I'm gonna do a side by side of their testimony, but I'm not kitted out for that this second if anyone wants to beat me to it.

Today sucked.

Today took all day, you know?

Probably lucky that I was in super-important work meetings basically all day yesterday, but from what I've seen of the summary/overview...jesus.  Having grown up in the DC area, anybody who went to Georgetown Prep is automatically an asshole until proven otherwise, but this guy really seems like a Major League bellend. 

Also helps being all out of tears because of the fucked-up clown car crash that my adopted country is at the moment.

I got called by a political pollster last night... that was fun.
Favorite question-
Pollster: Republican or Democrat?
Me: *deep inhale* unaffiliated independent moderate liberal that’s frustrated with both parties and the party system
*pause*
Pollster: ... alright...

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

This is the best, and we need all the laughs we can get. (Can't figure out how to embed Twitter video using BBCode, alas.)

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Transcript: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nat … a65814718c

Full tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnczBf3DSnk

The video of him being confronted in the elevator is flipping intense. You can just see the shame oozing out of every pore on his body.

I love her "no, I'm gonna talk to him!" Hope the FBI can actually get something done in a week. That sounds like not nearly enough time.

Mine has been pretty firmly in the "It doesn't matter what happens with these testimonies, he's going to get ramrodded through no matter what." to now with Flake flipping and an actual investigation (A shot in the foot investigation, but an investigation), I have no idea man.

Is this what hope feels like?

At this point I'm counting on him being reelected, though I reaaaaallly hope my cynicism is proven wrong. I don't think the main wing of the Democratic party has learned any lessons from 2016, and if they run another centrist whose chief attraction is that they're not Trump it's not gonna be enough.

As Lindsay Graham correctly said the other day, if the Democrats want to get their guys appointed, they gotta start winning some elections.

Mike Moore was on Real Time last week and claimed the USA was liberal on most issues. He's probably right.

And yet, the GOP are in control of just about everything, everywhere.

But no one tried to reconcile these two facts.

Hilary had much more money, most of the media on her side, all the celebrity, political, and business endorsements, had more experience and qualifications, and got more votes, didn't grab pussies, and still lost.

I guess gerrymandering, voter suppression has something to do with it. Also, the electoral college that favors empty rural states, Fox News, right-wing radio. But still, to an outsider, it's weird that the GOP gets more than 1% of the vote - as this is the percentage of the country they make no bones about representing.

But Britain can't talk. There was a general election in 2017... the Prime Minister Theresa May ran a terrible campaign (just chanted 'strong & stable' for a month, after years of austerity and rising inequality and screwing up Brexit, and still got returned to power. In Australia too, the conservatives keep winning despite being behind in the polls between elections.

The left are just no good at playing the political game. Whereas the right can make Joe Sixpack chant 'getcha govnent hands off my cancer-ridden body' and believe healthcare is against their interests. And support tax cuts for billionaires. It is an impressive con job, but makes one depressed about human nature.

We'll see happens in the mid-terms... blue-wave, red-wave, or status-quo. Any bets? I wouldn't be surprised if nothing much changes. Millennials would have to stop taking photos of their cereal and go and vote...

Well goddammit.