Adam Schiff is a man of peculiar reasoning. Like a dolt shouting louder at a foreign-language speaker in a bid to make him "understand," Schiff's decided that if he just keeps speaking long enough, we will all suddenly turn into anti-Trumpsters and throw Trump from office.

No kidding, he spoke for two and a half hours in his House manager introduction to the Senate impeachment court, the length of which alone was deadly to his case in the age of Twitter. Seriously, two and a half hours. Imagine listening to a dog barking for two and a half hours...

This sentiment pretty well describes how well that went over:

The Schiff strategy seems to be to bore, insult and bully Republican Senators into submission. This will backfire. The prospect of Repub Sens voting for additional testimony and documents seems even more remote today after only two hours into this planned 24 hour snore fest. — Ted Davis (@tedsthetruth) January 22, 2020

And this:

I am not even excited about this #TrumpImpeachmentTrial anymore I am watching something else and I turn back and forth to see what is going on and I see Adam Schiff rambling for like two hours now, this is already turning out to be a shit show. — Outspoken Marc (@MARCANDERSONNWO) January 22, 2020

And if it was bad for the flyover, imagine how it was to be trapped inside the Senate capsule with Schiff's words echoing off the walls and never, never, never stopping...

We all know Adam Schiff loves hearing himself talk. So, let’s give him something to talk about:



1) Why did Schiff collude with the "whistleblower?”



2) What instructions did he provide the "whistleblower?"



3) Why did Schiff hire the “whistleblower’s” co-worker? — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 22, 2020

Update: The Associated Press filed this:

The agony of the senator-jurors had begun to show the night before, with widespread but more subtle struggles to pay attention to opening arguments. Gum-chewing, snacking, yawning and alleged napping could be seen throughout the cramped chamber. Around midnight, things got looser. Senators paced and chatted near the wall. Then the prosecutors and Trump’s defense team got into a back-and-forth over who was lying and making false allegations about Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to help him politically.

...and...

But for many, Wednesday hurt. Roberts had gaveled Tuesday’s session closed at 1:50 a.m. Fewer than 12 hours later, the senators were back, with little sleep, for more of the same impeachment story, told by Schiff and his team in exhaustive detail. Even with Roberts’ scolding still fresh, many senators were in no mood for rules or traditions.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was seen nodding off, Sen. Rand Paul was seen working on his crossword puzzle, and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, who was actually one of two Democrats to escort Supreme Court Justice John Roberts into the room, voted with her feet.

“Goodnight,” @SenFeinstein said to me and @jenhab as she exited the Senate at 8:45 pm.

She left under the carriage entrance into an awaiting car.

There was almost an hour left on Wednesday night’s impeachment trial. https://t.co/7E1woQ0ENT — Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) January 23, 2020

An 86-year-old woman needs her sleep.

Sen. Lindsey Graham had a lot of eye rolls, too:

Quite frankly, having Adam Schiff lecture the Senate about fairness and due process is like listening to an arsonist talk about fire prevention. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 21, 2020

Even the Guardian noticed a problem:

House impeachment manager Adam Schiff was in full flow, prosecuting the case against Donald Trump. Over nearly two and a half hours, McConnell would not be the only Republican senator to nod off, yawn, rub their eyes or bolt the chamber. https://t.co/8qEYhAPQsV — Dan Haar (@dahaar) January 23, 2020

Here's another choice tweet:

The funniest part about the Senate #ImpeachmentTrial is the thought of Mayor Pete, Uncle Joe, & Daddy Morebucks etc. running around Iowa while their opponents stay up until 2 am voting on the most pointless procedural motions ever contrived. Dems interfered in their own election. — Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) January 22, 2020

Imagine Bernie Sanders stuck sitting through that while knowing all along he was within grasping distance of overtaking Joe Biden in Iowa, except that he had to be here. Same with Liz Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and maybe a couple others.

Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts seemed to have better things to do with his time, too, and told the Dems he'd had a bellyfull.

It's playing so well for Republicans that even NeverTrump Rich Lowry thought Cocaine Mitch (note: this term is a joke, a thumb in the eye of the left, and even McConnell thinks it's funny) should have given them more rope:

One thing you learn in journalism is the value of concision. It’s not clear that House managers are going to add anything to Schiff’s (pretty effective) 2-hour presentation in the ensuing 22 hours, in fact they may subtract from it



Maybe Mitch should have given them 50 hours! — Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) January 22, 2020

Not only did Schiff drone on and on and on — because effectively, he had nothing to say — but he had the face of a madman.

This what losing looks like — BoookemDano838⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (@dwalsh838) January 22, 2020

After failing to prove Russia collusion, or make a winnable impeachment case in the House, this is the latest Wile-E.-Coyote scheme is to bore us to death, telling us over and over and over again that which we already knew and rejected.

No wonder support is rising in the Senate for just throwing the whole thing out. Sen. Rand Paul, looking up from his crossword puzzle, says he's got 45 senators now in favor of scrapping the latest Schiff show and rising. Message: Make it stop.

GatewayPundit has a magnificent roundup of just how bored the captive audience in the Senate was.

And more significant, public support for President Trump is soaring. Gallup just reported that Trump now has the highest level of public support in his entire presidency. The more Schiff talks, the higher Trump goes. And stating the obvious, The Hill reports that the public is the only audience that matters. They don't do two-point-five-hour speeches.

Thanks for clarifying, Pencil-Neck.