# Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 9, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940 "2022-06-09T22:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 43
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/841 "2022-06-27T18:42:48Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > it was akin to the Zelenskyy extortion (“Read the transcripts !”). Hidden in plain sight Which reminds me… Wasn’t there supposed to be more information in the actual recording(s) of the call(s), but it was saved to an ultra-secret server that it was… unconventional? Out of the ordinary? to save it to? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/842 "2022-06-27T18:56:58Z")
perhaps cipollone? ms cheney has referenced him quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/843 "2022-06-27T18:59:20Z")
Cipollone or Jeffrey Clark, too. I don’t exactly see him as the bulwark against breaching the Trump firewall of corruption. That early morning pyjama party with the DOJ reported last week might have refocused his priorities. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/844 "2022-06-27T18:59:33Z")
I don’t think Cippolone would be enough to schedule this out of nowhere unless he had a bombshell to report. I think it’s something new, either very incriminating video footage or something out of the blue that no one is expecting. We’ll see, but I’m looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/845 "2022-06-27T19:05:07Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Take Rusty Bowers, for example. He voted for Trump, and said he would vote for him again, yet the refused to cheat for Trump and was willing to testify about it. I think that’s sufficiently “Honorable”, and more so than a lot of Repubs these days. It was certainly enough to [rake him over the coals](https://www.realbowers.com/) for being too liberal. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/846 "2022-06-27T19:06:49Z")
I thought there was a transcript of the Zelenskyy extortion in some duper-dee-duper secure server. If I was Biden, I’d have that in my hands before 2:00 on 1/20/21. I do hope tomorrow lives up to expectations. I don’t think we’ll have a major witness flip, more likely a smoking gun in a video clip ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/847 "2022-06-27T20:12:44Z")
the committee/staffers have been told not to speak to press and “go dark” until tomorrow’s hearing. something is rumbling. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/848 "2022-06-27T20:16:15Z")
I would have been a lot more excited by this news a few days ago. Even if Trump and everyone associated with him got thrown in prison tomorrow, the damage is done. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/849 "2022-06-27T20:47:01Z")
Yes, but let’s try it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/850 "2022-06-27T20:53:02Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > What could it be? There is talk of a flipper - maybe Mark Meadows? Given the super-secrecy, my money’s on Jeffrey Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/851 "2022-06-27T20:57:23Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Given the super-secrecy, my money’s on Jeffrey Epstein. He’s been in super secret witness protection in a safe house? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/852 "2022-06-27T21:00:41Z")
My money is on: Film of Trump watching the insurrection unfolding on TV, and gleefully hoping Pence will be hanged. Along with obvious support for the insurrection, and possibly statements along the lines of “they’re doing just what I told them to do!” And this will not move the needle one iota in terms of Republican support for Trump. Fox will not even cover it. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/853 "2022-06-27T21:04:19Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He’s been in super secret witness protection in a safe house? I’m just saying, whoever’s writing the plotline for this reality is stuck in a rut of shitting on the protagonists. Throw in some bonkers soap-opera bullshit for a change. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/854 "2022-06-27T21:07:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He’s been in super secret witness protection in a safe house? Double Secret Probation ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/855 "2022-06-27T21:08:54Z")
Plus probable mocking imitation of the scared congressmen fleeing the carnage. I agree that this probably won’t shift needle since most of his supporters probably reacted to 1/6 in exactly the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/856 "2022-06-27T21:14:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > My money is on: > > Film of Trump watching the insurrection unfolding on TV, and gleefully hoping Pence will be hanged. Along with obvious support for the insurrection, and possibly statements along the lines of “they’re doing just what I told them to do!” I could see this. > [@](#): > > And this will not move the needle one iota in terms of Republican support for Trump. Fox will not even cover it. I could see this too. But what if we threw in “while getting sodomized by Kelly Ann Conway?” Could that move anything? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/857 "2022-06-27T21:20:40Z")
I don’t think it’s something in Holder’s documentary footage. It will take longer to go through it all and craft a strong presentation out of it. Even if they found some bombshell in the first hour of viewing, I’d think they want to take their time and go through it all before scheduling a rushed release. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/858 "2022-06-27T21:22:40Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > … But what if we threw in “while getting sodomized by Kelly Ann Conway?” Could that move anything? It would move my stomach contents outward. Violently. Given my druthers, it would be something which would expose the antidemocratic movement (for which Trump is the current embodiment, a mantle that DiSantis among others would gleefuly take on) as the abomination it is, to the point that even Faux News would have to repudiate it. I’d also like the ability to flap my arms and fly to the moon. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/859 "2022-06-27T21:24:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > He’s been in super secret witness protection in a safe house? > > Double Secret Probation JFTR: I actually _did_ try to just leave this one hanging. Epic fail. > There is a little known codicil in the Faber College constitution which gives the Dean unlimited power to preserve order in time of campus emergency. We thank you for your forbearance in this matter and now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/860 "2022-06-27T21:47:39Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Thanks, I’ll check that out. Hopefully it’s the actual hearing and not just Rachel Maddow talking over clips of it. You know Youtube exists, right? Every minute of every hearing is available on multiple channels there. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > I do believe this is exactly the intended effect of these hearings, to soften the blow when indictments come. It’s heartening to hear it’s working at least to some extent. I think it’s to try to get the Justice Dept. to do their job. Comments by committee members sure seem to imply this is the case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940.md?page=44)