Remember - not actually a transcript. A summary. According to the complaint the actual record of the call is sitting on an NSC server, which it should in no way be on. If it is, and it’s markedly different than what the White House put out (in the “he made it undeniably clear that funding would come in exchange for…

It’s been their strategy since 2015 and it's worked so far.

Boy, they are just going to drive this “the real crime is the reporting of the crime” bus right off the cliff, aren’t they?

Really. It’s nothing to be proud of, but it’s a definite truth.

That has been the BEST part of this whole smoking-gun festival so far. Watching the Great Fog Machine fail.

Bingo. Ironically Biden’s lead is likely entirely due to his perceived electability against Trump. If Trump is removed from office Pence is a much less charismatic candidate and support for Warren will probably skyrocket.  

The Prosecutor was corrupt as hell, and multiple friends of Ukraine worked really hard to get the Prosecutor turfed out, including multiple agencies from the EU, from the UN, and from other international justice and democracy organizations.

It’s moving too fast for them to spin it. We’re watching drummed up “whatabout” scandals being birthed and dying in broad daylight instead of being hatched in some think tank backroom to disseminate to the echo chamber the way they normally are. By the time they’ve landed on a spin to go out and use, something worse…

“After reading the report, you will understand why they released it. In the wake of the monumental fuck up of releasing the transcript to that call, this memo is actually pretty tame. It just kind of catalogs all of the events leading up to that call. It’s important, because it paints a clear through-line of the…

Ohh, ok, thanks for parsing yesterday’s puzzling “Democrats debate impeachment strategy” headlines for me..... I was wondering about all that scope-limiting talk, when she’d just given the keys to 6 committees. I didn’t realize she was asking us to see those committee investigations as separate (but still…

The “transcript” was a memo, and was incomplete. There are about 10 minutes of conversation, out of a 30 minute call. You’ll also notice that several times there are sentences which are clearly Trump starting to talk about how he wants an investigation, but they end with ellipses. Showing that they did not include…

He’s a fucking mafioso, plain and simple. That’s what his whole presidency boils down to: 1.) the social media troll presidency, and 2.) a sprinkle of the mafioso presidency.

Not to mention the Democrats finally went and started an official impeachment inquiry. You...like, there’s no “No legislative purpose” bullshit argument to drag before the courts. They can subpoena virtually anything they damn well please. Trying to delay now is just pissing into the wind.

100% agree.

Quite time, but also I think providing a timeline that this angle was being telegraphed for months by the administration makes it more damaging than a one-off phone call.

Fair enough. But what that also means is - if you’re correct that they needed this as damage control - is that the Trump administration is taking instructions from someone smarter than them, which I find shocking also.

I am shocked that we are looking at this today. This required Republican Senators’ and Trump cooperation. I am not holding out that they have grown a conscience of course, because lolololol, but nevertheless I am surprised.

Who knew that dogs could blow dog whistles?

It’s kind of unfair to blame Brady for following Belichick’s lead here.