I don't know how the Democrats in Congress can take this shit.

[madaboutharry]

I would have already been thrown out of the room many times over. The Democrats must be made of steel not to completely lose it at some point and tell these frauds to go fuck themselves.

Listening to this twisted bullshit hour after hour is torture. We, watching it from afar, can turn it off and go do something else. These poor congresspeople are stuck in the room forced to listen to Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Louis Gohmert bloviate their endless lies.

Having this on live television all day has been a great public service. It has confirmed that republicans are unpatriotic, have no respect or loyalty for The Constitution, and have forsaken their oath of office to join the cult of Trump.

[hauckeye]

1. You said it!

They are the biggest bunch of jackasses I’ve ever seen. I have to mute the TV when they’re on.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Bloviating is right.

Now it is down to...why impeach a President who has improved the economy?

Democrats are quite composed for the moment. It is when the lights are shut off, the fireworks will begin.

[gilligan]

12. I heard that one.

So much bullshit I need a shovel to navigate my living room when I'm watching the hearings.

[jimlup]

3. The Repukes are essentially filibustering

This will not end well. The Repukes will have to be shut down. When that happens - I have no idea of the rules.

[bluestarone]

5. I do believe this is their plan

How can they be stopped?

[jimlup]

6. I don't know the rules ...

maybe they can't be

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

45. I'd say spike all their drinks with LSD but

I don't know if anyone would notice.

[democratisphere]

4. The Democrats don't have a choice. The are holding their own

against the rethuglicon propaganda machine that is relentless. Talking about living in an alternative Universe!

[pnwest]

7. They are purposely making us angry and TRYING to get under our skin, and I don't understand

what purpose it's supposed to serve. I am blown away by the Dem's ability to remain unruffled, and calm and be the adults in the room. I'd have flown across a desk and torn out a larynx by now. We at home can at least employ the mute button, but those Dems have to sit there and listen to the insanity and the lying and the hatefulness for hours and hours and hours on end, and they have been aMAZing with their ability to remain cool as a cucumber. I don't know how they're managing it. Good on them, Schiff, Nadler and every last person on those committees who are sitting through this bullshit for the good of the nation. True patriots.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. They are doing it because they can

They all know that the second it hits the Republican Senate, it is all over......DOA

WASF

I have to admit, that if I were one of the Male Democrats, I would risk being thrown out of the House and sent to jail.
I would go over and give that supreme asshole Jordan an ass whupping he would NEVER forget. He would need false teeth and talk funny for the rest of his miserable pathetic life. I might even get MY picture on TIME magazines cover next issue.......

What a despicable excuse for a human being.

Where do they get these people???????? Is this the best the Republican Party has to offer???????? And a president that starts flaming outrageous tweets at a teenage girl who is trying to be a sane voice for our environment.....Oh wait, she is a female, and she disagrees with him, so that makes it justifiable ?????????????????

[abqtommy]

8. The Democrats in congress can take it. They get the big bucks for being there and that helps

pay for their psychological care and their single-malt whiskey. The fact that they do their jobs well is a
big plus.

[katmondoo]

9. In the end I believe the Republicans will pay a price for this ordeal they are putting us through.

[abqtommy]

14. Hope springs eternal... Alexander Pope, died 1744 *

* “Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Please make it so......n/t

[BigmanPigman]

10. Zofran for vomiting and Xanax for anxiety.

That is the only way I would be able to sit through the GOP BS!

[yellowdogintexas]

40. and a very good mouthguard for my gringing teeth nt

[budkin]

11. Trying like hell to stop Trump from being impeached

And there's nothing they can do about it.

[vapor2]

27. Right, they can't stop this train

[Mr.Bill]

13. And every amendment they vote on and lose,

represents the republicans saying "Thank you sir, may I have another".

They have done nothing but spew gibberish and get spanked all day.

[world wide wally]

15. Democrats are pissing me off too.

Especially when they say, "my colleague across the aisle." Instead of, " that asshole over there"

[madaboutharry]

16. Lol!

[Lulu KC]

24. Ha ha ha good one! n/t

[EveHammond13]

17. ...and that they are just RELENTLESS DICKS.

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. And yet, when Faux News shows these "heroes" fighting

for the tRUMPenFurher and "owning" the libs they will be happy with their reps.

[paleotn]

19. I'm going to get trashed for this, I just know it....

But I don't care. I'd like to knock the living shit out of Matt Gaetz. I'd be hustled off to jail and very happy man.

[vapor2]

26. You are not alone

AND he really thinks we give a shit about Hunter's drug problems when he has had 2 DUI's??? Hank Johnson shut his ass down.

[exboyfil]

36. A body slam gets you probation

Just ask Greg Gianforte.

[warmfeet]

20. I could not take it.

I appreciate their capacity for patience and tolerance.

I have very little of that ability.

What I would like to do, I cannot say - at least not without jeopardizing my freedom.

My patience is wearing very thin, of late. Very...fucking...thin.

I want the asshole gone. I don't much care how it happens.

[Karadeniz]

21. Valium.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I have thought the exact same thing.

I couldn't do it. I am in awe.

[Lulu KC]

23. Amen

I truly do not know. I would have run screaming from the room within the first four hours. Without the mute button, I would be unable to bear any of it. Hats off to all of them, particularly Committee Chair Nadler!

[Joinfortmill]

25. exactly

Hopefully, we can vote them all out of office. The GOP is dying from pervasive criminality.

[Traildogbob]

32. They are all brain dead

A tRumper called Thom Hartmann today and asked "What planet are you on" to Mr Hartmann. He said we finally have a president doing what he said he would, he is building the wall and saved the economy. And nobody ever talks about Obama and his world tour on the tax payers dime. Mr Hartmann as always was way too kind. I wanted to jump through the radio and rip the face off the idiot trumpfuck. That is the enemy we face. Stupid fucking cult.

[napi21]

30. THAT'S one reason I never ran for public office! I don't have the patience. The Dems are

putting up with it because they expect the same when they are the minority.

[Hulk]

31. I listened on the radio as I drove around for a few hours...

Oh my God, how entertaining. Swallwell, Nadler, Johnson, and all the other Democratic American and Democratic Congress members are saints! To put up with such crap for HOURS!!

Someday this will all be a distant memory, but we must NEVER forget who stood for our Constitution, and the checks and balances that make our government a functioning democracy.

We must NEVER FORGET which party turned a blind eye, knowingly and willingly, to allow this degenerate pile of orange puss to disgrace the office with daily insults, adolescent tantrums, and high crimes and misdemeanors. Shame on them today...and shame on them until EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM LEAVES CONGRESS!

[SCVDem]

33. You Tube!

I did it for YOU, the people!

[kyburbonkid]

34. I would have WIGGED man

Listening to the (R) suckup to Trump and help him get away with his crimes, makes me want to puke.

[Arthur_Frain]

35. You can bet management had a sit down with every single one of them in that room.

I was thinking about this during the course of the proceedings. This is a case where any reasonable person watching the proceedings is going to come in on the side of the facts. All you have to do is stay out of the way. I’m betting there was a sweat lodge moment just before this all began, where it was impressed upon everyone there.

“Look, we are asking you to sit still and look dignified while the idiots on the other side of the aisle are going to throw anything and everything they can at you to see if they can make anything stick. If they make anything stick, it’s a win for them. Don’t lose sight of the big picture, we actually have a very good chance at accomplishing something important, very, very, important here, and if you can retain your dignity, not stoop to their level (remember the adage about not wrestling with pigs) and continue to fire back decently with a sole focus on the issues at hand, then at the end of the day, when the dust has all settled, we will have won.”

I imagine that’s pretty much what they were told. Be the adults in the room, and let the children shit all over themselves. We’ll deal with their shitty diapers later, when they run out of steam.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. Maybe Chairman Schiff has been holding serenity and meditation

groups for the past several months (maybe a little bit of yoga too)

[Arthur_Frain]

43. Ommmmmm......

.....peachment!

[JudyM]

47. Folks watching who have been prepped by faux news probably relate more to what they perceive as

righteous, justified ranting at the outrageous behavior of the Dems. The “news” and repubs and the WH have set the table with “how to see through the conniving of the Dems”...

How I wish “This is a case where any reasonable person watching the proceedings is going to come in on the side of the facts.” No, I’m afraid faux news viewers’ minds are all solidly framed against us...

If we cannot put constraints on the lying perniciousness on the other side, or start putting some real money into highly potent countervailing public messaging, the “facts” will remain malleable in the eyes of far too many voters.

[Arthur_Frain]

48. I don't consider fox viewers to be reasonable.

Nor do I think countering fox’s mendacity will change any minds of any fox viewers, no matter how much money you throw at it. They’ve been far too effectively groomed, and are pretty inoculated against any truth you might try to hit them with.

This does get a little tribal. The sputtering indignation and elementary school theatrics of hand lettered posters of outrage behind their chair. WE look at that and think “my god, grow the fuck up would you?” Their constituents consider that to be a suitable response to the way they have been “maligned, mistreated, ignored, etc.”.

I was very happy that for the most part, our side stuck to the issues, kept bringing the focus back on the reasons for being here, and avoided getting dragged down into the feces with the shirt rollers on the other side.

History, hopefully, will not look kindly on these goons in 20-30 years.

[WinstonSmith4740]

37. I know!!

How these guys can handle it is beyond me. I probably would have been thrown out. I haven't been able to actually watch too much of it, but did the Dems ever remind those whiny little twerps that they WROTE the rules they were bitching about?

[BigDemVoter]

38. I have been shouting obscenities at the TV. . .

I cannot stomach one single repig. I hate them ALL.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Have Dems been told to not counter their crazy arguments

Only see contra-argument occasionally.

[Sogo]

41. I believe the Rs are filibustering....

....trying to put off the vote.

Dotard will lose it once he's officially the third president in US history to have been impeached.

[JohnnyRingo]

44. I think we may have a new national motto

"You gotta be shittin' me".

That's what I kept saying every time the republicans came up with something more ignorant than the rant before them. Now, DJT is a two fisted corruption fighter who tried to get help rooting it out for our country and then hid the transcript so it would never see the light of day because Trump is a modest man who doesn't like to toot his own horn. And he can't be impeached because black people are working.

You gotta be shittin' me. Put it on the new Trump quarter.

[Rhiannon12866]

46. I don't, either. I had the same thoughts after watching only a few minutes

Turned on the TV when I came home and the first offensive words I heard from a Rep from Louisiana made me wonder how Rep Nadler could remain calm. I couldn't and I had to change the channel.