Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony

Meadmaker said:
Interesting observation from a right wing talk radio host today: (paraphrased)

"You know there was nothing worthwhile from the Cohen hearing yesterday, because it degenerated into the Democrats calling everyone racist."


Although I do not agree with the quote, I do think the Democratic Party and the American left in general could learn a lot by understanding the statement and why it's effective.
The most important thing that came out of the Cohen testimony was not any evidence that anyone might be racist.
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Let me have a stab at that by using a quote from I can't remember who (maybe Cullen Hightower?)

"we are inclined to accept opinions which which we agree, but reject those with which we disagree"
 
Trebuchet said:
Serious question: I'm eight pages behind on this thread. Do I need to read the whole thing or is it all going to the same as the first six?
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Just skip over The Big Dog's posts.

You'll catch up quicker because, you'll avoid all the strawmen, all the logical fallacies, all the whining about "Rule of So" and all the Trumpious fraud!
 
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The Big Dog said:
Folks, I will save you a click, that is a curiously long article about who Jim Jordan does not usually wear a suit coat.

I say this without hyperbole: that is the dumbest most specious and frivolous article on the entire internet. It makes time cube look like collected works of Samuel Pepys in comparison.

What you've just linked is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent link was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having been exposed to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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I know, right? That site should’ve been dedicated to hard-hitting news content about men who wear tan suits. Tan suits.

Talk about your ******* monsters.
 
The Big Dog said:
Just read my posts, you'll get the gist and learn something
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smartcooky said:
Just skip over The Big Dog's posts.

You'll catch up quicker because, you'll avoid all the strawmen, all the logical fallacies, all the whining about "Rule of So" and all the Trumpious fraud!
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Interesting. TBD positive helpful.

Our correspondent? Negative, bitter, attacking another poster.

Oh well, I wasted my time replying to a "skeptic" who brags about his ignore list.

hoo boy.
 
The Big Dog said:
Interesting. TBD positive helpful.

Our correspondent? Negative, bitter, attacking another poster.

Oh well, I wasted my time replying to a "skeptic" who brags about his ignore list.

hoo boy.
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Your post was NOT helpful (because there isn't anything Trebuchet could learn from them; at least not about the topic).

Mine on the other hand would help him to get through the pages faster - without missing anything important!
 
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smartcooky said:
Just skip over The Big Dog's posts.

You'll catch up quicker because, you'll avoid all the strawmen, all the logical fallacies, all the whining about "Rule of So" and all the Trumpious fraud!
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Also, The Big Dog believes that the only reason Cohen is testifying against Trump is because The Illuminati got to him.
 
smartcooky said:
House Republicans needed a trial lawyer—or even a moderately bright junior-high mock-trial participant—to tell them how to do anything. Cross-examination is hard. It’s not just barking at the witness. It takes meticulous planning and patience. Republicans could have marshaled Cohen’s many sins of the past to undermine his statements today. Instead, they returned repeatedly to lies and misdeeds he’s already admitted, wallowed in silly trivialities such as the “Women for Cohen” Twitter account, and yelled. The effect was to make an unsympathetic man modestly more sympathetic. Republicans committed the classic cross-examination blunder: They gave the witness the opportunity to further explain his harmful direct testimony. They provided Cohen with one slow pitch up the middle after another, letting him repeat the cooperating witness’s go-to explanation like a mantra: I did these bad things so often and so long because that’s what it took to work for your guy. I have seldom seen a cross-examination go worse.

If the hearing’s participants needed trial lawyers, its absent subject needs them even more. Whether the danger is looming impeachment hearings or the special counsel’s investigation, the president of the United States is in the soup.​


Maybe they needed to pull a "Blasey-Ford Hearing" trick, and get a prosecutor to ask their questions for them, or perhaps TBD should have offered them his years of *snicker* "experience" as a wannabe web-lawyer and volunteer his services. After all he could not possibly have done a worse job than they did. He's got, you know "pro tips" "n" all
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Judge: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"

TBD: (Leaping and screaming) "lol! Rule of so! Hooo boy!"
 
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Dr. Keith said:
Oh, come on. Yesterday was a fun day and some of us have given up drinking at work. What else are we supposed to do while listening to an auditor go on an on about things that don't really impact our department?
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Yeah, fair enough. For some reason I've been watching a lot of WWII film clips on YouTube lately and wanted to throw in some Churchill :)
 
Trebuchet said:
Serious question: I'm eight pages behind on this thread. Do I need to read the whole thing or is it all going to the same as the first six?
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There is not a single post between yours and mine that is on topic, including this one. Or maybe the topic is The Big Dog and how to ignore him which, surprisingly, nobody seems able to do, in which case I guess I am on topic.

To everyone else:

You all need this. It's an addiction and more. I think we are all addicted or f'd up in some way to keep coming back to this hell hole (poli/social). You (as in "many people who are not me") need The Big Dog to help you get through the day.

You need to be heard, to let it out, maybe be mean to someone, or at least as close as you can get. "I'm angry dammit!" You'd be lost without The Big Dog.

From my view it's obvious that many of you get off on this. Kind of a kinky group thing. The chihuahuas always try and pick on the big dog. They nip at its ankles and think they are winning, then run off and lick each others behinds in celebration.

I'm not as think as you drunk I am, but you are as pathetic as I think you are. <belch>

I have the entire Politics and Social forums on ignore, I have to log out to see them, but I still wander in here. Gawd help me. Ban me! Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

So ya, back to, what was it...Cohen?
 
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