I have said it before and will say it again--Jamie Raskin and his team are masters at owning the GOP! It was all I could do not to cheer out loud at their performance. I missed the part where MTG actually brought out more porn. She really is the expert. I’m so proud to be a Democrat.
Relieved to be a Democrat too. I assume Biden can pardon his son, which should somehow get out to the Republicans, as how to waste the taxpayers money and everyone else's time. Try to convict the President's son, whom the President can pardon anyway. I personally think all of them should face contempt charges, and perhaps the Justice Department can go after them.
As usual, great takes. I loved the Jerry Springer reference, because that is what Republican House proceedings are.
I don't know if this was where Jasmine Crockett uttered forth her viral tirade (I use that word in a very positive sense) or not, but man, I could watch Ms. Crockett all day. She took those idiots down.
What is sort of magical about her is that she does these tirades but is so cogent through it even when she seems mad. When I get mad, my mouth is full of marbles.
Love her, too. I think she is a rising star for the Democrats. She is at turns hilarious, inciteful, caring for her constituents, and articulate in her own personal way.
Wow, thanks for sharing this link! What a blistering take down of the R's! Jasmine Crockett needs a medal for calling them out the way she did! Too bad her speech is unlikely to be aired on any MSM, let alone FOX, etc.
Well. Well. Well said!!!! Rep. Crockett kicked some BOOTY with her cogent and complete remarks -- amazing to watch and listen to her CALL. THEM. OUT. I wish the Dems would put her comments up as an ad on EVERY TV and radio station in the country. Thanks for sharing the link, Charles. Much appreciated.
I can't choose between Raskin, Moskowitz or Crockett. They are all my favorites! The Republicans are so dumb...I wasn't sure if I was watching C-Span or a hi-speed mashup of The Keystone Cops, The Three Stooges and an episode of the Jerry Springer Show. What an embarrassment for this nation.
Jared Moskowitz's brilliant bit of rat-f**kery in holding up a blown-up photo of tRump and Jeffery Epstein smiling away shoulder-to-shoulder was comedy gold, and put the entirety of the moronic Hunter Biden clownshow in proper perspective.
By that time, Comer had lost the plot, and it was like open-mic at Comedy Central.
You just made me think that maybe Comedy Central is missing an opportunity by not doing some live feeds of these events with a Mystery Science Theater type of live commentary.
The writers at SNL can go home for a rest; they just have to run the tape of this ridiculous hearing on Jan. 13. The entire thing. From Mace to Greene to Moscowitz to Raskin to Crockett to Comer covering his eyes -- oy vey!!!!! Wouldn't even take too much editing. They could label it as a PSA for Democracy ;-)
Wearing a Smurf on his tie... I could hardly breathe for laughing. Thank you Jay for the always masterful humor you add when recounting these events. This sort of unscripted and yet epic stage direction from the Dems is something 10 years ago I would have expected from an SNL skit, funny but implausible. And yet here we are.
That was a really cool bit of information, and awesome that he wore the Smurf tie. Democrats like him and Crockett are really learning how to handle these oafs.
The Democrats need to do more of what their committee members were doing yesterday.
Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle :
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) encapsulated this best when he blasted his own Republican colleagues in a speech in November on the House floor:
“For the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something … and then do nothing about it. One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing—one—that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!”
Roy dared any Republicans in the room to come to the floor and “explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”
Just because he is exasperated with his own party doesn't turn him into a good guy. Mr. Roy is no prize for a Representative: the 21st Congressional District of Texas did not send their best to Washington.
The phrase “the GOP wasn’t prepared for” the Democrats’ response, or for Hunter Biden’s presence--like, I get what you’re saying, but even that understates it. Honestly, how could they prepare? What’s to prepare? They have nothing; they know they have nothing, and the entire point is that they’re performing for their Orange Jesus and for the “news” network which will lie about what happened, to an audience that won’t check. Republicans are living in a completely fictional world and they know it and they don’t care.
They know EXACTLY what they are doing. Burning off the congressional hours til the next election, while raising millions of moolah from rubes big and small, some of which might be used on the campaigns themselves, but most of which will vanish into the ether...
There's nothing for them to do but preen for the cameras and throat-clear for the microphones. I'm surprised they even bother to try to make stuff up anymore. Seems to make no difference to their voters.
I blame their parents for failing to provide a proper fetchins up.
Well they WANTED a closed door interview with Hunter so they dould put out a some twisted false narrative, just as they did with Biden's business associate Devon Archer. That would suck up the oxygen for a few news cycles and by then Trump courtroom outbursts would be old news. Too bad; so sad that the R's are so flippin' incompetent (not really that sad).
In an interview today with Dr. Jill Biden, she said this whole awful circus is really hurting their grandchildren. It is indeed shameful. And when Hunter was walking out of the courtroom, a news reporter shouted, "Hunter, are you on crack right now?" What a horrible display and lack of empathy for anybody who has ever gone through addiction or has family members presently suffering from addiction. I wish Hunter the best in his legal battles and fighting his addiction demons every single day! He is so fortunate to have a family that truly loves him!
I too heard that sorry excuse for humanity ask what flavor of crack Hunter preferred. What a douche bag, he showed himself to be. His mother must be so proud of her little turd boy.
I haven't been paying close attention to the Hunter stuff but this seems to have shifted the conversation. The Republicans look like absolute buffoons right now.
For a bunch of Deplorables who dismiss education, expertise and professionalism as “elitist,” its become clear that their ONLY tactic is bullying--what we called in the military, “the BiFFI” method: Brute Force and F-ing Ignorance.
I am always glad to see the GOP get owned and hoisted by their own petards. The only thing I have a problem with is that we, the people, are having to pay for their stupidity. Literally. This is our tax money.... not at work.
Silver lining - it could be worse, they could be capable of passing horrendous legislation. Right now the goal is to keep them busy with stupid stuff until the House shifts back.
We need exactly this kind of energy g from the dems in the house! awesome job all. Kudos to Hunter Biden for having the courage to call the gop antics out in public.
The marbles in their mouths and egg on their faces was grand to see.
Get serious doing the people’s work, enough of the crazy. GOP- goof off party. Getting paid for doing nothing.
I found yesterday's antics incredibly amusing, from Raskin to Crockett, to the stuttering Republican members. Kudos to Hunter Biden, who absolutely showed he has the balls that MTG seems to so admire. << and that is a sad comment on HER personal bedroom satisfaction.
I have said it before and will say it again--Jamie Raskin and his team are masters at owning the GOP! It was all I could do not to cheer out loud at their performance. I missed the part where MTG actually brought out more porn. She really is the expert. I’m so proud to be a Democrat.
Comer's face-in-palm-of-hand photo was easily worth a thousand words!
When the master of ceremonies of the clown show wonders why he ever took this job.
He could have censured (either privately or publicly) his misbehaving members. Especial MT Green - presenting porn as an exhibit is really gross.
That was too difficult. This job was supposed to be easier.
Jamie Raskin does a very good job in teaching how adults handle insolent & immature children.
Seriously, he just ..... casually mops the floor with these eegits.
Relieved to be a Democrat too. I assume Biden can pardon his son, which should somehow get out to the Republicans, as how to waste the taxpayers money and everyone else's time. Try to convict the President's son, whom the President can pardon anyway. I personally think all of them should face contempt charges, and perhaps the Justice Department can go after them.
I don't think Biden will pardon his son. It seems like a bad look. He might, but if he does it will be on his last day.
Although President Harris might do it.
The day after he is reelected, and then, he will make Hunter do anti-gun commercials as penance.
And anti-drug commercials as well.
Oh can it.
As usual, great takes. I loved the Jerry Springer reference, because that is what Republican House proceedings are.
I don't know if this was where Jasmine Crockett uttered forth her viral tirade (I use that word in a very positive sense) or not, but man, I could watch Ms. Crockett all day. She took those idiots down.
Jasmine Crockett takes no prisoners. She will have a long career representing her constituents.
What is sort of magical about her is that she does these tirades but is so cogent through it even when she seems mad. When I get mad, my mouth is full of marbles.
Love her, too. I think she is a rising star for the Democrats. She is at turns hilarious, inciteful, caring for her constituents, and articulate in her own personal way.
I like her too... is there a link? I watched a prior “tirade” but hadn’t heard about another on. These Dems are SO good!
Check out this, but her engine doesn't really get fired up until about half way through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaBAcg5gkG4
I almost stood up and cheered but remembered I’m in a Dr waiting room... but I did smile a lot!
I may have uttered a "you go girl" out loud sitting here at my desk
Omg, I could watch this ALL day! Thank you so much Charles!
You're welcome. She's quickly becoming a national treasure!
In good company with Raskin, Swalwell, Goodman, et al
Carol Parsons, and Katie Porter for sure!
Wow, thanks for sharing this link! What a blistering take down of the R's! Jasmine Crockett needs a medal for calling them out the way she did! Too bad her speech is unlikely to be aired on any MSM, let alone FOX, etc.
You're welcome. The mainstream media is beyond reprehensible in their coverage of this election so far.
YES & Amen!
O.M.G. and DYN-O-MITE! Can we please put Jasmine and Katie in charge of decimating those jerks? Gotta be on Pay-Per-View!
Oh yeah... if only her words would shake some sense into these clowns.
Alas, all we can really hope for is good comedy.
Representative Crockett is a jewel--may she be be re-elected until she wants to run for the Senate and on to be President!
Well. Well. Well said!!!! Rep. Crockett kicked some BOOTY with her cogent and complete remarks -- amazing to watch and listen to her CALL. THEM. OUT. I wish the Dems would put her comments up as an ad on EVERY TV and radio station in the country. Thanks for sharing the link, Charles. Much appreciated.
Thank you for the link. She is brilliant!!!
You're welcome!
Bam! My new favorite person. Thanks for the link.
I can't choose between Raskin, Moskowitz or Crockett. They are all my favorites! The Republicans are so dumb...I wasn't sure if I was watching C-Span or a hi-speed mashup of The Keystone Cops, The Three Stooges and an episode of the Jerry Springer Show. What an embarrassment for this nation.
The lady has form! https://youtu.be/DZtK995Qboo?si=iLuuvy3xx2WRqki6
Yep, I remember that one. In the shitter! :-)
This link took me to Brian Tyler Cohen, not Jasmine Crockett
I don't know who Brian Tyler Cohen is, but I believe you're the only one with this issue.
Here’s a very good compilation of The Lincoln Project that’s on Jasmine’s X (Twitter) profile.
I’ll look for one with Jasmine alone.
https://x.com/jasmineforus/status/1745292600750309832?s=46&t=qAHqK6CObVu_oovZd0MfSA
Thank you... and to all the others who compile these tidbits!
Ladies & gentlemen, I introduce to you, Rep Jasmine Crockett
https://x.com/reallyamerican1/status/1745138134113812941?s=46&t=qAHqK6CObVu_oovZd0MfSA
Yeah, that's about half way into the video I posted where she gets really fired up, but the first part is good, too.
Her previous tirade. Priceless.
https://twitter.com/ElevenFilms/status/1707470705204555950?s=19
WOW. Just WOW. Thank you so much for sharing this. She is amazing. 👏👏👏
Isn't she? Dallas TX done good with this one. 🤩
They sure did!! 💙💙💙
Yes they did, indeed!
She was there too. The fact she wasn't even mentioned here makes me think she's getting a cover story of her own.
Could be!
Jared Moskowitz's brilliant bit of rat-f**kery in holding up a blown-up photo of tRump and Jeffery Epstein smiling away shoulder-to-shoulder was comedy gold, and put the entirety of the moronic Hunter Biden clownshow in proper perspective.
By that time, Comer had lost the plot, and it was like open-mic at Comedy Central.
You just made me think that maybe Comedy Central is missing an opportunity by not doing some live feeds of these events with a Mystery Science Theater type of live commentary.
The writers at SNL can go home for a rest; they just have to run the tape of this ridiculous hearing on Jan. 13. The entire thing. From Mace to Greene to Moscowitz to Raskin to Crockett to Comer covering his eyes -- oy vey!!!!! Wouldn't even take too much editing. They could label it as a PSA for Democracy ;-)
The MST3k version would be comedy gold!
I wondered about Nancy Mace saying that Hunter Biden had “no balls” when MTG keeps bringing out naked pictures of him 🤔
Perhaps she should have her eyes checked. I wonder if Rand Paul could fit her in.
Awesome comment!
Your comment just made me laugh out loud! Thank you for that.
😜🤣😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
LOL
Wearing a Smurf on his tie... I could hardly breathe for laughing. Thank you Jay for the always masterful humor you add when recounting these events. This sort of unscripted and yet epic stage direction from the Dems is something 10 years ago I would have expected from an SNL skit, funny but implausible. And yet here we are.
We have to just laugh at times, don’t we? It’s both absurd and horrifying, comical yet tragic.
That was a really cool bit of information, and awesome that he wore the Smurf tie. Democrats like him and Crockett are really learning how to handle these oafs.
https://www.etsy.com/market/smurf_enamel_pin
I want one.
The GQP should be deeply embarrassed, but they seem far too stupid to see how asinine they look . . .
So true!
Yup
The Democrats need to do more of what their committee members were doing yesterday.
Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle :
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) encapsulated this best when he blasted his own Republican colleagues in a speech in November on the House floor:
“For the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something … and then do nothing about it. One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing—one—that I can go campaign on and say we did. One!”
Roy dared any Republicans in the room to come to the floor and “explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.”
Just because he is exasperated with his own party doesn't turn him into a good guy. Mr. Roy is no prize for a Representative: the 21st Congressional District of Texas did not send their best to Washington.
T L, Don’t get be wrong, Roy is no good guy. It’s just rare when they admit the obvious
Very true!
Jasmine Crockett was on fire. She would be a worthy successor to Ann Richards.
The picture you posted with Comer covering his eyes and Jaime Raskin standing behind him said it all.
Needs to be a billboard in Comer’s district. .
The phrase “the GOP wasn’t prepared for” the Democrats’ response, or for Hunter Biden’s presence--like, I get what you’re saying, but even that understates it. Honestly, how could they prepare? What’s to prepare? They have nothing; they know they have nothing, and the entire point is that they’re performing for their Orange Jesus and for the “news” network which will lie about what happened, to an audience that won’t check. Republicans are living in a completely fictional world and they know it and they don’t care.
They know EXACTLY what they are doing. Burning off the congressional hours til the next election, while raising millions of moolah from rubes big and small, some of which might be used on the campaigns themselves, but most of which will vanish into the ether...
There's nothing for them to do but preen for the cameras and throat-clear for the microphones. I'm surprised they even bother to try to make stuff up anymore. Seems to make no difference to their voters.
I blame their parents for failing to provide a proper fetchins up.
Playing to their Trumputin master(s).
Well they WANTED a closed door interview with Hunter so they dould put out a some twisted false narrative, just as they did with Biden's business associate Devon Archer. That would suck up the oxygen for a few news cycles and by then Trump courtroom outbursts would be old news. Too bad; so sad that the R's are so flippin' incompetent (not really that sad).
In an interview today with Dr. Jill Biden, she said this whole awful circus is really hurting their grandchildren. It is indeed shameful. And when Hunter was walking out of the courtroom, a news reporter shouted, "Hunter, are you on crack right now?" What a horrible display and lack of empathy for anybody who has ever gone through addiction or has family members presently suffering from addiction. I wish Hunter the best in his legal battles and fighting his addiction demons every single day! He is so fortunate to have a family that truly loves him!
I too heard that sorry excuse for humanity ask what flavor of crack Hunter preferred. What a douche bag, he showed himself to be. His mother must be so proud of her little turd boy.
I haven't been paying close attention to the Hunter stuff but this seems to have shifted the conversation. The Republicans look like absolute buffoons right now.
This is a change, how? :-)
Reporters don't have to cite "anonymous sources". They can just go to CSPAN.
For a bunch of Deplorables who dismiss education, expertise and professionalism as “elitist,” its become clear that their ONLY tactic is bullying--what we called in the military, “the BiFFI” method: Brute Force and F-ing Ignorance.
I am always glad to see the GOP get owned and hoisted by their own petards. The only thing I have a problem with is that we, the people, are having to pay for their stupidity. Literally. This is our tax money.... not at work.
Silver lining - it could be worse, they could be capable of passing horrendous legislation. Right now the goal is to keep them busy with stupid stuff until the House shifts back.
We need exactly this kind of energy g from the dems in the house! awesome job all. Kudos to Hunter Biden for having the courage to call the gop antics out in public.
The marbles in their mouths and egg on their faces was grand to see.
Get serious doing the people’s work, enough of the crazy. GOP- goof off party. Getting paid for doing nothing.
I believe Jeffries put his ringes on that Oversight committee knowing they would be faced with this.
I found yesterday's antics incredibly amusing, from Raskin to Crockett, to the stuttering Republican members. Kudos to Hunter Biden, who absolutely showed he has the balls that MTG seems to so admire. << and that is a sad comment on HER personal bedroom satisfaction.