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It’s our sad duty to clean up after a night of stunts in the House chamber. At least we’ll have Greg Dworkin to help out. I wouldn’t want to have to do this alone!

It’s also the day scheduled for a final vote on the articles of impeachment in the Senate. So we may not be done tearing up papers just yet, either.

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Happy Tuesday! I won the Iowa caucuses! And I’m going to take them home with me and lock them in the basement forever!

Hopefully, Joan McCarter can join us today, unless THE ESTABLISHMENT rigged her coffee! We’ve got caucuses. We’ve got the SOTU. We’ve got impeachment. What a time to be half-awake!

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Happy February! And congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs! You strongly represented the great state of Chiefs, and every US American loves you, such as!

Meanwhile, back on Earth, we are in the third week of the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. And we’ll also have the State of the Union Address, sort of. It may or may not be about the union, in the end. And it’s not even in a state. Plus the Iowa caucuses, which Trump thinks is a porn movie.

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So this is it. Today, we find out WTF comes next in the Trump impeachment trial. Could be witnesses. Could be nothing. Greg Dworkin joins us in trying to guess. But the problem is, the players we’re trying to guess about are all dipshit fascist puppets.

So, that’s a show!

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So it’s Monday, now. Technically, it’s Day Two allotted for Trump’s defense in his impeachment trial, Day One having been Saturday, but which everybody has forgotten about already. Not just because they lied their asses off, but because before we even made it out of the weekend, Lev Parnas and John Bolton had torn out the foundations of everything the “defense team” had said during Saturday morning cartoon hour.

We’re in for another wild week, if you’re into facts.

Or, just Week 158 of The Presidential Apprentice, if you’re a collaborationist liar.

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Friday, Day 3, the final day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. David Waldman has us pass in our fidget spinners and pay attention, this is important stuff. Yesterday Adam Schiff soared ever higher in a plea for truth, justice and the American way. In counterpoint, Trump forces asserted their innocence with promises of heads on pikes, and Trump shouting at henchman Igor to take Marie Yovanovitch out.  Lev Parnas is so untrustworthy that he was repeatedly in contact with a top aide to the ranking republican on the House Intel Committee. Besides, Ronald Reagan did it all too, maybe worse, and he’s beloved! Today is the last day to dislodge Trump before Republicans attempt to stuff him back in. Much of the Democratic strategy is to preemptively refute the steaming pile of Republican narrative. Did Nancy Pelosi buy Dems time to get their case together? Saudi Arabia sawed a journalist and hacked Jeff Bezos. Then, Trump sent them troops. Today it’s business as usual... and funny business as usual. Ivanka moved a lot of money through Iran, lining the pockets of some guy named Soleimani. A Soviet counterintelligence officer exited the June 2016 Trump tower meeting with Don Jr., picked up half a million bucks on his way out, and opened up his own Anti-Defamation League. If you want to talk real money however, check out what FIFA passes around. Surprise! The leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group is tight with Russians. Oops! The opioid crisis isn’t a “public health emergency” anymore.

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This is it. It’s Friday, at last. And it’s the last day of opening arguments from the House managers. Next up: a three day festival of lies from the “president’s” defense team. This is going to be difficult to sit through.

But we’re not there yet! We get to go into the weekend still in control of the floor. So let’s talk about what people will be talking about for the weekend, before they start talking about it.

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Thursday. Another day, another flood of evidence impeaching Donald Trump. Another day we need David Waldman and Greg Dworkin to distill and clarify: So far no one has shouted “Objection! Your Honor” or “Overruled. Proceed.” and yet even Matt Gaetz has been impressed with how the Democrats made their case. Republican Senators would be so impressed if they attended, or attended to, the trial. Senator Mike Braun hasn’t even attended to the last few years. It could have been worse, but a couple of Republicans needed it to look fair. Support for removing Trump exceeds his support. A lot of his base knows Trump broke the law, but wish that no one else did.  Most Americans however want witness testimony. A majority of Americans know Trump broke the law, and most want his removal. White voters are polarizing on class, people of color are managing to avoid that. Oh, if only we could go back, start over and pretend this never happened, but alas, that isn’t happening. No one is overturning the election. That is one of those lies, that if you debunk it, you end up spreading it. Donald Trump lies and lies and lies, but, he just said he didn’t so maybe… No, he lies. And who can blame him?  When has lying ever let him down? The White House Memo relies four times on the Sondland call where Trump said, "I want no quid pro quo." That never happened. There is proof it didn’t happen. But, who are you going to believe? Trump’s legal rebuttal to the House's impeachment case avoided the truth whenever possible. The White House brief’s attached OLC memo says that subpoenas issued prior to 10/31/19 are invalid because there was not a formal impeachment inquiry vote. In fact, the White House argues that a conviction could be "unconstitutional" because of the way the House's articles are written. David explores how any of that could be considered true. The whole Trump clan didn’t hesitate to glom onto any grift they could from the first second of Dad’s inauguration. Is it too late to impeach Ronald Reagan? How about charging him with treason?

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Hey, Happy Impeachment Trial Thursday!

I guess we’ll be doing it again, and then again tomorrow, now that the “rules” have spread things out over three days. After that, it’ll be Democratic Senators’ turn to get up and walk out on the presentations of the defense.

If you haven’t had a chance to watch: Trump did it, and is totally guilty. That’s not news, but we’re going to report it, anyway.

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IT’S ... Kagro in the Morning! David Waldman reviews Day 1, and previews Day 2 of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which is of course, constitutional nonsense that defies legal consensus, or even eye witness consensus. David and Greg Dworkin however do consense that a fair trial must include witnesses and documents, and that this isn’t one of those. Adam Schiff kicked off and scored in the inaugural opening of Trump Trial One. Democrats showed their strength early by running up a score from the very beginning. Mitch McConnell caved before the end of lunch break. John Roberts blew his whistle after midnight. Oh, Dems are still going to “lose”, probably, but they aren’t giving it away for free... and, no matter what, Republicans aren’t going to “win”. Trump pre-celebrates by bragging about hiding evidence. A Biden-for-Bolton trade and could end up with two bad deals for the Democrats. We need to pick between good witnesses and fun witnesses. Let’s hear what Pat Cipollone knows. Richmond’s MLK Day gun rally was an outbreak of terrorism on American soil. It is impossible for the Richmond gun rally to be both peaceful and intimidating. It did have a sense of style, though. (I think my mom has that babushka!) The alt-right boogaloo some had planned didn’t sound too bad either, until the mass killings and destruction part. Oh, yes, the election. Joe Biden still leads the 2020 pack, though his smile might be a bit less sunny lately. FLASH: Hillary Clinton Is Not Running For Anything.  Martha McSally might as well give up. Trump has ground to make up in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, but is still a threat somehow because voters really just aren’t all that they would like to pretend sometimes. Mohammed bin Salman might have considered posing as a Nigerian prince with Jeff Bezos but instead went with the old infected malware ploy. RIP Terry Jones.

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Hey, it’s Wednesday! And you know what Wednesdays used to mean, right? But remember how Tuesdays were now supposed to mean that? Well, this week, Wednesday means that, again.

And that “that” is that it’s Joan McCarter day! Yes, it was supposed to be that yesterday. But the new Tuesday schedule is clearly destined to become the new “I’m still writing last year on my checks,” now that nobody writes checks anymore.

Anyway, the timing appears to have worked out just fine. There was a mad rush to get ready for the impeachment trial yesterday, and Joan was right in the middle of the excitement. Today, we’re still in the thick of the impeachment proceedings, but now with 100% more Joan McCarter.

But, wait! There’s more! My screw-up with the schedule also means you get one more Super Bonus Wednesday, featuring Greg Dworkin as well! Joan, Greg, and the impeachment of Dotard J. Trump. What could be better?

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Martin & Lewis. Simon & Garfunkel. Aniston & Pitt... There wasn’t a dry eye this morning at KITM World Headquarters when David Waldman welcomed back persona grata Armando… And, it is about time. These are trying times with big questions in need of answers, such as how the Senate plans to try absolutely nothing and no one in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and get away with it. The impeachment trial begins with a debate about the rules, about which the OLC will tell you there is only one rule and Alan Dershowitz will tell you that is one rule too many. Midnight Mitch believes that with 51 votes there is no debate. He can call yes, no, he can make day, night, and what are you going to do about it, at least without a time machine?  David and Armando analyzed the situation and came up with ideas. We can only hope Senators tuned in this morning. Regrettably, the long awaited Clinton & Sanders reunion has at present, been postponed.

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