"Dems emerging from William Taylor's testimony are describing it as a sea change and a bombshell"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Greg Sargent ✔ @ThePlumLineGS

Multiple reporters are saying that Dems emerging from William Taylor's testimony are describing it as a sea change and a bombshell and a real blow to Trump.

Just a reminder...

Greg Sargent ✔ @ThePlumLineGS

Replying to @ThePlumLineGS
As Bill Taylor testifies today, let's remember:

Taylor *twice* objected in those texts to a quid pro quo which froze military aid to leverage Ukraine into helping Trump corrupt our democracy.

Taylor had a *reason* for thinking this quid pro quo existed:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/22/trump-embraces-fellow-autocrats-abroad-he-corrupts-democracy-home/ …

1:20 PM - Oct 22, 2019

[Scurrilous]

1. ...

[live love laugh]

39. And with all this evidence the Republican owned media

only harps on the “Impeachment Showdown”.

[dalton99a]

2. It took Bill Taylor an hour to deliver his opening statement

The opening statement from Ambassador Bill Taylor took roughly an hour to deliver, according to multiple people in the room. Sources said that the statement was rich with detail.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-22-2019/index.html

[Leghorn21]

3. No prisoners, Mr. Taylor

THANK YOU

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Rep. Lynch on Taylor: "This testimony is a sea change," it could "accelerate" impeachment timeline

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Ben Siegel ✔ @benyc

Rep. Lynch on Taylor: “This testimony is a sea change,” adding that it could “accelerate” impeachment timeline in the House.

1:07 PM - Oct 22, 2019 · Washington, DC

One hopes!!

[Botany]

13. Rep. Lynch on Taylor: "This testimony is a sea change," it could "accelerate" impeachment timeline

[calimary]

41. Interesting lines uttered on "Morning Joe" this a.m.

I made a quick list, from what quite a few talking heads said:

Tipping point

A sea change

Smoking gun

An inflection point

Radical change

Something’s changed/is different/has shifted


They’re feelin’ it, from the strength and weight of even just the little we know of Ambassador Taylor’s presentation yesterday. And all they’ve seen as outsiders is Taylor’s 15-page opening statement.

[Botany]

42. Just remember we haven't even seen the Mueller report yet. It has to be damning because part of

Trump/Pompeo/Rudy/Barr's dealings with various Ukrainian entities had to do with trying to
cast doubt on the Mueller report and Trump/Russia 2016.


Just remember you can't be pro American and pro Trump @ the same time. Treasonous bastards.

[triron]

21. Trump committed treason (again).

Is that enough to remove or not Repukes?

[stopdiggin]

5. if they can nail down substantive "reason to believe"

then, yes .. this IS a big deal.
(A lot of Rs are having, and are going to have, a real hard time choking this down)

[RVN VET71]

43. Linda Lovelace once joked in an interview

that she couldn't choke on anything. Similarly, the GOP will not have any trouble, umm, swallowing whatever the unelected failed real estate mogul in the White House shoves . . .OK, OK, I think you get the point.

(And, yes, serious apologies to Ms Lovelace who, it turns out, was not an altogether willing participant in what she referred to as her "rape on film." The same cannot be said for the GOP, for any of its pols, voters, or officials, however.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I had high hopes for Ambassador Taylor.

He has the look of an honest man.

[deminks]

7. "We're going to need a bigger impeachment boat."

best comment I've read on Twitter so far under the Rep. Lynch post.

Link to tweet

[yellowcanine]

11. Does that mean room for Pence also? Be still my heart.

[NewJeffCT]

12. I'm hoping for Barr

Impeach him and I think it will knock Team Trump out of whack

[shanti]

20. He's the one I want too

Cut him out of the picture, and there would be mad flailing.

[lagomorph777]

22. And Mulvaney please

He said he does quid pro quo "all the time." Really? Details, please, Mickey!

[NewJeffCT]

24. I'm sure he does

Saudis - "we'll look the other way on Khashoggi if you give money to Jared and me"

Russia - "we'll lift sanctions if you help us win in 2020"

Turkey - "we'll stop protecting the Kurds if you promise me 90% occupancy at Trump Tower Istanbul"

[Turbineguy]

26. Wow. Bummer. Double whammy.

Trump sucks out your soul and you go to jail.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

40. Barr's Do-All Dirt Service: Dig it up, make it up, or bury it

[LAS14]

25. Wouldn't we then have a President Pelosi????????

I know, I know. The senate will never convict. Still......

[warmfeet]

38. Don't be so sure regarding conviction.

They may very well jump ship if the political tides turn. It can happen very quickly. Then again, it may not. Keep up the pressure, and we will see what we shall see.

[calimary]

45. THAT'S the most important point. Right there. Keep up the pressure!

Keep up the pressure.

Keep up the pressure!

There! I completed the repeat-three-times strategy. Very important! (Very important. Very important!)

[B Stieg]

8. And the walls will come tumbling down...

as they should for a once-in-a-lifetime CROOK like tRump! #ItsAboutTime

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Obligatory:

Some people ain't no damned good...

[robbob]

15. Also obligatory:

[Kaiserguy]

10. The one point that always seem to be missing from the reporting

is that Trump want them to make something up about Biden since there was nothing to see.

[lagomorph777]

23. He wanted Ukraine to Trump-up charges, not a real investigation.

[mucifer]

27. It would be great if the media would report it that way. It's clear the prosecutors in the USA

couldn't find anything so they had to threaten other countries to make stuff up so they could get what congress had allocated to them legally.

[Duppers]

36. Exactly! Why can't they state the bloody obvious...

...for the knuckleheads.

[hibbing]

14. Yes, I'm a cynic, there have been bombshells everday since he took office n/t

[smirkymonkey]

29. Same here.

Nothing is going to get me excited until it's a done deal. Until he is actually behind bars, stripped of all his assets and/or dead.

[robbob]

16. As I posted in another thread:

I'm hoping there will be other even more damaging revelations about the dumps abuse of power. While I realize blackmailing Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Biden is an impeachable event, it’s something we already know (yesterday’s news?), and tRump and his minions have already done their best to normalize it.

Again, I realize that just what we KNOW, just what has already been admitted and revealed through the transcripts is criminal and impeachable, but in order to really swing anybody still sitting on the fence (hard to believe there could be at this point), I want to hear and see evidence of even more criminality...

[Botany]

17. Happy Orange Turkey

Here’s the perfect centerpiece for your Thanksgiving feast. Champagne and oranges flavor this special bird that will become one of your favorite turkey recipes ever. —Tara Baier, Menomonie, Wisconsin

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/happy-orange-turkey/

Ingredients

3 medium oranges
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 turkey (14 to 16 pounds)
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 small onion, cut into wedges
4 fresh rosemary sprigs
2 fresh thyme sprigs
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Turkey-size oven roasting bag
1-1/2 cups Champagne
1/2 cup orange juice

[durablend]

18. Awaiting the Twittler rage

"DEMS WANNA THROW ME INTO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR RIGHT NOW!!!!!"

[NBachers]

28. I'd like it if he called it "THE ELECTRONIC CHAIR"

[klook]

31. LOL, that's what they call it in Esperanto, I believe. (nt)

[NBachers]

34. Humor's the most subversive tactic of all.

[klook]

37. .

[RVN VET71]

47. Couldn't deny the truth of that statement

or the earnestness of the desire!

[UTUSN]

19. K&R

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[H2O Man]

30. Recommended.

[NCDEM4EVR]

32. SPIN THIS MotherF&%(Rs

That's it nothing more to add at this time

[calimary]

46. I'd add: JAIL this MotherF&%(R!

[empedocles]

33. Meanwhile at fox at 4 news, low profile down the hour, about 'con concerns

[patphil]

35. I would not be surprised if Soundland is called back for further testamony.

He may be singing a different song then, based on Taylor's testimony.

[RVN VET71]

44. An explosive sea-change?

Kind of contradictory -- but I guess it depends on how you look at it. I favor explosions over the gradual encrustation that transforms a thing in a sea change. But on the other hand, gradual encrustation has a certain appeal to it as well.

Festina lente, perhaps?