaShow]

115. Schiff question including the corrupt Ukraine politicians with Ghouliani and Jr.

[bdamomma]

119. I feel so bad for her

everything is being documented though.

[crickets]

120. Thread #2 Live

Getting well beyond 100 posts so new thread is up:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212688323

[BumRushDaShow]

121. Democrats' Committee counsel Goldman is up

[Mersky]

123. Whoa. She flew home the day of the Ukraine president's inauguration

So she was recalled then?

Is awful and embarrassing.

[Mersky]

128. So, I may have confused her point

Recalled early in May, days before the inauguration on May 20.

Still is ridiculous, awful, and embarrassing.