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December 4, 2019
Fox is the only place the Con is not being laughed at...
https://twitter.com/thedailyedge/status/1202354322249572352
December 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1202276648936235013
Turley is a hypocrite....
https://twitter.com/markdstrauss/status/1202289193713405953https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1202276648936235013
December 4, 2019
Rudy still trying to manufacture dirt....
https://twitter.com/jesselehrich/status/1202275189830098945
December 4, 2019
The entire world should be laughing....except it's absolutely frighteningly evil...
https://twitter.com/newsweek/status/1202349377353920512
December 4, 2019
What Turley just did is gaslight America, telling those of us seeking to uphold rule of law that we're just acting hysterically. His conclusion: if you are a well-trained attorney, investigator, researcher and/or journalist who believes Trump committed a crime, you're just "mad."
1/ Turley is *right* that many of us, me included, are angered by injustice, violations of the rule of law, lies being told about us and/or our nation in the media or by politicians. What he assumes, without evidence, is that the angry can't act justly or soberly or with caution.
2/ Today I heard 20 minutes of audio that was all about me. The audio included so many lies about me, my history, my actions, my views, my philosophy, and my values that I would have to blow *days* responding. I won't. There's no time to waste on lies. So I'm angry, but resolved.
3/ On *infinitely* more important matters than anything having to do with me, Americans are angry about the whirlwind of lies and risible behavior this president has brought into our information ecosystem. That doesn't mean we can't or don't act soberly and with resolve about it.
4/ Pre-Turley, I'd never heard an attorney use the defense "y'all just mad" to thousands of pages of sworn federal testimony establishing both federal felonies and impeachable conduct, nor to a Congressional report detailing and carefully citing the key elements of the testimony.
5/ As a defense lawyer I learned it benefits poor behavior to consider only a portion of a record, and benefits truth to look at its entirety. I urge anyone looking at a tweet/essay excerpt of mine to read the whole thread/essay. Congress must do the same with the Ukraine record.
6/ What's amazing in this impeachment is that even a poor defense to criminal charges usually can take a portion of a record and highlight how it raises questions. Trump's defense *forgoes* that usual route and instead simply lies about the facts, law and convention. Turley, too.
7/ I've received death threats, threats against my job and more for years. From other quarters, I've been libeled through lies about my actions and deliberately misleading selective quotation of past essays/tweets *attached* to the longer record that'd prove the quotations false.
8/ The country writ large has been abused, gaslit and libeled in a very similar way, so I feel keenly what I think is the same sort of anger all of us do toward Trump/others at the local and national levels. We must never let righteous indignation be confused for lack of purpose.
9/ Attorneys are keyed into looking at the entirety of a record, reading closely for the meaning of words, taking an exceedingly dim view of anything taken out of context or presumptions made about people without evidence. You see it in the three justifiably angry lawyers today.
10/ We're in the gaze of history now: members of Congress, members of media, all of us on social media, indeed all Americans. We'll all face accusations of acting emotionally or for ourselves, and must hold fast to what we know to be true and honorable, whatever critics say. /end
Seth Abramson...Turley is gaslighting America
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1202267217485803521.htmlWhat Turley just did is gaslight America, telling those of us seeking to uphold rule of law that we're just acting hysterically. His conclusion: if you are a well-trained attorney, investigator, researcher and/or journalist who believes Trump committed a crime, you're just "mad."
1/ Turley is *right* that many of us, me included, are angered by injustice, violations of the rule of law, lies being told about us and/or our nation in the media or by politicians. What he assumes, without evidence, is that the angry can't act justly or soberly or with caution.
2/ Today I heard 20 minutes of audio that was all about me. The audio included so many lies about me, my history, my actions, my views, my philosophy, and my values that I would have to blow *days* responding. I won't. There's no time to waste on lies. So I'm angry, but resolved.
3/ On *infinitely* more important matters than anything having to do with me, Americans are angry about the whirlwind of lies and risible behavior this president has brought into our information ecosystem. That doesn't mean we can't or don't act soberly and with resolve about it.
4/ Pre-Turley, I'd never heard an attorney use the defense "y'all just mad" to thousands of pages of sworn federal testimony establishing both federal felonies and impeachable conduct, nor to a Congressional report detailing and carefully citing the key elements of the testimony.
5/ As a defense lawyer I learned it benefits poor behavior to consider only a portion of a record, and benefits truth to look at its entirety. I urge anyone looking at a tweet/essay excerpt of mine to read the whole thread/essay. Congress must do the same with the Ukraine record.
6/ What's amazing in this impeachment is that even a poor defense to criminal charges usually can take a portion of a record and highlight how it raises questions. Trump's defense *forgoes* that usual route and instead simply lies about the facts, law and convention. Turley, too.
7/ I've received death threats, threats against my job and more for years. From other quarters, I've been libeled through lies about my actions and deliberately misleading selective quotation of past essays/tweets *attached* to the longer record that'd prove the quotations false.
8/ The country writ large has been abused, gaslit and libeled in a very similar way, so I feel keenly what I think is the same sort of anger all of us do toward Trump/others at the local and national levels. We must never let righteous indignation be confused for lack of purpose.
9/ Attorneys are keyed into looking at the entirety of a record, reading closely for the meaning of words, taking an exceedingly dim view of anything taken out of context or presumptions made about people without evidence. You see it in the three justifiably angry lawyers today.
10/ We're in the gaze of history now: members of Congress, members of media, all of us on social media, indeed all Americans. We'll all face accusations of acting emotionally or for ourselves, and must hold fast to what we know to be true and honorable, whatever critics say. /end
December 4, 2019
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These people excuse all manner of evil doing to be ok when committed by its chosen...and the Con is one of their chosen. All in Jesus name...
Meanwhile, I am becoming more convinced that we have been taken over by America's jihadists
‘ The Family is an American documentary web television miniseries that premiered on Netflix on August 9, 2019. The series examines a conservative Christian group—known as the Family or the Fellowship—its history, and investigates its influence on American politics.[1][2][3]
The series was executive produced by Jeff Sharlet, who previously wrote books about the same organization, including C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.[4]’
https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/the-family-netflix-review.html
https://popculture.com/streaming/2019/09/04/netflix-series-the-family-twitter-firing-off-comments/
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/08/241076/the-family-netflix-donald-trump-chosen-jesse-interview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(miniseries)
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These people excuse all manner of evil doing to be ok when committed by its chosen...and the Con is one of their chosen. All in Jesus name...
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