What the Hell Happened During Peter Strzok's Testimony?

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22134841/peter-strzok-testimony-what-happened/

It was the most embarrassing episode in representative democracy in 400 years.

During breaks in the action at Thursday’s ludicrous puppet show in the House of Representatives, while Peter Strzok was enjoying a richly earned break from being badgered by morons, I scoured the intertoobz for something (anything!) to read that didn’t involve Louie Gohmert’s head spinning off toward Anacostia.

I came upon this interesting report from the Financial Times which did, in its own way, put everything that happened in the House in a different kind of context. It has to do with the essential subject under discussion—namely, that the president* of the United States is something of a wholly owned subsidiary of Russian oligarchs, who have kept his business afloat and who had a great deal to do with how he became president*. It concerns a Trump Tower project in Toronto.

Here are the simplest of the simple facts. Russia currently is run by a former KGB goon whose geopolitical goals include the destabilization of this country and the Western alliance generally. Russia also is a deeply criminal kleptocracy that profits only those oligarchs who stay on the goon’s good side. (Several of the ones who failed to do that ended up dead.) At this point in his business career, the president* of the United States could not find a bank in the United States who would give him a loan. So, he went overseas and found a number of friends among the Volga Bagmen.

I'm loving this take on the hearing. I refuse to watch any of the clowns but his take is great!

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1. we aren't quite there yet

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

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4. Christ I hope we don't get to that point

A few of the repubs today acted like they wanted to cane strok.

[NewJeffCT]

10. wow read that quickly

and thought it was Caning of Charles Schumer

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13. LOL

[murielm99]

2. Did you by any chance see

Lawrence O'Donnell on Colbert? He spoke about working for Moynihan, and setting up hearings for him. He said he must have been in one hundred hearings and never seen anything like this one. The participants did not shout or talk over each other in this way. Not once.

Yes, they are clowns.

Good article!

[ribrepin]

3. No I forgot

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5. No doubt

the Donald owes the Russians bigly. The news wires should burn brightly after the one-on-one with Uncle Vlad on Monday.

[donkeypoofed]

6. The Russian Mob owns Spanky and is trying to run or ruin the world

[dweller]

7. Jesus f**k

that's a read... k&r

[ribrepin]

8. Yeah - it is quite a read

[underpants]

12. Def Congress Jam

It was a performance piece. It was not a very well-cast one, and several of the lead actors fell into the orchestra pit, but it managed to run from curtain-up to curtain-down.

Yes it was quite a read

[RandomAccess]

14. I loved that line --

It was, as it was called at various points in the hearing, a kangaroo court, a show trial, and a travesty of a sham of a mockery of a sham of two mockeries. But it was designed to be that. It was a performance piece. It was not a very well-cast one, and several of the lead actors fell into the orchestra pit, but it managed to run from curtain-up to curtain-down.

[vlyons]

9. What happened?

The GOP put on a big hate-monger butt show. And that was their better side.

[Hekate]

11. Well worth reading the whole thing. "The Padishah Emperor of Crazy": Louie Gohmert

He names all the Repubs in the lynch party similarly, and his analysis of their pathology is spot on.

[peekaloo]

15. GoPro at the Monkey cage.

Unfortunately the poo flinging was hampered by monkeys who can't seem to find their own asses with both paws.

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16. Kick for visibility

Good read - they are saying it right out loud now