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Ashcroft: "Are you scared of the truth?"
Sanchez: "Oh, I am not terrified of the truth at all, seems like you might be."
You need to watch those clips in the Xitter link. Sanchez is on fucking fire and does not let up.
I'll watch it somewhere, but it's not going to be at TwitX.
Edit here: https://youtu.be/pIsVB-H_M_8?feature=shared
The most relevant part starts around 4:22 but the whole thing is good (well, up until the YouTuber jumps in with his take, which fortunately is after the CNN segment)
Holy shit that was embarrassing for Jay Ashcroft. He proved he's a legal scholar equivalent of a nepo baby because he is so grossly incompetent at understanding how state law works. If this guy was your attorney, the very real question of capability and competency would come up.
Hopefully his dad will help him understand the law better because having 2 J Ashcrofts be that hilariously dumb is a bad look.
I've heard better arguments from an L1 than this bozo. But you know what they say: if the law is on your side, pound the law. If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If neither is on your side, pound the table. All he has is the table.
Thanks for the non-shitter link
Fantastic. 🍿
I also immediately switched off when the YouTuber started talking.
We need more journalism that pushes back like this.
We certainly do, but we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that would accomplish much with these fuckers. They'll just start avoiding the journalists that refuse to stay neutral or lob them softballs.
It's not like their supporters are going to shame them for doing that, either. I'm shocked any Republican talks to any reporter that isn't from Fox News anymore.
They’ll just start avoiding the journalists that refuse to stay neutral or lob them softballs.
The problem with that is thinking that the follow-up question, "How so?" is anything BUT neutral or a softball. It's just a basic question; it literally could not be MORE neutral.
This fool could have been on Newsmaxx or OANN and gotten that same question from a friendly interviewer trying to offer him the space to lay out more slanderous innuendo, unaware that Jay Ashcroft is completely unprepared for even that tiny amount of latitude.
I know that's not your position or what you personally are advocating, but jesus fucking christ that's an easy one. "So-and-so did something bad." Response: "How so?"
To blatantly twist a quote from The Godfather, Jay Ashcroft showed up for that interview with nothing but his dick in his hand . . . and his hand wasn't even full.
The follow-up question was literally "What accusations are you making against Biden to justify removing him from the ballot?"
Like dude, you can literally make up anything and your base would eat it up. You couldn't even do that. What a moron, and he'll still lose almost zero support from his base because they didn't actually pay attention.
The Ashcrofts have always been smooth-brained. But Jay's is so smooth that quarks could ice skate on it.
Oh, wow. I hadn’t put 2 and 2 together that this is John Ashcroft’s kid. Chip off the old block it appears. 😂
you can literally make up anything and your base would eat it up
They know.
They do. Every day.
Isn’t Missouri the show me State? Is this fucktard going to show any evidence of insurrection or just blather on about how other governors have made the claim of insurrection against Biden? My god Republicans are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid to the fucking core.
That's why they attack education constantly. Education prevents conservatives.
Please stop assigning stupidity to things that are openly and brazenly malicious.
He's brazenly malicious and stupid. You can be both. He is both.
Their business is only in propping up accusations, so he's just gonna blather.
Missouri is one of the last and proudest slave states (followed only by Arkansas, Texas, and Florida - go figure?). They routinely slaughtered Kansans for their refusal to brutalize and own other humans. Rush Limbaugh is from there. Ferguson police just shoot black people for sport and openly laugh about it. It's an infected polyp on the anus of racist America with some of the worst, most hateful people scowling and lurching around in it.
That this chud would be representing the people of Missouri is not a surprise at all.
They do have some lovely scenery though, and there are a few decent people there as well. Just - on the political front, you can pretty well expect when you hear Missouri it won't be good news.
The GOP can never actually explain their reasoning when people push back usually.
Almost like they have no reasoning!
You can’t tell me this clown is not inbred. Or at least the progeny of some sort of greasy-haired weasel creature.
His dad was afraid of the nipples on statues.
I miss the days when he was the most embarrassing Attorney General J. Ashcroft in the country.
I thought this was the same guy and was thinking he aged well
He's the son of former (G.W. Bush) U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft... soooo...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ashcroft
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft
https://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/justice-is-blind-but-most-visitors-aren-t-1078680.php
I knew asscraft was involved with this somehow.
There it is. Was wondering if there was any relation, to the point where I had half a mind to look it up myself. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
It's nepotism and cronyism all the way down.
OOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Right!
Well fucking hell, Missouri.
some sort of greasy-haired weasel creature.
Brutal imperialist torture lawyer, as it happens.
Ashcroft got absolutely roasted holy Christ. "Duh duh duh huh what??? There have been allegations! I just don't know them"
Um um um... They're in Hunter Bidens laptop! And in Hilary's email! And uh... Pizzagate. Um... PEDOPHILES! VOTER FRAUD!
Sadly, I grew up in that state and I can tell you that a huge swath of the people that live there will see it the exact opposite.
I'm not surprised. I'm in Virginia and I see MAGAts argue that having the gall to ask why is in and of itself an admission of guilt.
"Bidens a traitor!"
"Why?"
"YOU KNOW WHY IF HE'S INNOCENT WHY YOU SO WORRIED ABOUT IT HUH?!"
Wow. The look of utter and genuine surprise at how our government functions is absolutely priceless.
What a snowflake. He literally whines about being interrupted.
Gosh, how rude. Ashcroft wanted to ride out the clock with a gish gallop and the mean interviewer wouldn't let him. What happened to journalistic standards?
Why would Rolling Stone link to Shitter rather than directly to the CNN interview?
They are enabling their oppressor
Edit: I tried to post the clip from CNN. After it hanging because it was stuck on the pop ups to allow it to track me even off their site and requests to push non stop ads to my cell phone in the middle of meetings and dinner I gave up.
There has to be a way.
Oh no, not SCRUTINY!! GOPs kryptonite.
‘What’s your legal argument?’
‘Your honour, it’s the perennial argument of I’m Rubber, You’re Glue, as put forth in the case of Billy vs Jimmy in the schoolyard, 1954. The teacher in that case argued that Billy was, in fact, glue…’
Melting down is the new "slammed."