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senseandsensibility

(26,261 posts)
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 02:13 PM 5 hrs ago

Jon Ossoff reduced Clayton to a blubbering, doddering old fool in his hearing

That is all. I don't have a link but I saw it live on CNN this morning. All I can say is if you have a chance watch it in full. It was truly a thing of beauty.

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Jon Ossoff reduced Clayton to a blubbering, doddering old fool in his hearing (Original Post) senseandsensibility 5 hrs ago OP
Was this the one who sounded drunk? I was listening for a few, didn't see the old guys name. Srkdqltr 5 hrs ago #1
Yes! senseandsensibility 5 hrs ago #2
He was either senile or drunk. I turned it off at that point. I have old senile here everyday i don't Srkdqltr 4 hrs ago #3
Which is like par for the course for this regime. The only qualification is being unqualified. Being senile and/or drunk Karasu 3 hrs ago #8
Sadly, that is true PatSeg 2 hrs ago #22
Video: Celerity 4 hrs ago #4
What a pathetic sniveling weasel. Americanme 3 hrs ago #6
Republicans couldn't care less. They'll confirm him anyway. Karasu 2 hrs ago #9
That guy gives weasels a bad name. patphil 2 hrs ago #11
They go out of their way to find the most unqualified people they can for any given position. It's deliberate. The only Karasu 2 hrs ago #14
Yeah, that says it all. Loyality to Trump is far more important than to the nation. patphil 2 hrs ago #17
Spouting run-around gibberish to run out the clock on Sen Ossoff!! Ars Longa 2 hrs ago #13
Ossoff rocked it! Guy is a Trump puppet and a coward. Joinfortmill 2 hrs ago #16
He's being forthright but won't answer any questions. Pathetic nominee! /nt bucolic_frolic 24 min ago #28
Cotton is such a piece of sniveling shit UpInArms 21 min ago #30
This message was self-deleted by its author hlthe2b 4 hrs ago #5
Wow DET 3 hrs ago #7
How on earth did he build him UP to that level?? lastlib 2 hrs ago #10
Republicans do have an uncanny talent for that. Karasu 2 hrs ago #18
OSSOF 2028. slumcamper 2 hrs ago #12
Would seem djt is well aware of both GA senators -- making an extra effort to have allegorical oracle 2 hrs ago #20
Jon is not at all interested for the moment. DFW 12 min ago #32
It's posted here FakeNoose 2 hrs ago #15
You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You could actually see Clayton's soul leave his body. aeromanKC 2 hrs ago #19
It was surreal senseandsensibility 45 min ago #24
Doesn't compare to Deborah birx and injecting bleach UpInArms 16 min ago #31
Some fun facts EnergizedLib 2 hrs ago #21
Beauty! ProfessorGAC 24 min ago #29
That was totally embarrassing canetoad 2 hrs ago #23
I bet they were doing more than that DFW 29 min ago #26
My favorite was when Ossoff said something like "The fist time you learned of this was in my office yesterday?" Prairie Gates 41 min ago #25
Jon is brilliant at making Republican lightweights reveal themselves in public DFW 25 min ago #27

senseandsensibility

(26,261 posts)
2. Yes!
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 02:29 PM
5 hrs ago

He went from sounding like the typical "in your face", cocky trumper to a befuddled mess in about ten seconds.

Srkdqltr

(10,251 posts)
3. He was either senile or drunk. I turned it off at that point. I have old senile here everyday i don't
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 02:33 PM
4 hrs ago

Need to watch.

Karasu

(2,506 posts)
8. Which is like par for the course for this regime. The only qualification is being unqualified. Being senile and/or drunk
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 04:30 PM
3 hrs ago

just gives you bonus points.

PatSeg

(54,300 posts)
22. Sadly, that is true
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:19 PM
2 hrs ago

Trump doesn't want intelligent, qualified people in his administration. They might outshine him.

Americanme

(610 posts)
6. What a pathetic sniveling weasel.
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 03:43 PM
3 hrs ago

Afraid to give any answer that may upset his orange leader, so he refuses to answer at all. How could anyone think he is fit or qualified?

patphil

(9,403 posts)
11. That guy gives weasels a bad name.
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 04:38 PM
2 hrs ago

What a slippery, disingenuous sack of shit. And he could be our next director of intelligence!
Where does Trump come up with these guys?

Karasu

(2,506 posts)
14. They go out of their way to find the most unqualified people they can for any given position. It's deliberate. The only
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 04:52 PM
2 hrs ago

thing fascists care about is loyalty to the "leader." That's it.

patphil

(9,403 posts)
17. Yeah, that says it all. Loyality to Trump is far more important than to the nation.
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:03 PM
2 hrs ago

I'm still wondering if there's a website out there where Trump can scroll through a list of "qualified" sycophants that are willing and ready to sell their souls to him.
If there was, I would imagine it would be called something like, www.suckups_R_us.com

UpInArms

(55,755 posts)
30. Cotton is such a piece of sniveling shit
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:11 PM
21 min ago

This cult of sniveling crapweasels beyond the pale

Response to senseandsensibility (Original post)

DET

(2,710 posts)
7. Wow
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 03:47 PM
3 hrs ago

That was bad. Really bad. Can’t these morons prepare better lies before they’re questioned? Clayton is a complete idiot - but he’ll be confirmed.

lastlib

(28,986 posts)
10. How on earth did he build him UP to that level??
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 04:36 PM
2 hrs ago

I would've put him a bit lower in the scheme of things.......like maybe a boiling putrid pile of hyena-shit.

allegorical oracle

(6,778 posts)
20. Would seem djt is well aware of both GA senators -- making an extra effort to have
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:15 PM
2 hrs ago

them both "illegitimately elected."

DFW

(60,953 posts)
32. Jon is not at all interested for the moment.
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:20 PM
12 min ago

It is nowhere near being on his radar. However, if Barack Obama watches a few of these sessions with some serious scrutiny, maybe he’ll call Jon on a secure line one fine day and invite him for coffee and an informal chat. Maybe Matt Santos was just a fictional precursor.

Don’t hold your breath, of course. But I have being saying for years that Jon had the highest intellect in the Senate. This exchange has done nothing to change my mind.

However, there is the legendary, if not entirely accurate exchange with presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and a supporter, where the supporter told him, “you have the support of every thinking American!” Stevenson is supposed to have replied, “that’s not enough. I need a majority!”

It is a situation we have had to face far too often. I fear 2028 will be no different.’

aeromanKC

(4,025 posts)
19. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You could actually see Clayton's soul leave his body.
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:13 PM
2 hrs ago

senseandsensibility

(26,261 posts)
24. It was surreal
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 06:48 PM
45 min ago

I agree. Hope it changed someone's mind about the guy. I mean, who could watch that and think the guy is qualified?

EnergizedLib

(3,306 posts)
21. Some fun facts
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:17 PM
2 hrs ago

Dogs can handle chocolate, cats can handle water and vampires can handle garlic better than MAGAts can handle reality.

ProfessorGAC

(77,833 posts)
29. Beauty!
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:09 PM
24 min ago

I actually use the "dogs shouldn't eat chocolate" thing when I sub science classes, with appropriate chemical structures.
Trying to get kids to grasp that there is science all around us all the time.
Your post just triggered that thought.

canetoad

(21,347 posts)
23. That was totally embarrassing
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 05:28 PM
2 hrs ago

And I bet America's enemies were watching, rubbing their hands with glee.

DFW

(60,953 posts)
26. I bet they were doing more than that
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:04 PM
29 min ago

Scratch an ignorant, incompetent Republican nominee for a nationally vital post for which he is supremely unqualified, and I’d guess his FSB handler is within a 3 mile radius, maybe a lot closer. He will be rubbing his hands with unrestrained glee reporting that “Ossoff has got us all figured out, and they still will vote to confirm this oaf.”

Prairie Gates

(8,817 posts)
25. My favorite was when Ossoff said something like "The fist time you learned of this was in my office yesterday?"
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 06:51 PM
41 min ago

He was incredulous: You didn't know that the predecessor for the job you want went to some Fulton County office to insanely seize voting machines?

And Clayton was like "That was when I became aware of it again recently."

Ossoff just said " What?" Like, what the fuck does that even mean.



DFW

(60,953 posts)
27. Jon is brilliant at making Republican lightweights reveal themselves in public
Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:07 PM
25 min ago

The Republicans will nonetheless continue to marvel at the Emperor’s New Clothes, and accuse us of being unpatriotic for not following their example.

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