Oxford comma, hell to the yes.

The "Lordy… tapes" line were easily the most quotable and blurbable of the proceedings.

John McCain's meds can't melt steel beams!

There's a handful of Hot Take short essays floating various legal-oriented media that the kinds of ambitious lawyers eager to make a name with high-profile clients and cases are steering wide of Trump like a drunk fratboy driving his underage girlfriend to prom.

Shut it down everyone, lil' Marco needs a reboot after pitching errors during McCain's stream-of-consciousness beat poetry performance:

This much planetary sideeye could be a pretty good premise for a Z-list disaster flick, ala The Core or The Day After Tomorrow.

I stopped asking whether they were trying to gaslight themselves or the rest of us months ago, and feel infinitely more sane for it.

You definitely needed more dismissive, belittling insults peppered in there.

Ortho-Retro-Counter-Counterpoint Hot Take: Wonder Woman was a feminist movie that was short on actually talking about feminist themes.

Oh, I'm certainly in this for prognostication of the hierarchical structures that are going to be there to cushion them (or not) after this is all said and done. The moral calculus - they'll be galley slaves for Barron's pleasure barge as it makes slow laps of Manhattan.

GREY POUPON IS THE CONDIMENT OF THE LIBERAL CUCK ELITE.

Bannon and Flynn are going to be straight-up persona non grata.

You're letting the Terrorists win (at McDonald's Monopoly)!

If the best play they've got is to let the Fox and Breitbart shills edit the thing down into a narrative that preserves the rank-and-file, that's as much damage control as they could reasonably hope for today.

The real fun is going to be watching whomever scramble and stampede to distance themselves once the tipping point gets reached.

…Two Things.

JESUS, TAKE THE GAVEL!

Oh, I've long subscribed to Duverger's law. I still hold to the principle that partisanship is a sometimes frustrating, but essential and necessary component of representative democracy.

The line of questioning from Warner about DAWES seemed slightly non sequitur at the time.

I suppose they might see it as their one Hail Mary play…?