Random Tweets On A Late Autumn Evening

This is tiring. Neither Chuck Todd nor any other anchor is going to yell at Kennedy that he's a liar. You interview them because they're national figures. If they lie, they lie, and you can't spend the whole interview in a tangle with them because they're impervious to shame. https://t.co/ZIGm9aYOUT

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 1, 2019

Apart from arousing the ire of people on Twitter against Todd ( just for different reasons), what good would it really do?

Sen. John Kennedy argued in a testy exchange with NBC's Chuck Todd that "both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election," claiming without evidence that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko "actively worked" for Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/u4jrGm73HM

— Axios (@axios) December 1, 2019

"Without evidence" is not a phrase media used to associate with office holders, not even McCarthy.

The dilemma is that he’s a member of Congress, so voters have decreed that what he says matters. This is the box American democracy has put itself in. https://t.co/iVKXhROLRW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 1, 2019

The dilemma is that American voters are obligated to think, and learn, for themselves.

The collective IQ of Republican politicians falls further every time one desperately tries to defend the indefensible:
a politician who delayed military aid approved for an invaded military ally so he could extort campaign dirt on a political opponent. https://t.co/HHQmnSb8qm

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) December 1, 2019

a) Ukraine had already been cleared on the corruption question, and b) Trump released the money the day the whistleblower report was released; c) "READ THE TRANSCRIPT!" No mention there of corruption, either.

What the actual? https://t.co/wokreIJcUs

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 1, 2019

Christmas time us here. (You have to follow the tweet Rick tweeted.)

I was on set for @MeetThePress - all my fellow panelists stared at each other in disbelief as Senator Kennedy spun the very disinformation that Fiona Hill, a Putin and Russia expert, warned us about. pic.twitter.com/HHZyTmchT9

— MARIA TERESA KUMAR (@MariaTeresa1) December 1, 2019

Yeah, I was watching it happen in my living room. Pretty fucking amazing. He kinda walked back his earlier walk-back, too. Now will he was back the walk back of his walk back by claiming he couldn't hear Todd ask him about his walk back and where Ukraine is on a map? Stay tuned.

With prime minister out, Iraq in constitutional ‘black hole’ https://t.co/ENI4hyrbvl

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 1, 2019

Trump's silence/indifference to this is probably a good thing. Sadly. In other news: one knows how Iraq feels.

#spotthetraitor https://t.co/aH1roozDZk

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 1, 2019

Yeah, he said that, too. I think the word "liar" was pretty much superfluous at that point. Along with the word "delusional." And bringing the day to a close with a "You didn't want to sleep well tonight anyway" story:

“[P]eople ... are uncomfortable by what they witness. ... [Trump] stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information, not occasionally but with regularity [and] also can't remember what he's said or been told.” https://t.co/4w11ctOlZA

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 1, 2019

You're welcome.