that Barr lied through his teeth to the Senate, including his affirmation that when Trump orders his staff to lie to investigators, it's not illegal, which it is, AND flouted a subpoena to deliver the full Mueller report.

Great day for KFC

It’s one thing to graphically demean them and totally a different one to laugh and have a good time while doing it!

I approve!

They should leave a trail off fried chicken and big macs leading right out of the White House and into a paddy wagon.

Other than that, it's perfect

.... the Fascist fix it man.

Roy Cohn 2.0 for sure.

or the fight we are in for our Democracy. To me, this would be more of a Republican stunt and if it was we all would be condemning it.

.... barr the Fascist fix it man with a $10,000 per day fine and have the House Sargent of Arms lock barr's fat ass up in the dungeon jail in the basement of the US Capitol Building until he reports to testify at the House Committee Hearings.

Long past the time Dems play hardball with these Rethug Fascists. The 2020 election will be here before we know it. The Rethugs want to play ring around the rosy and pussy foot around right up to election day and after. Do not accommodate them !

Reducing the most serious conversation to a childish prank allows the public to diminish the grave importance of the situation.

disrespect for Committee and especially Chairman Nadler, I tend to think ridicule is not a bad strategy. "Being the adults in the room" has not gotten us anything but Bothsiderism news coverage and that continues to baffle the public. Stunts like this should be limited, but hell, it WILL give attention to the issue.

I agree that it is undignified. But it is using the drama with a touch of popular culture will show the voters that Democrats have the backbone to stand up to Trump and his minions. I think your male voter will love this. Behaving like cowed battered wives or offended effite intellectuals with wordy letters has gotten no respect from your average person who is looking for some stand up leadership.

One gets the sense that we really had no backup plan for Barr’s refusal to appear at the hearing, just as we had and still have no backup plan if Mueller doesn’t somehow single-handedly hold the Trump/Republican criminal enterprise accountable.

When he doesn't respond to the subpoena, they can charge him with contempt.

There are steps, they just need to be taken in order. They gave him the chance to come voluntarily.

This is cheap high school junk. What's next? Fart jokes?

.

It's called context.

Just thought I'd let you know that some of the best writers of our language used fart jokes.

How's that for context.

Humor requires the ability to see one's self, and to see the world for what it is. Or at LEAST to be trying to see... republicans are devoid of that ability.

THIS is true humor.

BIG difference.

It's difficult to take someone seriously when they pull foolish stunts for the cheap applause that diminishes the seriousness of hearings.

One of the most serious periods in the history of our nation re: our democracy & our constitution, if not the MOST SERIOUS.

And some wonder why Dem voters are SO dis-enchanted with the Democrats in Congress yuking it up and their childish clowning around in the middle of it all.........

And then the Democrat politicians wonder why we are in this mess........

I, for one, am beginning to believe ANY POSSIBLE THING the Dems can do will be far to little and far to late at this point.
The Republicans belligerence seemingly displays that THEY know this to be true and that they have succeeded in overthrowing the American gov't from a quasi democracy to an all out Corpocracy & Fascist state.....controlled by the one percent and the corporations.
They have pulled off a total coup.........

WASF................

I disagree. It is silly but it is necessary and indicative of who we are dealing with. Sure we would be offended if a Republican did that. The difference is that they would do it for shear spite and without justification. That is how they operate.

should be endlessly mocked as cowardly. There is nothing a bully hates more than to be called out as a coward.

When talking about "The Producers", Mel Brooks said he felt the best way to address Hitler and the Nazis was with relentless mockery.

The message is clear even to the most uninformed voters.

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the finger and refusing to come before his committee. That's a complete breakdown of the essence of the Constitutional 3 equal branches of government. and Congressional oversight. If this is left to stand, no one in the Executive Branch will ever feel any obligation to comply with Congress. A Constitutional crisis.

I understand Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)was attempting to make a point. I just think he used the wrong props and made too much of a joke about it. I actually appreciated the comments Rep Cohen made later and using the chicken. To me, that was more effective than chowing down on a bucket of fried chicken.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/05/02/william-barr-chicken-statue-steve-cohen-vpx.cnn

Geez.

quick, my fainting couch, posthaste!

I've only had it as cold leftovers, but cold fried chicken is good too!

Dude from TN is too cool.

BOC BOC Well done Rep Cohen

afraid to appear before any GOP led committee and what separates people like her from people like trump and Barr..

They need to hammer that home

Come down hard on these bastards.

When they show contempt of Congress, fine or arrest them.

Make it hurt NOW!

throwing him in jail for his violating his subpoena order!



I'm so fucking disgusted.

I truly hope the Dems grow a fucking spine and throw his ass in jail, but alas...

This was in invitation to answer questions. The subpoena would come next since he refused the invitation.

I HATE reading SHIT like that.

This gets so tiring.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12066202

when do they throw his ass in jail?

Once the subpoena him, he can be in contempt.

That must be the next step. Thank you for being civil in your reply to me. It is getting nasty in here already. I will save my bile for the repuggies.

I think the House Dems are doing this right.

What are you?

"why don't you actually DO something?"

I can only guess you haven't been following the ranking Dems too closely to have asked that particular question. But I get it... it's easier to allege concern by belittling allies that to act on concern.

Harty har har, indeed.

They should have used this:

Sometimes ridicule is the right response, and the visual of the chicken figurine next to Barr's nameplate gets the message across.

It won't be the Democrats' only response. They made seriously remarks right after the truncated hearing adjourned, and it won't end there.

And hardly something that will convince any Trumpistas that Democrats deserve respect.

We claim to be the party with the grownups in charge. This is worthy of a 7th grader.

I'd bet if you had, you wouldn't be fretting over a chicken stunt.

Those fucksticks would rather kill us all. Screw 'em. This is the only kind of thing they understand.

his cronies have been mocking and making fun of us for way too long and we sit there in silence, not doing anything. This humor is great. I find it kind of disappointing that some do not see that way. Some of the greatest things done in history have been based on humor. Here's some tidbits from Google, which most people have access to...

Humor is one of the great ways to communicate
1. The quality that makes something laughable or amusing; funniness: could not see the humor of the situation.
2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor.
3. The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd: "Man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the gravity of his profession" (Mary Roberts Rinehart).
etc.

The Weapon of Comedy – Why Humour Gets the Point Across
skeptikai.com/2012/10/25/the-weapon-of-comedy-why-humour-gets-the-point-across

Oct 25, 2012 · The Weapon of Comedy – Why Humour Gets the Point Across. Today, people want their ideas to be adopted by people more than ever. The internet has given people the hope that they can make their voices heard from all over the world. That could be anyone from advertisers to trolls, hate-mongers and even, yes, comedians.

Way to go, Rep.Cohen!

K&R

"Honorable." Mean, but I'd have done it, even to hang it in my office.

Steve Cohen. The rest can go straight to hell. Particularly the wicked witch of Williamson county now in the US Senate. She epitomizes everything that wrong with the ole home state. I hate that woman with every fiber of my being.

I think that's lame as hell.

This is serious.
We are at war.

done since stepping in to the position, including reopening Mueller's investigation, if necessary.

to racism, whether you think the stunt was appropriate or not? Porcelain chickens are "racist" too?

BTW, Rep Cohen is a Democrat, so before one calls him out as "racist", I'd think you'd want to be very well founded in your argument to that effect. Criticize for being childish. Criticize for deflecting from our issue. But calling him a racist? Perhaps you should research the symbolism of chickens as reflecting cowardliness dating back as far as the 1600s England/Europe and having nothing whatsoever to do with race.
Google: Jonathon Green, author of 'Green's Dictionary of Slang'

on to the floor of a historically racist legislative body? Really?

but just for the headline AOC Eats KFC.