To update and paraphrase the old chestnut, the revolution, er, coup hearings will be televised:
So the opening of the public hearings on June 9 and the conclusion of the public hearings Jun 23 will be held in prime time. The other 4 will be during working hours.
I don’t remember the Watergate hearings, but my 2 eldest siblings do and they were transfixed. I am guessing that this will be similar, but I do not think that this will sway Republicans (just like Watergate never did), BUT it might get to the allegedly non-political citizens who proudly do not vote that something important happened.
At any rate, this will be historical.
Mock Paper Scissors 
In 1974 there were three national TV channels ABC, NBC and CBS. Radio was sports and music. Yes the Watergate Hearings were must-see TV.
But back then the entire Republican party wasn’t made up of evil clowns and cartoon villians who ask things “Say the baby is halfway out of the birth canal…is it still ok to abort it then?” and “Can you define “woman” for me?”
in 2022 there are literally thousands of ‘TV channels’ between broadcast (digital broadcast here in my corner of the TTSKoA alone is like 17 channels), cable (hundreds) streaming (hundreds) and the Interwebs (thousands and thousands)
Us politically agitated Olds will be watching them, not sure about those proudly non-political citizens who do not vote.
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Seen on twitter – “if a woman has been raped by an alien and that baby is halfway out of the birth canal, would it be okay to abort because of the tentacles?”
Also seen – the jerk asking that question claiming that he is NOT posing hypotheticals.
RME (roll my eyes)
I remember watching the moon landings. I think we got three channels at that time.
I also remember the Heidi bowl. Mom made me watch that movie, and it wasn’t even a great movie. They shoulda kept the football on.
Neither event was as directly impactful on the survival of democracy – even though the claim was we had to get to the moon first so Russia wouldn’t win… something.
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We had a watch party at a friends house for the moon landing. It was a Big Deal for our family.
It may have not been impactful on the survival of Democracy, but it was a thing We The People did that was not directly about war: “We came in peace for all mankind” was a significantly powerful statement in 1969.
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7/ When the GOP takes power next year and hold months of hearings on Hunter Biden’s fucking laptop, begins impeachment proceedings on Biden over “failing to secure duh border” and has months of show trials about Afghanistan or antifa, remind me how great six hearings sounds.”
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Prime time, eh?
They finally figured out how to get TFG in front of the committee.
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I’m marking my calendar to never forget today was the day the leader of the Republican party called for civil war.
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It will be interesting, but perhaps more as historical proof that the evidence of insurrection was laid out for all to see, and the insurrectionist party was not deterred in the slightest from continuing the very fascist takeover that the hearings document.
“The system worked” in 1972, but is it possible to get a “the system worked” outcome now that one of our parties is avowedly authoritarian? I have my doubts, TBH.
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I don’t know. People have their minds made up about TFG, I really doubt any hearings can change that. Especially since they are going lowbrow here. If they made it like a game show, or better yet a survival-type show, they might get a few more viewers. Hang Donny by his hams above a pot of boiling oil and drop him an inch at a time, that might get viewers.
I just don’t see any enthusiasm for a couple of hours of factual hearings.
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