This is an absolutely stunning video of Marco Rubio before they made him into a #meatpuppet. Talk about mental decline - I didn't even remember Rubio knew how democracy worked. (THANK YOU @doms_mom03 and I hope it's OK I'm boosting your thread)
While we are reliving Cruz's transformation into a pathetic #meatpuppet, here's Cruz talking about Trump's association with David Packer and calling Trump a pathalogical liar. Way to go, Cruz.
Rand Paul has always been a #meatpuppet, but here he is before he was Trump's puppet. Here he is saying the Senate should maintain some power to counterbalance the executive. LOL.
Dear Texas: Did you know the budget for CEO's office ERCOT was $2,100,000+ for salaries and benefits? (and of course there's permanent savings by not hiring the person that was to have earned $53,000 per year - expendable). #TexasBlackout#ERCOT
At least the Corporate Communications team will feasting while it tries to tell you that it didn't let you freeze to death. (Yes that's over $6,000,000 in salaries and benefits).
And I don't know what these other offices do, but it doesn't really seem like the people got their $130,000,000's worth. ercot.com/content/wcm/ke…
Ruben Verastigui is (allegedly) a horrifying pedo monster and has been on the digital teams for the @SenateGOP, National @GOP and the Trump campaign. I didn't want to talk about him, but I think it's important.
The allegations against RV are among the most horrifying I have read. It involves possessing and sharing images of rape of infants and plans to take action in the real world of that nature. I don't really recommend reading the details, but they are here. lawandcrime.com/high-profile/f…
These allegations were first brought to light by @jaredlholt who has an excellent thread. He warns people that they may want to avoid the end of the thread because it includes shots of the specific allegations. I make the same warning.
Dark Dirk dons a DonJT hat and ponders the next moves. A thread.
I periodically try to peer into the crystal ball and guess what's happening down the pike. When I put on the Trump hat, I'm usually wrong, because I ALWAYS underestimate how low the slithering bottom feeders will go to please dear leader ... but let's look.
So ... first, Trump (and Trumpists) will never concede defeat. ever. The lies are too lucrative and Trump gets off on the pain suffered by his minions and his opponents. forbes.com/sites/jemimamc…
I agree, and I'll explain, since there are so many doubters: 1) The Dem managers are brilliant, and made this choice based on their superior fund of information- this is not incompetence. It is therefore either strategy, or determined by things outside the impeachment @gregolear
My best guess as to those reasons: 1) live witnesses are unpredictable and can say things that hurt a case. Hostile witnesses are hard to control - much easier/better to use their own videotaped in real time words, where you know what they'll say.
2) live witnesses take much more time than video clips, and preparing for a live witness takes much more time than the testimony. Adding 1 and 2 together, I'd guess the managers decided to make sure this case was TIGHT and done on time, so Dems can move on to their agenda.
Let's run back on the questions and see what we've learned so far. I am certain we are still in tip-of-the-iceberg territory. Like, for example, WHY HAVEN'T WE HEARD FROM MIKE PENCE? but I'll leave that for later.
Barr and the federal response: We've learned that the National Guard response was hamstrung by "reforms" put in by Barr who also led the attack on protestors ... so, I don't think Barr is out of the woods.
USCP logistics - these suspicions have been confirmed. Police were ORDERED not to be equipped and not to use deadly force. We still have learned almost nothing about how those orders came to be.
Gosar is at lectern when unknown person runs up to say "protestors have ... ". He looked nervous up to that point. BUT HE DID NOT LOOK SURPRISED ABOUT THE PROTESTORS.