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10 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I bet they'll still find a way to do nothing.
They might be shaken up now, but just like what happened right after 1/6, they'll gather themselves after a day or two and take the "we must acquit because this trial is unconstitutional" out that they were already going to take.
To be clear, I'll be outraged and disgusted, but unless their constituents are flooding their offices with calls to convict, I'd be stunned if it went the other way.
Ah yes, because that's the argument House managers were making.

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13 Feb
Trump infamously always shoots himself in the foot. Here, he chased off his original lawyers by insisting they argue the election was rigged when just arguing the trial was unconstitutional was probably enough to get him off. So he has to hire this dumbass ambulance chaser 1/x
...at the last minute, the guy has no experience and doesn't seem to even understand he's not in civil court, he tries to bully the Senate into not calling witnesses, which may very well have pissed off enough GOP senators to do the opposite. 2/x
Or even if they weren't pissed off, they no longer had good cover to vote to acquit. In other words, Van Der Veen made it harder to get his client off when he has no business being anywhere near this case in the first place. 3/x
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12 Feb
Kyrsten Sinema sounds like one of those people who makes you want to run headfirst into a wall after five minutes of conversation.

politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
Like, there's no principle at work here. There's nothing sacred about reconciliation, it's just a kludge to keep the Senate from 100% gridlock. She's being obstinate and contrarian just for the sake of it. ImageImage
Raising the minimum wage, even if it's still too low, would help millions of people, and that's less important to Sinema then maintaining some pointless and outdated notions of republicanism. Just gobsmackingly self-centered and stupid.
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11 Feb
*does somersault through brick wall into living room* The Aristocrats!
Yeah, it was definitely this and not a British tabloid's bottomless thirst for tawdry gossip about famous people. Image
There better be a band called Polyamorous Tantric Sex Gurus by the end of the week, or why are we even on this site.
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11 Feb
Unbelievable. They just totally gave up on the kid.
A couple of years ago there were stories about how the Sox had the chance to have one of the all-time great defensive outfields. Now they've traded away Benintendi and Betts and let Bradley go into free agency.
"We traded a former No. 7 draft choice who still has lots of upside for this guy, please still come to the park and buy wicked overpriced beer." Image
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11 Feb
Rudy left a voicemail for crying out loud.
Here's the original story, in which the Dispatch says the unnamed senator who received the voicemail passed it to them. It has been widely reported on. I'm going to have to dig to see if he's ever denied the story before.

thedispatch.com/p/giuliani-to-…
And here's the CNN story where his spokesman confirms it. I dunno, maybe I'm missing something and Lee was mad about something else?

cnn.com/2021/01/08/pol…
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2 Feb
Was just having a conversation on here this morning about Playbook getting even more embarrassing the last few weeks, and, welp.

I get the concern about "mutually assured destruction" regarding committee seats. But there has to be a line beyond which some things are just not acceptable, and Marjorie Greene's insanity should be Exhibit A for crossing that line.
This "Playbook embarrasses itself, bigly" theme could be a running daily thread.

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