The Morning Dispatch: We Watched Impeachment All Day So You Wouldn’t Have To

Plus, Boris Johnson’s about to make his biggest non-Brexit decision as prime minister so far.

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Happy Wednesday! We may not be coming to you live from beautiful Davos, Switzerland, but we did spend hours and hours staring at C-SPAN yesterday while our brains turned ever-so-slowly into mayonnaise. Who’s ready for a newsletter?!

Side note: Everyone who sent Declan this video of Mitch Trubisky repeatedly failing to complete a pass at the Pro Bowl last year, thank you. (Editor’s Note: Think about that. Mitch Trubisky …”at the Pro Bowl.” Too funny.)

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    Kevin Durant?

    “The evidentiary record that we have built is powerful and can clearly establish the president’s guilt on both of the articles of impeachment,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said.
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    Yeah you’ve got him dead to rights on Obstruction of Congress

    If he ever vetoes a bill you can impeach him for Obstruction of Legislation

    👍👍👍

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    Theirn Scott

    I saw an excerpt of the Nadler presentation that was the genesis the rebuke from Chief Justice Roberts. Someone on the Democrat side should vet his presentations. Of all of the managers, he is the most rabid. Decorum should be a high priority of these managers who are offended by the lack of it in our president.

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      Kevin Durant?

      I would guess that accusing Mitt Romney of “treachery” and a “coverup” for a procedural vote is not going to work out well as far as the 51-49 situation is concerned

      Then again they also accused Romney of killing women with cancer, assaulting gay people, and wanting to put black people in chains and that didn’t seem to bother him

      I just saw Andy McCarthy almost get visibly angry on TV so anecdotally it appears like the approach so far has been somewhat offensive even to the more measured and thoughtful folks on the right

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    JohnF

    Thank you for taking one for the team and watching (and summarizing) the Impeachment proceedings. For me, deciding to watch the TV coverage of the Impeachment is like deciding to go to a movie that hasn't received very good reviews, doesn't have any actors in it that you actually like, you already know how it ends, and you know that the ending won't have anything to do with the rest of the Movie. Even watching the evening news is painful this week.

    In trying times like these, I am grateful that the Good Lord created HBO and Netflix. Praise be to On-Demand TV!

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      Declan Garvey staff-badge Staff

      That comparison is spot-on. Now just imagine the movie is 3 to 5 weeks long!

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        JohnF

        That is why the Good Lord also had the foresight to create Hulu and Amazon Prime!

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    WKDawson

    Great! I learned a new word today; "synecdoche". If I cannot do much of anything to help fix the nation, at least my vocabulary will gradually improve. Keep it up.

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      Declan Garvey staff-badge Staff

      You weren't the only one who had to look it up 😂

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        Kevin Durant?

        I looked it up and I still don’t know what it means 😑😑

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  5. JF

    Thanks for the great content!
    Quick question: who is editing these for typos?

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    Theirn Scott

    I watched/listened to the Senate rules debate on and off but did catch the Jay Sekulow rant about lawyer lawsuits. I kept saying to myself, what the hell is he talking about? Aren't all lawsuits lawyer lawsuits? I always thought he was rather weird, that pretty much sealed it.

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    CynthiaW

    ***Six of [basketball player Tyresse Williford's] former high-school teammates have died to gun violence back home in Chicago.***

    "Died to gun violence"?

    Is this supposed to convey that they have rejected "gun violence," or that they have been victims of murder, manslaughter, or accidents involving guns? I assume it's the latter. Please don't say "gun violence" when you mean murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, or accidental death or injury. The operative subject is "human being," not "gun."

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    1. JF

      Looks like they just grabbed the language of the headline. For those who haven't checked, the article is more specific. "Six of his high school teammates have been murdered in acts of gun violence."

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        CynthiaW

        Thank you.

        (As if there was a possibility of their being murdered in acts of "gun nonviolence"? Anything to take the emphasis off the murderers and put it on the implement. It's like all those vehicles that "depart the road" without drivers.)

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    JDW

    I confess I am loving George W. Bush more and more every day. So if I'm any indicator, he is on the rise.

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      WKDawson

      Compared to this constant anxiety and malaise I feel these days about the future of this nation; indeed, yes. However, his Herculean blunder was definitely Iraq. Also, although I blame the financial meltdown of '08 on _our_ overindulgence and greed for the "deregulation" Zeitgeist (ignoring the Depression and the hard lessons learned), it did culminate during his watch.

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