That's because every single one of them is stupid. They support that malicious megalomaniac who is supposed to be leading our country. Yeah, right off the edge of the planet. They're all guilty. Sucking up to DJT and lying constantly. Go Jack! We believe in you.
The sheer hypocrisy of those accusing Smith of targeting his political opponents while supporting the single most corrupt, amoral, anti-American administration in our history would be laughable anywhere but in Congress, where it is anything but.
I completely agree. Their hypocrisy when accusing Smith comes right back to them when anyone from this regime has testified before Congress. Not one of them answers a simple question asked of them. Not one. Cruz accusing Jack of weaponizing the agency when trump has done that from day one. It is just mind blowing to me.
I have wondered why that is as well. Are they afraid of him or more afraid of what his cultists will do to them? It just doesn't make any sense to me. They are supposed to be representing the people of America yet from their actions they clearly dislike Americans.
This is a really valid point. The current GOP has done more to actually DAMAGE America, both at home and abroad, than any foreign " hostile" nation has done since WW2.
If the face of such appalling behavior, I cannot help but wonder if it is nothing but complicity. They want power so badly that they cannot seem to help themselves. They have to now that if they were to stand together against Trump, there is nothing he could do about it. He can’t ‘primary’ half a Senate.
On the other hand, they know the Furies are coming for them in November and beyond. How much of this is fear of the consequences of all their depredations?
I listened to a video this morning and I'm sorry I cannot remember the name of the Senator however he challenged the rest of the republicans to state one single thing they have done to help the American people. Name him one thing he could campaign on, just one thing. He said come down to the floor and tell me the one thing we have done. I'm thinking, finally one of their own is calling them out because they have done nothing...
I think this farcical hearing will blow up in the faces of the stupid Republicans. Jack Smith will be just fine going against such pea-brains as Eric Schmidt, Josh Hawley, and Turd Cruz. The hearings could actually be a gift to the Democrats. Hauling Smith before Congress will remind everyone of the crimes committed by the Convicted Felon President, right before the midterms. Of course, it’s true that evidence of criminal behavior committed by the Convicted Felon President could lead the news every day . . .
Only the most craven, mediocre, old white men get to worship at the altar of a senile, incontinent, draft-dodging blowhard, who wears more makeup & hairspray than your Aunt Gladys. Assholes.
"You’ve succeeded where Richard Nixon failed, which is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after your political opponents. Your conduct represents the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the DOJ." And it's said by a republican and echoed by the rest of the republicans with righteous indignation. I'd be embarrassed to be a Republican right now.
Well, um, you must see the problem here. If you were Republican your ability to recognize let alone feel shame left the country decades ago and so being one would not embarrass you.
I well remember the days of Nixon and the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, etc. Believe me, he was a boy scout compared with the current President and administration.
FWIW, Rocky and Bullwinkle, in addition to each episode having a segment on the eponymous pair (often doing battle with Boris and Natasha, Russian spies), consisted of:
• Peabody's Improbable History: Featuring Mr. Peabody (a hyper-intelligent dog) and his adopted boy Sherman traveling back in time.
• Dudley Do-Right: A satirical cartoon about a dim-witted Mountie trying to capture Snidely Whiplash.
• Fractured Fairy Tales: Wacky, modernized, and satirical retellings of classic fairy tales narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
• Aesop and Son: Retellings of Aesop's fables with a humorous punchline.
• Bullwinkle's Corner & Mr. Know-It-All: Short comedic bits where Bullwinkle recites poetry or tries to give expert advice.
Most info "courtesy of" an AI answer that does seem accurate based on my recollections.
Thanks I forgot most about the show, but it was brilliant. As a kid I loved it….the Factured Fairytale was so cool and it reminds me how Trump twists and turns his version of relaity into a Fractured Fairytale.
The situation Donald Trump has created in the US is disastrous and built to lead to even more serious disasters. Without your essays and Robert Reich, I don't know how I would stay at all positive. Knowing we have strong intelligent activists in the struggle to overtake Donald Trump helps me keep my hopes up. I contribute and will march here in Santa Fe. You are so appreciated! Nancy Cetlin
Republicans continue to perform fiercly for Trump as their polls continue to go down, down, down. Any voter who watched this today surely has an even lower opinion of the R Senators. They debased themselves for the most corrupt POTUS of all time - especially Grassley and Kennedy. And the guy about that game who called Jack a dirtbag earned what he ultimately got from his performance.
Don’t forget, foghorn kennedy said “I think I’m going to throw up in my mouth “!! Was it cuz he knew Mr Smith was being honest?? Cuz the rethuglikkkrussians in that meeting don’t know how to do anything but 🫦🍊💩🫏!!
VOTE BLUE!
N Don’t forget!!
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
Keep it out n open!!
202 225 3121 call the lieing corrupt rethuglikkkrussians!
Kennedy and Grassley were disgusting too. Those senators will rue conducting that heading today. Republcan polls I'll continue to drop after they ever so expose again today or what lengths they continue to go to support Trump.
Was thinking those pigs from Cornell would fit right into this administration.
Deny, blame someone else, blame the victim, take no responsibility for actions…. Call human decency a disease… Watch out SCOTUS two could replace Roberts and Thomas.
But now I just read that Senator John Kennedy actually asked those questions because he didn't believe Smith's statement that he wouldn't have any idea of the communications between AG Garland and Joe Biden. 🤦🏽♀️ He was basically grandstanding, thinking he was making some kind of point about Smith's credibility. What a complete jackass. Why would Smith claim to know about AG Garland's communications with POTUS? And why should anyone think he would say something that constitutes hearsay, in a Congressional hearing, under oath?
That was my initial reaction, too. Then it became clear to me that this is the best that that Republican senator Schmidt could come up with to test whether Jack Smith was lying. Then they thought they caught him lying about attending a sports event. Turns out the Republican got the team names mixed up after confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes saying that Smith lied about attending a football game in Atlanta which he denied. He had attended a basketball game in Iowa at that time slot! Stupid is as stupid does tripping over their own shoelaces. Go Jack!
If Sen Shitt assistants had actually did try to find the facts before the hearing they would have found the video showing Jack Smith sitting in the front row of that basketball game, didn’t take reporters long to find it they showed it hours later…Republicans know they will be investigated and Dumbass will be Impeached once Democrats regain control of the House and looking like the Senate too so they are trying to discredit
Thanks, Mary. Smith is a hero, and Johnson sounds like a fool. Do they not know we can hear what they are saying, and see what they are actually doing?
Smith is an American hero, Congressional Republicans are shite. We need to vote every single Republican out of office EVERYWHERE.
We're sure going to try.
And tell all your friends to try. For the first time in my lifetime ( I'm 69) the future of your country is really in your hands.
Yes! Mr. Smith was the HERO of the Day!! The rethuglikkkrussians on the judiciary committee are BIG FAT LOSERS!! Incompetent, lieing 🍊💩🫏🫦ers!
Cory Booker was also a HERO!!
Be a good President!!! No nonsense!!!
They are so desperate.
That's because every single one of them is stupid. They support that malicious megalomaniac who is supposed to be leading our country. Yeah, right off the edge of the planet. They're all guilty. Sucking up to DJT and lying constantly. Go Jack! We believe in you.
Yes! From the other side of the Atlantic, their desperation has a really pungent odor!
The sheer hypocrisy of those accusing Smith of targeting his political opponents while supporting the single most corrupt, amoral, anti-American administration in our history would be laughable anywhere but in Congress, where it is anything but.
I completely agree. Their hypocrisy when accusing Smith comes right back to them when anyone from this regime has testified before Congress. Not one of them answers a simple question asked of them. Not one. Cruz accusing Jack of weaponizing the agency when trump has done that from day one. It is just mind blowing to me.
Looks they're all afraid of Trump
I have wondered why that is as well. Are they afraid of him or more afraid of what his cultists will do to them? It just doesn't make any sense to me. They are supposed to be representing the people of America yet from their actions they clearly dislike Americans.
This is a really valid point. The current GOP has done more to actually DAMAGE America, both at home and abroad, than any foreign " hostile" nation has done since WW2.
I think there's something they're not telling us
If the face of such appalling behavior, I cannot help but wonder if it is nothing but complicity. They want power so badly that they cannot seem to help themselves. They have to now that if they were to stand together against Trump, there is nothing he could do about it. He can’t ‘primary’ half a Senate.
On the other hand, they know the Furies are coming for them in November and beyond. How much of this is fear of the consequences of all their depredations?
I don’t know. This is unknown ground.
I listened to a video this morning and I'm sorry I cannot remember the name of the Senator however he challenged the rest of the republicans to state one single thing they have done to help the American people. Name him one thing he could campaign on, just one thing. He said come down to the floor and tell me the one thing we have done. I'm thinking, finally one of their own is calling them out because they have done nothing...
My money's on fear.
I think this farcical hearing will blow up in the faces of the stupid Republicans. Jack Smith will be just fine going against such pea-brains as Eric Schmidt, Josh Hawley, and Turd Cruz. The hearings could actually be a gift to the Democrats. Hauling Smith before Congress will remind everyone of the crimes committed by the Convicted Felon President, right before the midterms. Of course, it’s true that evidence of criminal behavior committed by the Convicted Felon President could lead the news every day . . .
Only the most craven, mediocre, old white men get to worship at the altar of a senile, incontinent, draft-dodging blowhard, who wears more makeup & hairspray than your Aunt Gladys. Assholes.
YES! YES!YES!
And,btw, Aunt Glad didn't really wear THAT much makeup.
"You’ve succeeded where Richard Nixon failed, which is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after your political opponents. Your conduct represents the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the DOJ." And it's said by a republican and echoed by the rest of the republicans with righteous indignation. I'd be embarrassed to be a Republican right now.
Well, um, you must see the problem here. If you were Republican your ability to recognize let alone feel shame left the country decades ago and so being one would not embarrass you.
True
I well remember the days of Nixon and the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, etc. Believe me, he was a boy scout compared with the current President and administration.
Most rethuglikkkrussians on judiciary committee have their heads so far up 🍊🫏 they are having issues! Unbelievable !!
It's so good to laugh through the tears. You're a treasure Mary T!
Does anyone remember Rocky and Bullwinkel .
.in that show they had a segment called The Fractured Fairytale where they would take a moment in history and totally twist it around
This is the Trump version every day
Or was it Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman? I can never remember....
I think it was Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle. Those were the days, coming home from school and watching that before dinner!
LOL. Same in Australia!
FWIW, Rocky and Bullwinkle, in addition to each episode having a segment on the eponymous pair (often doing battle with Boris and Natasha, Russian spies), consisted of:
• Peabody's Improbable History: Featuring Mr. Peabody (a hyper-intelligent dog) and his adopted boy Sherman traveling back in time.
• Dudley Do-Right: A satirical cartoon about a dim-witted Mountie trying to capture Snidely Whiplash.
• Fractured Fairy Tales: Wacky, modernized, and satirical retellings of classic fairy tales narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
• Aesop and Son: Retellings of Aesop's fables with a humorous punchline.
• Bullwinkle's Corner & Mr. Know-It-All: Short comedic bits where Bullwinkle recites poetry or tries to give expert advice.
Most info "courtesy of" an AI answer that does seem accurate based on my recollections.
Thanks I forgot most about the show, but it was brilliant. As a kid I loved it….the Factured Fairytale was so cool and it reminds me how Trump twists and turns his version of relaity into a Fractured Fairytale.
The situation Donald Trump has created in the US is disastrous and built to lead to even more serious disasters. Without your essays and Robert Reich, I don't know how I would stay at all positive. Knowing we have strong intelligent activists in the struggle to overtake Donald Trump helps me keep my hopes up. I contribute and will march here in Santa Fe. You are so appreciated! Nancy Cetlin
Republicans continue to perform fiercly for Trump as their polls continue to go down, down, down. Any voter who watched this today surely has an even lower opinion of the R Senators. They debased themselves for the most corrupt POTUS of all time - especially Grassley and Kennedy. And the guy about that game who called Jack a dirtbag earned what he ultimately got from his performance.
Don’t forget, foghorn kennedy said “I think I’m going to throw up in my mouth “!! Was it cuz he knew Mr Smith was being honest?? Cuz the rethuglikkkrussians in that meeting don’t know how to do anything but 🫦🍊💩🫏!!
VOTE BLUE!
N Don’t forget!!
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
Keep it out n open!!
202 225 3121 call the lieing corrupt rethuglikkkrussians!
They must be DEFEATED!!
Kennedy and Grassley were disgusting too. Those senators will rue conducting that heading today. Republcan polls I'll continue to drop after they ever so expose again today or what lengths they continue to go to support Trump.
You really stuck the landing, Mary!
😂
🤣🤣🤣
SI = Suicidal Ideation in the mental health field. Sounds appropriate.
I came here to say this.
Dash SI. MUST include the "dash".
Was thinking those pigs from Cornell would fit right into this administration.
Deny, blame someone else, blame the victim, take no responsibility for actions…. Call human decency a disease… Watch out SCOTUS two could replace Roberts and Thomas.
Thanks for your excellent substack articles!
What the hell kind of questions are these? “Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?” “Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?”
Mary was making a point about the level of absurdity of the Republican's questions. They were not actually asked. 🙂
Yes, they were asked
Yes, I just saw that!
Yes they were, I watched some of it and saw those questions asked
Loved Cory Booker’s work!!!
Mark just needs a cup of coffee and some fresh air to clear his head.
But now I just read that Senator John Kennedy actually asked those questions because he didn't believe Smith's statement that he wouldn't have any idea of the communications between AG Garland and Joe Biden. 🤦🏽♀️ He was basically grandstanding, thinking he was making some kind of point about Smith's credibility. What a complete jackass. Why would Smith claim to know about AG Garland's communications with POTUS? And why should anyone think he would say something that constitutes hearsay, in a Congressional hearing, under oath?
Anne Bolique: "And why should anyone think he would say something that constitutes hearsay, in a Congressional hearing, under oath?"
Because it's what HE would do, given the opportunity.
That was my initial reaction, too. Then it became clear to me that this is the best that that Republican senator Schmidt could come up with to test whether Jack Smith was lying. Then they thought they caught him lying about attending a sports event. Turns out the Republican got the team names mixed up after confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes saying that Smith lied about attending a football game in Atlanta which he denied. He had attended a basketball game in Iowa at that time slot! Stupid is as stupid does tripping over their own shoelaces. Go Jack!
If Sen Shitt assistants had actually did try to find the facts before the hearing they would have found the video showing Jack Smith sitting in the front row of that basketball game, didn’t take reporters long to find it they showed it hours later…Republicans know they will be investigated and Dumbass will be Impeached once Democrats regain control of the House and looking like the Senate too so they are trying to discredit
Love your columns Mary. You tell it like it is but you also do it with humor when we really need it. Thank you!
Thanks, Mary. Smith is a hero, and Johnson sounds like a fool. Do they not know we can hear what they are saying, and see what they are actually doing?
They just think we're really dum.