dagblog - Comments for "Friday's Hearing"

Thanks for that.

moat — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:46:50 +0000

In reply to Here's a nice lady who can

Thanks for that.
No martial art references needed.

Here's a nice lady who can

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:31:15 +0000

In reply to It was a dog and pony show

Here's a nice lady who can undoubtedly kick Trump's ass without breaking a sweat.
Not that I consider being Rambo-like a prerequisite for doing intelligent diplomatic work (think Macron or Justin Trudeau are martial arts types? Bill Holbrook or Madeleine Albright?). And then all these people Trump surrounds himself with are lying loud-mouthed pussies - like Pence or McConnell or Nunes or Rudy or William Barr seem like they wouldn't get knocked down in 2 secs in a bar fight? Or Trump, Our Lady of the Mystical Bone Spurs, the guy who has to pay $100K for sex? All so laughable, day in, day out.

Finally listened to full Megan Rapinoe speech citin Kaepernick. It’s beautiful. My God we need more Rapinoes pic.twitter.com/BifgMWOQd2
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) November 13, 2019

It was a dog and pony show

moat — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:33:18 +0000

In reply to Trump didn't attack Wednesday

It was a dog and pony show with the Fox team who moaned about this chick not being tough enough to take criticism.
Women make good porn stars, secretaries, or serial wives but don't ask them to back you up when you threaten to take their testicles away. They won't notice the absence.

Forever Trumpers , yeah. But

Flavius — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:45:29 +0000

In reply to The GOP base hates smart

Forever Trumpers , yeah. But there are smart women from various economic levels supporting him for specific issues ,chiefly abortion, who will have been deeply offended by the spectacle of the loud mouthed bully with two guns blazing at this smart accomplished woman but invisible when his accusers are real men like Taylor and Kent.

What a jerk.

Love this:

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:43:06 +0000

In reply to Friday's Hearing

Love this:

https://t.co/gvmgaGXCla
— Max (@maxtaves) November 15, 2019

The GOP base hates smart

NCD — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 05:15:40 +0000

In reply to Trump didn't attack Wednesday

The GOP base hates smart ambitious and accomplished women, the list is long there. Even the low education white "working class women" go along, he won't lose Forever Trumpers with this performance.

I think Flavius definitely

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 04:05:47 +0000

In reply to Trump didn't attack Wednesday

I think Flavius definitely has Trump's number on this one! Certainly sounds correct to me.

Edit to add: this is why he has only limp noodle yes men left assisting, anyone with any gravitas always leaves. I'm not talking politics or policy here, I'm talking personal character and confident ego.

Trump didn't attack Wednesday

Flavius — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:18:04 +0000

In reply to With a Tweet, Trump Upends

Trump didn't attack Wednesday's testifiers because they awere impressive men and he was afraid of

them.

Friday's witness was a woman. So that was OK. Could handle them So he went back to letting Donald be Donald.

He's not dumb. Nor completely lacking in self aware-ness. He knows he would have been terrified if he'd been forced to copy Taylors military career, . And by a mechanism which I 'll just state without defending , in the company of heroic men he is aware of his inadequacies and he desperately maneuvers so to avoid being trapped in a situation where he might have listen to them tell him what they think.

He's a worthless imitation of a human being .He knows it. He hates it.

Good.

You forgot to calculate in

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:13:16 +0000

In reply to Friday's Hearing

You forgot to calculate in the "professional victimhood" https://t.co/qCICDwN5nb
— Jazz jingle (@Bud66498179) November 16, 2019

With a Tweet, Trump Upends

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:59:07 +0000

In reply to Friday's Hearing

With a Tweet, Trump Upends Republican Strategy for Dealing with Yovanovitch

House Republicans planned ahead, hoping to strike a respectful tone at Friday’s impeachment hearing. Mr. Trump’s tweet was exactly the kind of attack they had hoped to avoid.

By Michael D. Shear @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 15

WASHINGTON — Heading into Friday’s impeachment hearing, the Republican strategy for dealing with Marie L. Yovanovitch was simple: treat the ousted ambassador to Ukraine with respect during her testimony on Friday and avoid any appearance of bullying a veteran diplomat who had been vilified and driven from her post.

President Trump blew up the plan [....]

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On the first day of the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, the president had managed to avoid commenting about the two men who testified — William B. Taylor Jr., the top diplomat in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a senior State Department official.

But his inability to hold his fire on Friday raised fresh doubts among his allies and White House advisers about what he will do next week, when eight witnesses are scheduled to testify in public hearings over the course of three days.

Mr. Trump did not clear his Friday tweet with top White House aides before putting it out, leaving some of his advisers deeply dispirited. Privately, they acknowledged he had done himself damage.

Not long after Mr. Trump’s tweet, his son Donald Trump Jr. fired off his own broadside, tweeting, “America hired ⁦‪@realDonaldTrump‬⁩ to fire people like the first three witnesses we’ve seen. Career government bureaucrats and nothing more.”

Mr. Trump’s congressional allies had largely held back from those kinds of direct attacks on Mr. Taylor and Mr. Kent. They had planned to be especially careful with Ms. Yovanovitch.

On Thursday, they met for several hours in Room HVC-215 of the Capitol for a practice session aimed at coordinating their overall message, with members who were not on the Intelligence Committee playing the parts of the former ambassador and Representative Adam B. Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the Intelligence committee.

One thing they were clear about: They intended to use the same care grilling Ms. Yovanovitch that Republican senators tried to employ during last year’s testimony by Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh of assaulting her when the two were in high school, according to one person close to the House Republican leadership.

Mr. Trump didn’t get the message — and Democrats seized on the political opportunity he handed them. Not long after the president tweeted his thoughts on Ms. Yovanovitch, Mr. Schiff read it aloud, to Ms. Yovanovitch and the cameras [....]