I can't stomach it or watch it without popping a blood vessel. My BS meter works too well to watch that clusterfuck of lies.

High blood pressure here

Spent the morning watching reruns of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on IFC. Much more rewarding.

From "The Beast of Yucca Flats."

Not sure how much longer I'll be listening.

couldn't be bothered with the Repub "defense."

from DVD to my hard drive.

Now listening to 432 hz music and cleaning the house.

The blatant lies and distortions effect me on a visceral level. Not gonna put myself thru that today.

I am vacillating beyond rage and despair at the state of our country and move toward despotism.

My sweet girlie brings comfort, but I'm not sure where to go for a needed "shot" of hope.

It will be one lie after another. No disputing of the facts, just pure BS to buttkiss the orange one.

occasionally checking MSNBC Live Blog and their real time fact check. Also saw there Lindsey Graham saying the Biden/Burisma better done outside of impeachment. heh, little shit knows that crap's going no where.

Besides, I watched the Watergate hearings when I was 13 and in much better health.

I believe Adam Schiff did an spectacular job summarizing the lies these buffoons would bring about as a non-defense.

I watched about one minute and quickly decided where I would much rather be. Oh, what a tangled web they weave . . .

What's the point of self-flagellation?

I noted that the channels I was watching the proceedings on are not carrying it today though. So I have to listen to the radio. But then I wonder if Fox is actually going to carry live audio today instead of mocking the presentation with their paid talking heads?

And of course this is part of the problem.

I watched about 45 minutes. Heard "They didn't tell you this" 4 times. 3rd grade reasoning, with very slow delivery. Hope Trump could comprehend, because that is who they were talking to....

And wondered. I thought trump was supposed to be hiring only the best tv lawyers. What I heard was horrendous. No public speaking ability whatsoever, seemingly designed to put people to sleep.

And wondered if that might be the purpose.

His followers need people to talk real slow and use simple words and delivery.
It was so ridiculous that my BP was not at all raised, lol.

I know the faithful can’t be swayed. But anybody else watching this. Anybody with a shred of intelligence, decency, and sense of fair play who looks at this is going to come down on our side.

I think the reason I’m a little upbeat is that I’ve been watching the Democratic Party shoot itself in the foot repeatedly ever since Reagan, when it seemed to me that if they just avoided doing that, we could have been so much more successful over the preceding 30 years.

This has not happened here. Schiff has been the standout prosecutor and all of the democratic house members have done well, but they’ve done stunning, stellar work, when compared with their shouters across the aisle.

I decided to clean out my office. It is a perfect day for such a task.

College basketball is about to begin.

I don’t have a history of blood pressure problems.

However, as a former Risk Manager, hazard avoidance is the sane move.

I do appreciate those taking one for the team and watching and reporting.

to show that I can listen to both sides and I would expect the Trump supporters to do to the House Mangers presentation.

Did he just turn around the 'abuse of power' argument.

Yes I have high blood pressure and my doc just upped my med dose.
(BTW - $40 dollars per month!)... and that's just one of my meds.

...and I'm not the one.

They all ought to be disbarred for lying to Congress. It’s illegal for witnesses to do it.

No how, no way, not never no more.

Two minutes of Cippolone was enough to convince me it was too dangerous.

I could feel my stomach churning and my blood pressure rising and I want to have a nice Saturday

We will hear the highlights and summary eventually.

What matters now is that the House managers have a response team that are getting out to the media with corrections to fact and that that in 4 days there will be the debate and vote for witnesses and documents.

I recommend everyone spend their time preparing for that and what is coming and take care of being healthy and strong.

I personally wish there could be massage tables set up for the House managers and legal teams and healthy pressed juices and nourishment for them in the next week so they are strong and ready for what they have to deal with.

Hubby told me give him 5 min heads up if I turn on so he can leave. I told him not watching.

I can only do small portions of news and I read here and other news sites. Its all a sham no matter how much facts we gave out so to watch his people blindly lie and support him would drive me nuts.

episode, turned out to be a 2 hour one and when I was done so were these 'opening arguments'. I think the brevity of these 'arguments' says a lot.

If any of their lips are moving they are lying. So I don’t need to listen. And watching them is dangerous for my tv.

Someone here is keeping socks at their side so they can throw the socks at the screen. What a great idea!

I thought--good--then my blood can reach all of my extremities.
I can't watch politics on the weekends--Jeannie is home and she does not
abide politics. That's OK, I have enough outrage for both of us.

Prepare your action list for the 2020 election and begin actions:

# 1. Verify that you are registered on the voter's roll of your current congressional district. Important for those of us who moved into another congressional district since the 2018 election. Changes like that create opportunities for mischief by Repugs with access to the voter data base -- your data could have been corrupted or deleted.
# 2. Begin monthly donations to your DEM governor candidate.
etc.

You just confirmed what I knew would be happening - lie-a-second-athon and I absolutely can't take it. Was getting really stressed during the inital statements because not one damn thing they said was true - I mean every word of it was a lie. Watched maybe 5 min and that was it, my screaming did nothing but hurt my throat and raise my bloodpressure & stress levels - so turned it off. I feel a little hypocritical since I was so strong in urging everyone to watch the trial & learn stuff, but there's a huge difference. OUr case is fact based and theirs is fabrications, twists of the actual truth and defamations & degradations of the constitution so I will not deign to give him any of my time.

Just wonder if next week the trial will also start at 1 or since it's the dotard, they will start earlier - which will be yet another cheat by the worst person to ever steal office in this country.

I will turn the tv back on when it's question time, although I might have to turn it off during Cruz and other of the worst idiots time?

Know yourself and how to take in the constant barrage. It is insidiously, and I’d argue, intentionally inflaming.

I can handle it with the outlet that is live posting on DU during these impeachment trial* proceedings - BUT, that is me.

I have been encouraging engagement in the live threads, but that’s just one niche of engagement in all of this.

Thank you, Atticus - certainly do not want folks harmed.

There were no witnesses. Immediately changed the channel to TCM.

It's evident they have no intention of doing what's right and no interest in truth.
Schiff's words fell on deaf ears.
It all go back to the old saying, "No one is so blind as he who will not see, and no one is so deaf as he who will not hear."

The Republicans have always been a bit on the dumb side, mentally, but not vocally.
And, they certainly have selective sight and hearing.

They are a lost cause as far as doing what is right and true.
I only hope the nation can survive the Trump shit show.

Patrick Phillips

If you didn't, you can't refute their defense. We do accuse MAGA's of accepting what they are told, not what they see or hear on their own.

I may not get through, but I need facts on any argument I make.

by being so blatantly pro rump, by blatantly ignoring the evidence laid out before them, they've lost the respect of a lot of people, as they well should.

I woke up, listened for a minute or two, fell asleep, then woke up again when they were wrapping up. So, I missed most of it.

The only thing thing I got was twisted logic, mostly regarding the omission of some part of someone's answer that the Repubs claim means something, when the part was irrelevant and probably cut because of the artificial time constraints the Repubs put on the Dems.

Also, trying to persuade us that Trump didn't go somewhere because he wanted to stay home and monitor a hurricane--gawd, everyone knows that Trump doesn't go places that are dangerous--he made Pence go, although I didn't fact check that, and don't know if that is also a lie. Point is, no one is going to believe that.

And, that last guy was speaking like he was half awake. Schiff is a dynamic speaker, impassioned in his defense of our Democracy, and occasionally repeated an emphasis phrase for the emotion of it. This last Repub just kept repeating phrases so that he was saying everything twice. It was weird.

I believe that we should watch, so we know if they have anything. I don't expect to hear anything we don't already think they will say. I would hope that Trump gets agitated over the two tapes and orders them to say something dumb. Is there not a question and answer period we get?

Australian open and a good British mystery on Audible filled my Saturday!!