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Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 01:59 PM Dec 2019

Twisted filibuster! The Republicans are in full-fledge disruptive behavior.

I just heard five minutes of heavy traffic bullshit from the GOP repeating the same obstructive comments under the guise of point of orders and another parliamentary nonsense. It's all about creating a headache for the viewers.

And I wonder if they intentionally used Castor as their attorney in order to create more confusion over the taking of the oath.

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Twisted filibuster! The Republicans are in full-fledge disruptive behavior. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 OP
All by design. Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #1
But doesn't it come off as desperation to you? Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #2
History is repleat of Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #3
I would love to see a replay of that hearing. Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #8
If you were a Republican voter you wouldn't be listening. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #6
There is definitely a bubble. Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #9
Because they win by escalating to intimidation. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #11
I think the Dems are finally pushing back. Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #14
It does come across as desperation PatSeg Dec 2019 #12
The aim is to disrupt and confuse, ultimately to discourage gratuitous Dec 2019 #4
Yes. Historic NY Dec 2019 #5
I am afraid they are succeeding. Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #10
+1 crickets Dec 2019 #15
It sure makes me wish Schiff ran the show the whole way through. tritsofme Dec 2019 #7
I would be okay with that. Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #13
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. All by design.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:03 PM
Dec 2019

When your Client is in trouble,do what ever is necessary to disrupt the truth of your Client's guilt from being exposed.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
2. But doesn't it come off as desperation to you?
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:05 PM
Dec 2019

If I were a Republican voter I would know that I was losing based on their behavior.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. History is repleat of
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:11 PM
Dec 2019

the Rethugs doing exactly what you see in real time today.

Watched the Senate Hearings during the 1964 voting rights act . Today's Tenor and stupid questions from the Retugs were very similiar. Do recall the Chair Person hammering the gavel umpteen times . The Dixie Crates were so Pissed beyond belief.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
6. If you were a Republican voter you wouldn't be listening.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:17 PM
Dec 2019

You've been given permission, nay, encouragement, to dismiss it all out of hand.

Trump has given you easy, short words with hard consonants to repeat whenever your glass house is threatened: "Hoax", "Fake", "Witch Hunt". Those all work well when you're inside the GOP Propaganda Bubble.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
9. There is definitely a bubble.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:31 PM
Dec 2019

For reasons that I can't explain, they are proud of their physical disruptions of valid processes. i.e. the Miami recount.

PatSeg

(47,613 posts)
12. It does come across as desperation
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:33 PM
Dec 2019

but I don't think republican voters would see it that way. They'll see what the disruptive members intend for them to see - the Democrats aren't playing fair and won't let republicans participate, boo hoo hoo.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. The aim is to disrupt and confuse, ultimately to discourage
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:16 PM
Dec 2019

Casually interested citizens who want to know firsthand what all the fuss is about will get offended or bored and retreat back to the safety of "This is why I don't like politics." They will unplug from the process and if they connect at all, it will be through favored media outlets that confirm their biases. The most prominent bias being that "both sides" are conniving chiselers, nobody can know what's really going on, and a pox on all parties involved.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
10. I am afraid they are succeeding.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:32 PM
Dec 2019

I have a Dem friend who said she was tired of the impeachments. Of course, she has some overwhelming things happening in her life.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)
13. I would be okay with that.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:33 PM
Dec 2019

His eyes are so expressive. All he has to do is look in their direction and it comes off like, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

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