Yeah, it puts the hearing on a bit of a delay, but the livestream itself is live. There's always a tradeoff, and it's just my own preference is to be able to hear the entire thing. Also, the time delay can be caught up by the livestreamer by speeding up the playback for moments like right now, when they're slowly counting the ayes & nays/pausing to count them all up/etc.
"Because they fear democracy; "thuggery," that's what they call democracy. Because this is an elitist point of view..." Schoen's closing statements are excellent.
But they don't want unity, Crowder. They want division. Color revolution 101.
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Always the sign of arguing in good faith.
Sorry, I didn't mean without commentary. That would defeat the purpose of watching it via Crowder. I just get frustrated that they don't hit pause when they speak, because I end up missing about half the actual arguments.
You want Trump's lawyers to make an emotional Hollywood movie that cuts together video and audio that create a series of small lies?
I did not say that.
If your premise is correct, then I cannot see how appealing to their better angels, their sense of fairness, their reasoned consideration, or their faith in foundational documents is going to be any sort of effective strategy.
It's so frustrating that they speak over the hearing, especially when they're just making stupid jokes and observations about stuff like marble. Is it so difficult to hit pause? ffs.
It's a foregone conclusion that it will pass in the house and is dead in the water in the senate. Everyone has already made their decisions. The strategy for this legal team should be acknowledging that this is all political theatre, and the major audience is not the politicians but the public. The Dems clearly understand that. This is how we lose, over and over.
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Man, imagine if Gaetz was up there instead of this useless droning idiot.
This - this exactly - is really the heart of it all.
I never thought I would see this happen in the United States. And be warmly embraced by so many and resisted by so few.
Yeah, and the humvee was in CA as well.
Edit: looks like the 2 bases are about 2 1/2 hours away from one another.
Thanks for these links; that common core story is very interesting.
Yes, I'd heard that about being counted as sold once they are in the bookshops; I thought about it when I was abroad and every bookshop I went to had huge displays of Michelle Obama's book in the windows, piles of them on the display tables and every other display you could think of, and watched as over the months they went from being part of a 3-for-2 deal, then 25%, then 50% off- and still piles of them everywhere, haha. I'm sure that book did well, but the sheer volume of books everywhere was like nothing I'd ever seen before in that city.
You bring up a good point about digital sales as well. That'd be such an easy system to manipulate.
That may be partly the case with the big names like Comey or Hunter, but, similar to the exorbitant speakers' fees corporations give politicians as a way to buy influence, it is certainly used to transfer money as a reward or buy out pay off. For example, immediately after the Yovanovitch testimony at the impeachment hearing, she received a sizable book deal. I'm very familiar with her history, and how much she has always been for sale, and the deal and the advance is a clear pay out for her testimony, not about NYT bestseller placement.
But that's really beside the point; what I was really asking is if anyone knows of anyone who's done investigative reporting about it. What I meant was, like in every industry, from restaurants and hotels, to social work and education, to NGOs and dotcoms, to investment and lobbying firms - even taxicab companies - there are operational schemes and unexpected nuts & bolts people would never even think of, that are common knowledge amongst insiders. (eg. I kind of wonder how the ghost writers are chosen to do the extensive interviews with/for people with security clearance, and who sets them up, who makes the final decisions about the framing and propagandistic slant, what sort of control the intel agencies have over the entire process, etc.) Given how many journalists know people who are prominent the publishing industry, I was curious if there had been any reporting like that that I'd missed.
Out of curiosity, has anyone done some good investigative journalism into the way that the book deal racket works? I bet some interviews with insiders as to the specifics would be incredible.
Reminder that Kinzinger, along with an aide for Paul Ryan and a McCain associate, were the ones that got one of the earliest versions of the piss dossier from Steele.
I found it so interesting that another example of the "accuse others of what you're guilty of" was in their section "Showing up & Standing Down." The whole BS set up in the debates where they demanded Trump disavow, and tell the Proud Boys to stand down, then when he did as they said used it to demonstrate that they were his foot soldiers waiting for his command to wreak havoc on cities, was pure projection.
The article shows how much BLM/antifa were able to be called upon, weaponized, and told to step up or down by a centralized authority coalition of Dem operatives, AFL-CIO, soc media, and orgs like moveon. It's like they couldn't imagine a group that isn't astroturfed to death and used by the powerful to inflict terror upon regular people, because that's the only way they can conceive of collective power. It's fascinating (and disgusting) that they used that exact same "stand down" language in the article to describe their footsoldiers. It feels almost like gloating.
As an aside, the way the article described these groups as so controlled by this one guy and his organization makes me wonder if it opens up a path to lawsuits from the businesses that have been destroyed in the riots this last year.
I highly recommend the Lotus Eaters Podcast coverage and discussion of this article.
Not just a non-US citizen, but one who did not have lawful residence either.
100%. And Dominion has an extensive hit list, including many who do not have the sort of funds to go to court to defend themselves. That one unnecessary statement threw all of them, and all of us, under the bus. Giving Dominion more ammunition for their litigation and threats of litigation will dramatically increase the chilling effect upon any attempt to address fraud going forward.