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Don’t encourage him.
This strikes me as a statement carefully crafted by lawyers to avoid perjury charges without providing a sound bite that explicitly mentions the Bidens or Burisma.
The rightwing press can now quote this out of context as being a call for an investigation of corruption in general.
This isn’t directly impeachment-related, but it appears that Bevin (R) has lost his race for the Governorship of Kentucky. As a man who went all-in for Trump and all-out for impeachment, if this holds up Moscow Mitch will be making a call to the Kremlin from that burner phone he saved for such an emergency. 
No, not just yet. There are 5 rural counties with no votes in yet and Beshear is only ahead by 13,000 at the moment. Bevin could still pull this out.
MSNBC is reporting this as too close to call.
Yes, because it actually mentions something illicit.
Yeah, as I tweeted: “I’m seeing a lot of congratulatory tweets about KY, but no tweets showing this one being called (except by one guy who everyone is relying on). Any other citations for the KY win?”
I’m glad I qualified with “appears”. 
They just now called if for Beshear (D).
It’s extremely close. If Donald Trump were a more energetic would-be dictator, I’d expect him to workshop the “system is rigged against Republicans” messaging that he’s sure to need in November 2020.
But he may be more interested in getting in some golf.
Why on earth didn’t every Congressional-beat reporter have the October 9 tweets cued up on a pad to show Graham? And why didn’t every cable news show have the same tweets ready to put up on the screen?
Missed opportunities.
One rather stupid argument that I’ve now seen twice is that it can’t be a quid-pro-quo if Trump gave them the requested aid.
Alright, so, let’s say that I am the clerk at the DMV. You come in to get a new license. I tell you, “No, not unless you slip an extra $20 on, otherwise you have to wait until after the holidays.” You at the $20 which I slip into my pocket. I give you the license.
In this story, is the fact that I gave you the license evidence that I did not solicit a bribe?
He did both, but that isn’t the main point: It was stupid of Schiff to do what he did because in addition to adding to the “fake news” fire, it gives the impression that he thought what was said on the phone call wasn’t in and of itself enough to convince people that Trump was doing something wrong. It makes him look weak and untrustworthy, and that will not help him convince those who need to be convinced of Trump’s wrongdoing.
Who gives a shit what Schiff said? He paraphrased a document. Boo hoo.
And in other news, The Virginia statehouse will be controlled by Democrats for the first time in a generation. Gun control and more health care, perhaps?
I don’t know who else gives a shit, but some people might. Seems you aren’t interested in my point, though, so that’s fine.
“Looking at all this evidence, I cannot forget that moment when Adam Schiff paraphrased. I never saw it, of course… I was at work… but, God! What do I believe, the evidence or a summary of a single document?”
I missed the Schiff sideschow. Anyplace I can look to get up to speed on it?
TIA 
Because most of them are useless. They mostly just ask useless yes-no questions where it’s obvious which answer is going to be given. “Senator Graham, should the President be impeached?” “Mr. President, did you break the law?”
What the fuck do they think is going to be the answer to such stupid yes-no questions?
“This is the essence of what the President communicates.”
He says in advance that it’s a paraphrase of the conversation. The Republicans are grasping at straws with their whining.
Sure, but that can conveniently be edited out, leaving only the idiotic and unnecessary imagined conversation to be shown over and over again, feeding the fake news narrative.