'Con man, crook, draft dodger, racist'--actual words House Republicans want to ban in Trump hearing

[Zorro]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/7/1863356/--Con-man-crook-draft-dodger-racist-actual-words-House-Republicans-want-to-ban-in-Trump-hearing

You might be tempted to think what you are about to read is a joke, but I can assure you it is not. On Monday, June 10, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Mueller report. Ahead of that committee hearing, which is sure to dominate news coverage next week, Republican Rep. Doug Collins, a ranking member of the committee, has sent a letter to its chairman, Jerry Nadler, citing the manual of decorum, with a list of words he wants Chairman Nadler to ban members from using about Donald Trump during the hearing.

It’s quite an incredible list, really. Rep. Collins has quite accurately nailed Trump’s character with these descriptors.

Cowardly
Infantile
Bilking the taxpayer
Delusional
Hypocritical
Liar
Amoral
Lining the pockets of his cronies
Draft-dodger
Crook
Conman
Engaged in illegal activity
Crook
Racist
Bigot
Misogynist
Un-American
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy
Spying
Abusing power
Abusing Executive Privilege
Demagogue
Disrespected the office

Can you believe these sensitive snowflakes? Collins may have House precedent and rules of decorum on his side, but as Politico reporter Kyle Cheney noted, these rules of decorum do not apply to impeachment hearings. If Democrats want to get specific and call out the alleged crimes and offenses committed by Donald Trump, they will have to open impeachment hearings on the cowardly, infantile, bilking-the-taxpayer, delusional, hypocritical, liar, amoral, lining-the-pockets-of-his-cronies, draft-dodging, crook, conman, racist, bigot, misogynistic, un-American, spying, power-abusing demagogue who disrespects the office of the presidency every day he is in it.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. That fucking Doug Collins (sorry, from my state)

What a supreme DOUCHENOZZLE.

I should have KNOWS this... he was a SENIOR PASTOR at a Baptist 'CHurch' for 11 GD years.

[Zorro]

2. Here's his letter to Nadler

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0275399506e2bdd8fe2012b77/files/06bc5c9c-c5c6-4ca8-b767-3b7bec29897e/06.07.19_DAC_Nadler.01.pdf

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Good news, though: "douchenozzle" isn't on the list! nt

[EveHammond13]

33. I don't see "mushroom dick" on there

[SunSeeker]

34. LOL

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

57. Nor is "Putin's puppet," "Vlad's ass-kisser," "traitor," and "fucking moron" (Tillerson's term)

Actually, the committee should vote on each term separately to decide whether it should be prohibited. That would be an interesting hearing. Each Democrat would make a statement about why a specific term, eg., "con man," should be allowed, and then a Republican would have to argue why the term should not be used. Then the committee votes on the term (Democrats win) and moves on to the next term. This would put the Republicans in the position of explaining just why a specific term should not be used in describing Trump, as well as highlighting Fat Donnie's character defects.

[NCjack]

101. whoremonger isn't on the list. nt

[Achilleaze]

103. Thus, it's got to be the GOP's officially sanctioned descriptor for Dirty Donny (R)

[spanone]

4. collins is a complicit asshole.

[LuckyCharms]

5. Why isn't "fuckface" on the list?

[Mopar151]

7. indeed...n/t

[Leghorn21]

10. I know, right??!

SEXUAL PREDATOR
FUCKFACE
DUMBASS
LOSER
WHINER
LIAR
SCUMBUCKET
SADO-MASOCHIST

etcetcetc

[gopiscrap]

47. Orange shitgibbon

[kedrys]

67. Whiny little bitch. n/t

[onetexan]

72. small hands

[deurbano]

98. Agent Orange

Dotard
Imperial Wizard

[TeamPooka]

6. We'll just call him a Republican. It means all those things listed. nt

[lame54]

8. What will they have left to talk about?

[Hassler]

9. Dems should bring a thesaurus to the hearing. Also, grifter isnt listed.

[dalton99a]

11. Move their offices to the basement, tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up.

[Evolve Dammit]

41. Yes! Like they did to John Conyers after the 2000 election theft. A committee to investigate

the election "irregularities" was relegated to the basement of the House, funding was cut and to my knowledge no actual investigation of voting machine (Diebold, etc.) hacking, "hanging chad" interpretation, re-count disruptors bussed from DC to FL (Bolton, Stone, et al) or or anything meaningful was conducted. The committee got nowhere and was terminated. If history is any indicator, we are in deep @#$, due to total GOP complicity and obstruction of democracy. Kushner just actively articulated seeking continuation of Russian help in the next election in the recent Axios interview.
Time to fight.

[walkingman]

12. Just ignore him like they have done us for years

[Mister Ed]

13. Nadler should begin the hearings by admonishing committee members not to use these words...

...and he should read the list out loud and into the record so that it's clearly understood.

Between the lines, a great deal would be understood.

With luck, the networks might play Nadler's reading of the list on heavy rotation.

[TruckFump]

17. ROL...LMAO!!!

I hope he does that and adds a few as suggested on this thread!

[sprinkleeninow]

20. 🤣

Let 'em rip!!

[Leghorn21]

36. Kinda like Lindsay did, eh?

[pangaia]

43. OH THAT IS IT !!! Do it jerry, Do ut, PULLEEESE!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

65. Hilarity would surely ensue

I doubt cable or network news could resist playing that as a sound bite.

[NBachers]

100. Yes, but they would edit it to make it sound like that's what Nadler is calling trump.

[forgotmylogin]

87. Oh my god, perfect.

"All right, first one coward. You may not refer to Donald Trump's inherent cowardice, nor call him a coward. Also liar - even if Donald Trump lies outright, you are not to acknowledge any of his lies, no matter how numerous, so as not to brush our president's feelings the wrong way. Let's move onto engaged in illegal activity; the Republicans would appreciate we don't refer to any of Donald J. Trump's extensive list of illegal activities as "illegal". This includes calling him an amoral crook and conman. Again, do not point out Trump is a crook or a conman who is engaged in illegal activity under any circumstances. Also, don't call him a racist - referring to Donald Trump's extremely obvious racism - put that right out of your minds."

"Do I need to put these up on a screen somewhere? It needs to stay up for the whole proceeding so we can refer to it and not accidentally say one of the things the Republicans would like us not to mention. Someone bring me a whiteboard, please? No, a bigger one. Actually, bring two, you know the kind with two sides we can flip over from time to time."

[world wide wally]

14. How about motherfucker,

Asshole,
Shit Gabon,
Fraud,
Pervert, and
Douchebag?

Can they use those words?

[TruckFump]

16. Where is...

..."grab 'em by the p*ssy?"

I would think that would be the top of the list!

[Honeycombe8]

18. If Nadler agrees, well...I see the writing on the wall.

If we can't agree to hold a hearing with the normal procedure, because we cave to extreme demands, then we certainly will have trouble when the going gets tough.

If it's in the Mueller Report, it's okay to say it. Mueller may quote some people that use those words. I don't think most reps will call Trump names. That's what Trump does. But if they ask questions about whether a statement means that Trump was "abusing power" or that he "disrespected the office," that's fair and within bounds. "Abusing power" IS part of the crime of obstructing justice.

[Hekate]

61. Why on Earth do you think Nadler would agree to this orange-snowflake nonsense?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Any word that Trump itself has used should specifically be permitted.

That includes all his oh-so-clever insults.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. Yes. ✔ n/t

[pandr32]

25. Yep

If it is in a tweet from the official usurper--it should fly!
Come to think of it 'usurper' wasn't on the banned list.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Disallow only those words not usable in the Benghazi hearings about Hillary and Obama.

Disallow only those words not usable in the Benghazi hearings about Hillary and Obama.

[DeminPennswoods]

23. Nadler should read the letter aloud before

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the hearing. Collins did a great job of compiling a list of applicable Trump descriptors.

It would be absolutely hilarious! I don't know if I could do it with a straight face. I'm sure Colbert and the rest of the late night comedians will have a field day with this request.

[in2herbs]

24. That's a hilarious idea! Do you think Nadler would do it? We can only hope. nt

[tblue37]

31. We should all write, email, or call to suggest that he do so. nt

[pandr32]

30. Absolutely! A must do!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

55. And after that reading, send Collins a resounding NO.

........

[smirkymonkey]

26. But how can you possibly describe him without those words and phrases?

It's impossible.

[Raven123]

28. So yellow-belly, spineless, narcissistic, self-absorbed, opportunist, are okay?

This is rich coming from the party that had a member call Obama a liar during a Presidential address to Congress.

[pandr32]

29. Conman is actually written as con man

As such--not on the list! Neither is:
racketeer
charlatan
cheat
con artist
traitor
fraud(ster)
psycho
phony
self-dealer
grifter
bully
braggart
low-life
etc. We could go on and on.

[onetexan]

73. K&R - oh how i love your list of descriptors

[Pepsidog]

32. They surely are the biggest snowflakes. I am sick and tired people thinking the right is so tough.

They are just a bunch of followers who cannot think for themselves and are just cowards. Just look at the aka enabling hearing and his conduct. The biggest myth, outright is that the left is soft and the right is hard and tough. It’s just total bullshit.

[MuseRider]

35. I hope Nadler starts the committee

by reading this aloud into the record. It needs to be heard and kept for all time and used with the definition of Republican Snowflake Mentality or something like that so that forevermore it can be pulled out to show how cowardly and belligerent and undemocratic these dumb asses are.

Read it in, have a few chuckles and maybe even take a little vote then put it aside with a head shake and a sigh and announce the meeting will begin about the Liar In Chief Donald Trump etc. etc. etc. using as many of those names as possible....or not. The head shake and sigh should be enough.

**Why are these people not too embarrassed to act like this? Honestly, I would never ever in a million years say anything like that out loud let alone write it where it can be read over and over again forever. They should be embarrassed and ashamed. Do they not even know what our government stands for? Embarrassing.

[Mme. Defarge]

37. Illiterate,

demented, unstable, depraved, deluded, uncouth, repulsive, fool.

[paleotn]

38. Jerry Nadler's two word response....

fuck you. Elections have consequences. You've said that yourselves, you lying, bigoted, un-American shit stains!

[TrollBuster9090]

39. Heh, UNLESS they're QUOTING from evidence transcripts, of course.

I mean, they didn't seem to object to any of those words when they were forcing Peter Strzok to read is text messages.

Let's get H.R. 'Puff-n-Stuff' McMaster, and Tyrantosaurus Rex Tillerson on the stand, and get them to repeat the times they called Trump a 'fucking moron.'

[joe_stampingbull]

40. more

fascist
bone spurs
John McCain

[KayF]

113. "John McCain"

great point

[UTUSN]

42. Bwah HAH!1

[yonder]

44. Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap. Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap. APB for The Ferret/Shower Cap.

I'd say we need his/her? unique style of descriptive English right about now.

Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap. Calling The Ferret/Shower Cap.

[Golden Raisin]

45. Were "Lock her up" and "Grab 'em by the pussy" on the list?

[durablend]

49. That's what I was thinking

Maybe our side should chant "LOCK HIM UP!" during the proceedings.

[Jarqui]

46. Aren't these GOPers as rabid to preserve the 1st amendment as they are

their warped interpretation of the 2nd amendment?
(Rhetorical question)

[defacto7]

48. Don't forget Crook

[Mme. Defarge]

56. Does cover-ups!

[blogslut]

50. There's more words, Doug.

More than can fit in your little head.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

51. Perhaps House Dems would agree if....

all Rethugs that said anything nasty, demeaning or derogatory about President Obama during his entire eight years would go on record that they retract and apologize for those statements.

How's that for a deal?

Sounds to me like Collins knows Trump like a book......

[onetexan]

74. what's good for the goose is good for the gander

Dems are just giving the crooked GOP a taste of their own medicine

[Freethinker65]

52. Individual #1, grifter, charlatan, panderer, demented, adulterer, Republican enabled, egoist, puppet

Useful idiot...

[onetexan]

75. K&R - another winner: USEFUL IDIOT takes the cake!!

[superpatriotman]

53. Synonym finder

There’s plenty of words - the best words - that we can use to battle the evil horde.

[muriel_volestrangler]

69. It also excludes all kinds of things; they can't say the president is not being "straight with us"

or had "not been honest". https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=la5pbBC7mmQC&pg=PA188

"Any suggestion of mendacity is out of order". This seems to make any discussion of Trump impossible.

[Shrike47]

54. 'Engaged in illegal activity' is what the hearing is about. Abusing executive privilege is accurate.

I’d give him a couple st most, maybe bigot in this context.

[70sEraVet]

58. Sorry about an old joke that fits the occassion

There's an OLD joke about the days of the Czar in Russia. After a particularly harsh set of laws were imposed, three poor tailors in a tiny Ukrainian town were complaining to each other at a local inn about the Czar. One says "He's a thief and a swindler!" Another says "He's an idiot, a nitwit!" The third says "He guzzles vodka lie a swine!" The local gendarme appears and promptly arrests them and brings them before the commissioner of police. The commissioner shrieks "How dare you insult out beloved Czar!" But the three frightened tailors told him that they were not talking about the Czar - they were complaining about the Inkeeper. Then the commissioner says, "How was the gendarme to know? When he heard 'idiot', 'thief' and 'swine', naturally he thought you were talking about the Czar".

[Liberal In Texas]

59. Welcome to DU

Amusing post.

[gopiscrap]

114. welcome to DU

[Hekate]

60. NOW you want civility? Good luck with that, minority pissants.

[Doreen]

62. Well now,

Every word I saw I thought of another that meant the same or pretty damn close to the same. A thesaurus would be a great tool. Basically they do not want any words that are truthful.

[Liberal In Texas]

63. Here's a few not on the list if the repuibs get their way:

Traitor
Grifter
Incompetent
Obese
Russian Asset
Russian Tool
Horn-dog
Impotent
Thief
Dead-beat
Puppet
Cheater
Bilker
Swindler
Rip-Off Artist
Mountebank
Hustler
Fleecer
Fraud
Swindler

There are more, just ran out of interest.

[pecosbob]

64. Quick...someone needs to make a mash-up video of Trey Gowdy using these very words

in his ridiculous hearings.

[Achilleaze]

66. Just call Dirty Donny* a "republican"

That term embraces all the other evil, immoral and criminal shit.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Owens]

68. Democrats need to give the Republicans their own list

Democrats should give their own list to Collins. Namely, they can't call Hillary any names.

[kentuck]

70. Someone tell Collins to go screw himself!

What a clown!

[BeckyDem]

71. I see LOOTER is not on the list.

Sanity prevails folks. lol

[czarjak]

76. Unbelievable!

[madaboutharry]

77. Dear Mr. Collins: Elections have consequences and you lost!

Doug Collins is right up there with the most smarmy creatures in the Republican party. Chairman Nadler should tell him to shove it.

[jcgoldie]

78. Awwe come on!

Without these descriptors how will anyone know they are talking about Trump?!?

[Ferrets are Cool]

79. I have two words for ya: Facist regime.

[rampartc]

80. nadler should begin by reading that list into the record, live on c span

and then repeat the list with an "in accordance with our distinguished colleagues' wishes please refrain from calling the president …."

then, each representative could begin their turn with a point of order : "mr chairman, am I to understand that I am not allowed to call the president" , read the list, then perhaps I will substitute "snowflake" in my prepared remarks?"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

81. A vertiable FIRST for Donnie. Not even Nixon had such a list! . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

82. It's a "cowardly" list. Why is it on top? Projection. Not alphabetical.

No woman elected or running in the US democratic system has dodged the draft.

[bluecollar2]

83. Do not call tRump "President Putin's lackey..."

Or Putin's sycophant...

People might get ideas.

[Leghorn21]

95. And never, ever refer to him as "Mrs. Vladimir Putin"!!

[muntrv]

84. Look who is enacting political correctness.

[muntrv]

85. Why? Those words hurt their widdle feewings?

[Firestorm49]

86. Here's an idea

Begin the hearings by publicly announcing all of the words and phrases that Collins doesn’t want used.

[avebury]

88. This is what the Democrats need to do:

1. Blow up the letter, add numbers by the “offensive” words, put it on poster board on an easel in the hearing room.

2. Enter the document as updated into the hearing record.

3. In light of Rep. Collins’ delicate nature, If a Committee member needs to cite one of the words, please cite it by the related number.

This would bring way more attention to the words than if Collins had just kept his mouth shut.

Another Democrat could request to enter into the record those words not included in the list which make them fair game.

It is all about playing the game better than the Rethugs.

[rocktivity]

89. Well, let's meet him halfway

Don't use any words against President Duh Donald that he hasn't used against others...


rocktivity

[Hotler]

90. Tell them to fuck off Jerry. I'll write the letter for you... nt

[smb]

91. It's Like A List Of Words...

...that have Old Orangestain's picture next to them in the dictionary.

[SWBTATTReg]

92. This should not fly. Goes against our reps' 1st Amendment right of free speech...

After all, if they can call liberals and all kinds of derivatives of this word, we can call them what we want too. After all, the so called president called one the wife of Britain's ruling family 'nasty'...until the POS apologizes for each and every single slur he's uttered, call him every name in the book! He's earned it.

[Nitram]

93. How nice of them to provide a list of Trump's failings. The irony is that many of them, used

the same terms when Trump was running in the primaries.

[3catwoman3]

94. How interesting that he has compiled a list of...

...so many of the traits that describe Cadet Bonespurs so perfectly. He must feel that such a list is necessary.

There would have been no such list about President Obama.

[BadgerMom]

96. Sounds like they know him well.

I’d say they should keep describing him accurately. They’ll do our jobs for us.

[Progressive Jones]

97. They cannot prevent use of these words. It's desperate whining. nt

[Victor_c3]

99. If a word was used by republicans to deride Obama, it should be allowed to describe trump n/t

[NBachers]

102. I'm sitting here as a diner counter, laughing my ass off. People must think I'm nutzo.

[Shoonra]

104. Print up some BINGO cards!!

Someone should print up BINGO cards with one of these expressions in every square and we watch C-Span of the House of Representatives and compete to see which sequence fills out a line first.

Every day's session a new game.

Someone else could keep track of the sequence in which these expression are first said in the House each day.for those of us who cannot watch TV in the daytime.

[usaf-vet]

105. When I was in the military I used to fish in a dry county.

A no booze county. BUT there was a workaround. When you went to a bar they only sold the mixes i.e coke, ginger ale, water, club soda, etc. You could brown back your booze and check it in with the house. They would issue you a number.

So your bottle of rum might be 23. Your vodka 19. You get the idea.
So you would order 23 & coke or 19 & club soda. You get the idea.

Considering most questions in these hearings are read from prepared statements.

So here is the brown bag version of Collin's list

#0 Trump, president etc.
#1 Cowardly
#2 Infantile
#3 Bilking the taxpayer
#4 Delusional
#5 Hypocritical
#6 Liar
#7 Amoral
#8 Lining the pockets of his cronies
#9 Draft-dodger
#10 Crook
#11 Conman
#12 Engaged in illegal activity
#13 Crook
#14 Racist
#15 Bigot
#16 Misogynist
#17 Un-American
#18 Giving aid and comfort to the enemy
#19 Spying
#20 Abusing power
#21 Abusing Executive Privilege
#22 Demagogue
#23 Disrespected the office

Each prepared statement is broadcast to provide a key.

So.. Isn't it true that your boss #0 is a #6 and a #14, and a #20 and of course totally #21. Answer Yes or No!

Well, you get the point. I went home many a night mostly drunk on #19 and club soda. Never having said the word alcohol. I was never sure why I had a hangover.

[MasonDreams]

106. Censorship is free speech

War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength
Big Brother has decided to dissolve Congress.
Elections will be abolished and the money we save will be used in the war effort. If you have questions or concerns please wait 'til after the war, we're busy.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

107. Read that list into the public record...

While remarking...”So everyone understands...Cowardly will be replaced by...scaredy-cat, Infantile will be replaced by Baby-like, bilking the taxpayer replaced by scamming the taxpayer...and on and on

Sticks and stones may break my bones but these words can melt snowflakes.

[democratisphere]

108. WTF is wrong with rethuglicons?

Where do they come up with this crazy stuff?

[LiberalLovinLug]

109. Because they know that Democrats might just fall for it. Based on history, why wouldn't they try?

For some of the Democrats used to the perpetual bending backwards strategy, combined with extreme PCism so as not to offend the frailest of the frail, I would not be surprised if they accepted this. Which won't make one iota of difference in the words the Republicans and Trump will be calling Democrats for even daring to start impeachment, let alone throughout the process. But hey, as long as WE go high...and we can go to sleep at night knowing we did our absolute best to not offend any demographic, and if Trump gets easier treatment and maybe even gets off because of it? Meh...its more important to know our party never crossed the line and stuck to the politeness rules (that they imposed).

[Cryptoad]

111. Capt BoneSpurs

poster child for Moral Turpitude
Thug
Idiot
Dufus

[Nuggets]

112. A list where he

wants Nadler to forbid these words.
No reason to oblige Republicans who falsely used the daily about Obama and the Clintons.

This isn’t any reason to begin any impeachment inquiry now, but I sure am amused by all the “reasons” we need to side step our leadership and try and force them into doing something when it’s not prudent.

I stand with Pelosi, Schiff and the 6 committees working on justice.

[Achilleaze]

115. republicans pissing on truth

as usual.