This wasn't a debate, it was an attempted character assassination. Which failed, because there was nothing more to dig out of this manufactured controversy than had already been discovered and dealt with when Strzok's emails first came to light. Trump's toadies in the House of Reps only wanted to rake Strzok over the coals again so they could achieve two things: diminish the reputation of the FBI (and by extension, the Criminal Justice division in charge of investigating their King); and distract from Trump's blundering in the UK, his blustering about the EU, and his upcoming idiotic and potentially dangerous unsupervised one-on-one meeting with Putin.
From his demeanor, Strozyk's obviously dealt with a lot tougher customers than these Republican dweebs in the House. He rarely lost his cool, and even when he did (like when that a-hole from Texas levied the personal insult against him for having an affair), his angry response was still rational and composed.
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eYeDEF (5050)
6 years ago
Ah yes, Gohmert making that crack about him staring unfaithfully into his wife's eyes.
Yet he fails to ever question his lord and king in the White House who has serially cheated in every relationship he's ever been in. I'd like to see a reporter ask him to use that line of questioning on Trump. He'd probably melt in the corner in fear.
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Sandoz (2021)
6 years ago
...Gohmert. Doesn't his name sound like it would be perfect for a character in a story who's a servile henchman to the main villain? The sort who's too ignorant, petty, and just not diabolical enough to be a Big Bad himself, but just evil enough to be a boot-licker in service of his master. Kind of like Maximillian to Professor Fate in The Great Race.
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eYeDEF (5050)
6 years ago
Hahah!
Well the guy is notorious for being the dumbest member of congress hands down. That title should leave him lots of competition in a House filled with dipshits, but it's really not close. He's the poster boy for why gerrymandering is deeply harmful to the republic. He's in such a gerrymandered to a fault Texas district it makes him safe from ever being held to account for being the national embarrassment he is.
But yeah I can see your point about him being too dumb to be truly evil, but dumb enough to be truly dangerous.
He's the anti-vaxxer and birther who argues about marriage equality being the path to legalizing bestiality. Right wing quackery manifest, he blew a fuse somewhere. He's even called John McCain a pro-Al Qaeda terrorist.
Somewhat stunningly, he's a former judge. Imagine him ruling over your case. My head would explode.
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Sandoz (2021)
6 years ago
Oh jesus, I didn't know anything about his background...he definitely sounds certifiable. It certainly makes it more understandable why that Congresswoman shouted "you need your medications!" at him.
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