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  1. 1.

    ploeg

    I dunno, I think that the photo needs a circle around the source’s posterior and some arrows pointing to it.

  4. 4.

    Yarrow

    Apparently Schumer has called for Nunes to be removed from the investigation committee. Nunes needs to be investigated himself, but that would be a good start.

  6. 6.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    I’m beginning to think that we really will get through this shitshow fail parade more easily than we ever thought. We just have to let them fuck themselves over. It seems to be the only thing they’re good at. I know that their dumbfuckery alone will leave us a hell of a mess to clean up, but we can deal with that. At least we’re likely to have a country left when they’re all gone.

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    The only thing that’s obvious from this WaPo front page is that it is quite clear Melania is the WH source Nunes met with to review the information in the SCIF.
    She’s been Putin’s inside handler this whole time.

  9. 9.

    Bonnie

    Nunes seems to be giving Darrell Issa a run for his money for being the biggest scumbag from California.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    Barron looks like a young British boy about to be shipped back out to boarding school for another term. And everyone there hates his father.

  12. 12.

    Roger Moore

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    How did this guy get to be the chairman of a committee? He’s as dumb as a hatful of assholes. Why would Ryan sign off on having a dumbfuck like this run anything?

    Your problem understanding is your foolish belief that Republicans want somebody smarter than a hatful of assholes running stuff. They don’t believe that the government can do anything right, and they’re going to keep promoting the dumbest people they can find until everyone agrees with them.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    Speaking of media, here are a couple of WSJ headlines (articles are paid) you might not hear about from Fox News

    Dow Suffers Longest Losing Streak Since 2011

    Foreign Investors Flock to Iran as U.S. Firms Watch on the Sidelines

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    @Corner Stone:
    If she’s trump’s handler, she’s going about it very strangely. Don’t handlers normally want to stay close to the person they’re handling, rather than doing their best to stay in a different state?

  18. 18.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I don’t get it.

    Yes.. is the Post implying Melina Trump literally pumped Nuns for the information? The thing is, the Trump admin is that messed in the head Trump pimping out his wife or his daughter isn’t out of the question.

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Well the first thing the Trump admin did after wining the election was purge Christi and everyone associated with him. The instinct to backstab is strong there.

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    @Roger Moore: Read the quip under the story. She’s never seen outside of Trump Tower. The WH stopped recording visitor logs after inauguration.
    All the planted stories about how miserable she is and how she didn’t want this lifestyle foisted on here.

  25. 25.

    zhena gogolia

    @Jerzy Russian:

    That’s their slogan, like the New York Times’s “All the news that’s fit to print.” I was puzzled by it at first and thought it was a jab at Trump, but it’s there every day.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Major Major Major Major:
    @Baud:
    @TaMara (HFG):

    I didn’t get it either from any of the featured articles/photos, so I started reading across the “In the News” slugs right under the masthead, and now I’m pretty sure it has something to do with “Breastfeeding Lindsey Graham.”

  28. 28.

    Patricia Kayden

    Republicans were successful in forcing Attorney General Loretta Lynn to recuse herself from an investigation involving Secretary Clinton because of a few minutes of innocent chit chat she had with President Bill Clinton. Democrats need to do the same with Nunes over his decision to reveal information relating to the Russian investigation to the White House in blatant disregard for protocol. No way should he still be chairing such an important investigation.

  34. 34.

    Major Major Major Major

    Lololol, the headline at Drudge today (I check to see what they’re up to) is just “NEW WEEK”

    @zhena gogolia: I figured that that had something to do with what Cole was trying to get at, given that a one-word link to that story is the sole text of this blog post, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what.

  35. 35.

    Jerzy Russian

    @zhena gogolia: I see. Yes, I guess it sort of makes sense if one thinks about it. Without a free press, democracy will die (although one can wonder if we have a truly free press).

    I am back to being stumped…

  36. 36.

    p.a.

    Democracy Dies in Darkness

    Is the saying changed daily/weekly etc, or is it constant, like All the News…?

    ETA: That is a fantastic photo.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    I can honestly say that in my professional opinion each of his explanations make less sense than the previous ones. I’ve been an authorized classified information courier as part of my job, the argument that this could only be viewed at (one of) the White House SCIFs, but that the White House can’t account for him being on the grounds is exceedingly irregular and doesn’t pass the laugh test.

  45. 45.

    germy

    @Corner Stone:

    looks like a young British boy about to be shipped back out to boarding school for another term. And everyone there hates his father.

    I remember the Obamas used to all walk side by side holding hands.

    The above photo is depressing. I almost feel sorry for them.

  47. 47.

    lollipopguild

    It’s an absolutely amazing thing that the GOP has done to itself. There has been a self selection process that has been going on for years.Smarter/non racist people have self selected out of the GOP. The GOP runs/send people to congress who are for the most part dumber than rocks. Obama being President protected them from themselves for the past 8 years. The GOP voters pick a moran for President.It appears that there are no people left in the GOP who actually know how to do anything in the way of running the country. If they still exist they will be told to shut up and go away. God bless their little hearts!

  52. 52.

    lollipopguild

    @germy: The Obama’s were an actual real live family. Trump has built a fake family like so many of his businesses.

  56. 56.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Adam L Silverman: I dunno, news sites change layout all throughout the day, we aren’t talking about a physical newspaper where it’s a major editorial decision.

    But whatever it is, it sure is ‘real subtle’ if a group of people, after being clued in that something subtle is going on, can’t figure it out. It might even be so subtle that it’s illusory.

    ETA: Although applying the same logic they’re clearly trying to say that Barron Trump is pretending to be black.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    Aerospace shill says “Wha?”

    In his first address to Congress on February 28, President Trump promised to send “a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the Defense [Department budget] sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” Later, in Newport News aboard the Navy’s newest supercarrier, the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, he also promised that “we will have the finest equipment in the world.” These are worthy and overdue objectives; unfortunately, his proposed $603 billion defense budget will not go far enough toward achieving them.

    Chill dude, after eleventy tax cuts we’ll be able to afford all the militaries.

  70. 70.

    sukabi

    @Goku: it’s not that he’s the “best they had”, it’s that he was part and parcel of the Drumpf team. What’s a better way to protect yourself than to have a guy that’s implicated / involved in shenanigans than to have him run the “investigation”?

  71. 71.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @germy:

    The above photo is depressing. I almost feel sorry for them.

    I can’t make up my mind if Trump thinks frowning gives him gravitas or he’s just such a miserable SOB that nothing makes him happy. It’s really noticeable next to Reagan, GH Bush, Clinton, GW Bush and Obama who all look like they had fun being president but I’ve yet to see a picture of Trump were he looks genuinely happy.

  74. 74.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Apparently he lobbied leadership to get on the committee and then pestered Ryan to make him chair. Penetration at all levels.

    Yes. I just read something about that yesterday or today. You are so right–penetration at all levels. At this point it seems like it might be easier to figure out which Republicans are not Russian pawns. Seems like it might be the smaller group.

  75. 75.

    Smiling Mortician

    No editing again. Oh well. Lots of others got there before me on the WaPo slogan.

    Also though, I agree with Adam — I figured John was making a point about about the Nunes White House Mystery Source next to the picture of Trump (and also, right below “Democracy dies in darkness” for effect).

  78. 78.

    Tony J

    Am I missing something? WaPo prints a headline stating Nunes admits meeting his unnamed source on White House grounds right next to a picture of Trump and Lesser Trumps walking on the White House lawn. Hardly subtle.

    They – could – have just said he met his source at the White House, but whoever wrote the headline was aiming for cute by putting it next to that picture.

    Clearly, they’re implying young Baron von Trump is the guilty party.

  80. 80.

    germy

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I can’t make up my mind if Trump thinks frowning gives him gravitas or he’s just such a miserable SOB that nothing makes him happy.

    I can’t remember where I read that durmpf likes the “stern” photos because he’s going for a Winston Churchill image.

    Okay, quick google. Not sure if this is “fake news” or not, but anything’s possible nowadays:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…/President-Trump-frowns-look-like-Winston-Chuirchill.ht...
    5 days ago – Dour Donnie: President Trump staffers claim he scowls and squints in photos because he thinks it makes him look tough ‘like Winston Churchill’ …

  81. 81.

    Attapooch

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Both Trump and his kid Barron exhibit some kind of affect disorder.

    Look the the pictures of them both at the inauguration as well as afterwards and their expressions never, ever match what they ought to be showing. It’s as if they simply just don’t know what they should be feeling and in Barron it displays as bewilderment and in Trump it just seems to make him constantly angry.

  83. 83.

    germy

    “All The News That Fits, We Print”

    (Mad Magazine parody from the 1960s. I don’t know why it stuck in my mind all these years.)

  85. 85.

    Brachiator

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Democrats need to do the same with Nunes over his decision to reveal information relating to the Russian investigation to the White House in blatant disregard for protocol. No way should he still be chairing such an important investigation.

    The Republicans are in the majority, and note that they are doing everything they can to provide cover for Trump and, indirectly, for Nunes.

    Also, Trump supporters are suckers. They still believe that Trump is going to lead them to the promised land.

    Lastly, I still say that the Republicans cynically believe that Koch Brothers money and gerrymandering provides them with some immunity. But you got to wonder, where will the Koch Brothers and the other plutocrats go if Trump and Ryan continue to be so inept?

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    @zhena gogolia:

    Melania’s outfit is nice.

    It’s screaming red! Look at her popped collar and those red gloves. She is daring US IC to put two + two together!

  89. 89.

    Yarrow

    @Major Major Major Major: Maybe. I don’t trust Republican voters anymore either. There are probably a few Republican Members of Congress who aren’t Russian pawns–maybe McCain and Graham?–but the number seems to get smaller every day.

  90. 90.

    Montanareddog

    @Tony J: that was my take too. Headline about Nunes meeting his source in the WH grounds next to a picture of Orangemandias in the WH grounds

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    @liberal: When the time comes we are going to need to walk Trump into an Inception like scenario where he still thinks he’s the POTUS and in the WH. Kind of like what ST:TNG did to Moriarty that one time Data fucked everything up and gave him Holodeck God-like powers.
    Otherwise there is no telling what fucked up and bullshit military adventure he will lash out with when he feels that final cornering.

  93. 93.

    ? Martin

    @germy:

    I almost feel sorry for them.

    Nobody forced them. It’s pretty much the hardest job on earth to accidentally get.

  96. 96.

    Goku

    @Brachiator:

    Lastly, I still say that the Republicans cynically believe that Koch Brothers money and gerrymandering provides them with some immunity. But you got to wonder, where will the Koch Brothers and the other plutocrats go if Trump and Ryan continue to be so inept?

    They can believe that at their own peril. There’s an energy in this country against Pres. Infallible and the Republicans. If they fuck up enough, and odds on that are pretty good, then the Dems and grassroots allies can critically hurt them in 2018 and 2020

  98. 98.

    D58826

    One of the other headlines on that page was ZEGS pledge to continue working to repeal Obamacare. I guess his definition of how a democracy works is different than mine. The doctors, the hospitals, the ins. companies, big Pharama, AARP, and millions of ordinary citizens said leave Obamacare alone. Three million more voters picked Hillary who promised to leave Obamacare alone (well improve on it actually). Yet ZEGS thinks he has a mandate to throw 24 million people off the system simply because he read Ayn Rand as a teenager..

  100. 100.

    Bill Arnold

    @rikyrah:

    Did Kushner just delete all his tweets?

    Provisionally, it appears not. There are old other-people tweets that refer to an empty account.
    Did Jared Kushner Delete His Tweets? His Account Appears To Be Empty

    Indeed, it appears that despite having an account since 2009, Kushner never tweeted in the first place. Going back in time, old Tweets reference Kushner’s barren account. For example, this tweet from 2016 is rather harsh on Kushner for having an old, tweet-free account:

  102. 102.

    D58826

    Over on Huffington –

    White Man Accused Of Fatally Stabbing Black New Yorker Is Charged With Terrorism
    “James Jackson prowled the streets of New York for three days in search of a black person to assassinate,” the D.A. says. When Jackson turned himself in, about 24 hours later, police said, he told officers he came to New York from Baltimore “for the purpose of killing black men.”

    At least on DA can recognize white terrorism when stares him in the face. And the WH has ignored it as usual.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-harris-jackson-terrorism_us_58d97aa0e4b0f805b3227e96?zfzeexq9pqdm42t9&

  103. 103.

    HeleninEire

    @Iowa Old Lady: So glad to see you here. Thank you so much for recommending the Sean Duffy series. I’m loving it (and him!) Almost finished with book 1 and am very much looking forward to the remaining books.

  104. 104.

    sharl

    @Tony J:

    Clearly, they’re implying young Baron von Trump is the guilty party.

    I agree with this. Barron is the only one among that lot capable of working the cipher lock to get into the SCIF.

  105. 105.

    SFAW

    @germy:

    (Mad Magazine parody from the 1960s. I don’t know why it stuck in my mind all these years.)

    Wow, you’re as demented as I am, because that was the first thing came to my mind re: “All the News.”

  106. 106.

    Kay

    @D58826:

    I think they have to pretend to reform healthcare or everyone will know they’re just giving huge tax cuts to rich people.

    I realized “health care reform” is some kind of cover story when it become clear they don’t give a shit about health care, so about middle of last week. That’s why they haven’t talked to anyone in the health care system.

    Obama met with all those “stakeholders” because he was actually reforming health care.

  112. 112.

    rikyrah

    Roger Wilkins, civil rights champion in government and journalism, dies at 85

    By Adam Bernstein March 27 at 4:30 PM

    Roger W. Wilkins, a ranking Justice Department official during the 1960s who later composed Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials about the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post and wrote unsparingly about the conflicts and burdens he experienced as a black man in positions of influence, died March 26 at a nursing home in Kensington, Md. He was 85.

    The cause was complications from dementia, said his daughter Elizabeth Wilkins.

    In a career that traversed law, journalism and education, Mr. Wilkins made matters of race and poverty central to his work as an assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration and later as one of the first black editorial board members at The Post and the New York Times.

    By kinship or friendship, he was linked to many black leaders of the civil rights era. Roy Wilkins, who led the NAACP from 1955 to 1977, was an uncle. In law school, Roger Wilkins was an intern for Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund and later a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

    From a young age, he once wrote, he was compelled to spend his life “blasting through doors that white people didn’t want to open.”

  114. 114.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @zhena gogolia:

    You’ve got it right, I think. Cole is using “real subtle” in a good way this time. The main story on the newspaper page is a straight news story, and Cole’s “Heh” link goes to the accompanying analysis story, which is a huge smoking gun:

    “Devin Nunes is making it very hard for Republicans to claim they can run an impartial investigation on Russia.”

    That’s pretty unsubtle.

  116. 116.

    rikyrah

    uh huh
    uh huh

    Matt Fuller‏Verified account @MEPFuller

    You know who co-sponsored the legislation allowing Internet Service Providers to sell your web history?

    Rand Paul.

  118. 118.

    Applejinx

    @Corner Stone:

    The only thing that’s obvious from this WaPo front page is that it is quite clear Melania is the WH source Nunes met with to review the information in the SCIF.
    She’s been Putin’s inside handler this whole time.

    I’ve been saying this for months now (I use Melania’s proper name, go and see).

    I absolutely agree. And that’s why she’s not underfoot or caught up in all sorts of crazy shenanigans: she’s too valuable. She’s going to try and stay out of danger.

    In some ways I’m kind of rooting for her. Talk about a high score! And she’d be a very capable and smart lady if this is the truth about her. Not that it’s easy to forgive her helping to GET Trump into the damn job… but now the task is to undermine the ‘victorious Republican Party’ at every turn, and to make sure Trump isn’t effective. It’s not like the Trump-kin are meant to become powerful, oh fuck no.

  119. 119.

    Corner Stone

    I just wish this WH could finally get past all this Russia nonsense. It is doing real damage to Ivanka’s initiatives to move forward on rolling out important policies that will benefit moms, and working women. I think once we can finally put the slander about Russian involvement or Trump team ties to Russian agents, the sooner a lot of very deserving and in need women can start to feel the power of Ivanka’s insider advocacy, and women’s issues can rise to the forefront of this admin.
    Maybe this is the issue Democrats can work with the POTUS on? All of the very passionate women’s interests Ivanka has been vocally championing for the last decade or so. She has been an incredibly softening force for equality and pro-women policies so far, I would just like to see her have her full measure of chance to finally enact all the things she has been in the trenches about for all these years.

  120. 120.

    Corner Stone

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Can you tell if Kushner will be testifying under oath?

    No lawyer on earth would allow that to happen. Not for someone who actually is a billionaire.

  122. 122.

    dm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Sounds like it will just be a friendly chat. Kushner volunteered “to help clear things up” about how he arranged meetings with various Administration mucky-mucks and the Russian ambassador.

  126. 126.

    TenguPhule

    Need to Harpoon that Whale.

    $3 million a day for that waste of good carbon to stay in NY.

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    @Corner Stone: Even as snark, its not funny. You need to up your game with some birtherisms from Mrs. Trump

    Also a mention of boobs wouldn’t hurt.

  128. 128.

    Aleta

    This part is so obvious it can’t be the point: “From there, it’s not a stretch for a reasonable person to consider whether Nunes, who served on Trump’s transition team, wants to protect the president. And from there, it’s not a stretch to question the impartiality of the investigation Nunes is leading in the House on Russia meddling in the U.S. election.”

    Maybe the point is that Nunes panicked. Because Tr is in deep, and because he’s been set up to obstruct, knowingly or not. And he didn’t know what the fuck to do.

  129. 129.

    piratedan

    @Frankensteinbeck: to be honest, I want Pence’s scalp too.. he’s sat in on all of this shit from the campaign through the transition. He’s in an incremental way, he’s probably less like to Nuke North Korea for the hell of it.. so there’s that, but he’s just as likely to make A Handmaid’s Tale a model for our society. So while I can see a possibility of a slightly more sane foriegn policy, that’s also coupled with a stronger anti-womens right agenda at home.

    There are no winners here, only losers.

    Still waiting for the IC fallout that Adam (and the sources that Adam is following) to manifest itself and I’m thinking it’s going to be very very fugly and based on the behavior that we’e seen from the WH, the cabinet, and both houses of Congress, there may not be much of a GOP leadership left when the smoke clears.. think we’re ready for a Gohmert administration?

  133. 133.

    dm

    @Aleta: @Aleta: Well, at least he’s smart enough (or dealing with someone smart enough) to want to do it in a SCIF and not over the phone. Just not smart enough not to leave a trail behind him.

    Probably the Russians will want to replace him on the committee, his tradecraft is so self-incriminating.

  134. 134.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    I think they have to pretend to reform healthcare or everyone will know they’re just giving huge tax cuts to rich people.

    I realized “health care reform” is some kind of cover story when it become clear they don’t give a shit about health care, so about middle of last week. That’s why they haven’t talked to anyone in the health care system.

    Say it over and over again.

    Trumpcare was a tax cut bill masquerading as healthcare reform.

    Now, they have to do their evil out in the open.

  135. 135.

    MCA1

    @Baud: I love that idea so much. Sarcastic though you may have intended it, being Baud and all, Schumer and Pelosi should be calling for this and get their caucuses feeding it to the press. “Clearly the Republicans cannot put up anyone for the Intelligence Committee who either knows anything about intelligence or is not up to their neck in kompromat, so…”. If nothing else, lays the table for claims that whoever Ryan might barf up as a replacement is still unacceptable and/or that we cannot proceed without an independent special investigation.

  138. 138.

    different-church-lady

    Democracy Dies in Darkness

    When they first started using that slogan, I couldn’t figure out whether it was a warning or an obituary headline.

  142. 142.

    dm

    @MCA1:

    Schumer and Pelosi should be calling for this and get their caucuses feeding it to the press. “Clearly the Republicans cannot put up anyone for the Intelligence Committee who either knows anything about intelligence or is not up to their neck in kompromat, so…”.

    Sort of like that old story about LBJ wanting to spread rumors about his opponent having carnal relations with pigs, just to hear the opponent deny it.

  144. 144.

    different-church-lady

    So, if I’m following this correctly: Nunes went to the White House to get a planted leak from them, then went BACK to the White House to tell Trump the same thing the White House leaked?

  146. 146.

    Spanky

    @germy:

    President Trump staffers claim he scowls and squints in photos because he thinks it makes him look tough ‘like Winston Churchill’ …

    Mr. Magoo without the gravitas.

  152. 152.

    Aleta

    @lollipopguild: They’ve also selected against people who have the ability to read or write legislation or negotiate compromise. They only have to to be the face on a campaign that’s funded and dictated by professional horseracers, and then agree to legislation that lands on their desk from outside.

  155. 155.

    efgoldman

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    How did this guy get to be the chairman of a committee?

    Because the TeaHadis forced a change for their house caucus from the traditional seniority-based committee assignments and chairmanships, to more or less random rotating assignments.
    As they did with earmarks, by pretending to be more virtuous than thou, they have fucked themselves over in terms of effectiveness.

  161. 161.

    ? Martin

    @different-church-lady:

    So, if I’m following this correctly: Nunes went to the White House to get a planted leak from them, then went BACK to the White House to tell Trump the same thing the White House leaked?

    Well, if you are trying to cover up that the information came from the WH, then publicly briefing the WH would make sense to throw people off of the idea that it came from there.

  166. 166.

    raven

    @Baud: Do you watch “Love” on Netflix? Great episode on shrooms.

    Wait, didn’t this conversation already occur.

  171. 171.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Has Greta Van Susteren’s mouth always been slightly crooked, or is this some cosmetic-surgery mishap? I haven’t watched her in a long time, and I don’t remember this. (But she does look like she has had some work done.)

  179. 179.

    bartkid

    Maybe, I’m overreading the “subtle” part:
    Story one: Nunes admits meeting on White House grounds with source of Trump surveillance documents”.
    Caption to photo: “The first family walks to Marine One on the lawn of the White House”.

  180. 180.

    lollipopguild

    @Aleta: Warmbody/robots/meatpuppets. Then things happen and they are unable to react in an intelligent way.

  181. 181.

    JaneE

    Kind of off topic, but has anyone ever seen a picture of Barron Trump when he looked happy?

  183. 183.

    Humdog

    I am reading John saying that the headline says Nunes met the source on the WH grounds and here is a pic of Trump, the source, on the WH grounds.
    Do I win a prize for translating?

  186. 186.

    rikyrah

    @D58826:

    One of the other headlines on that page was ZEGS pledge to continue working to repeal Obamacare. I guess his definition of how a democracy works is different than mine. The doctors, the hospitals, the ins. companies, big Pharama, AARP, and millions of ordinary citizens said leave Obamacare alone.

    Someone in the Morning thread pointed out that without the tax cut bill known as Trumpcare, the GOP will need 60 votes for their tax cuts.

    THAT is why Trumpcare was so important to them.

  187. 187.

    misterpuff

    @different-church-lady: Info Laundering.
    Nunes being a ventriloquist’s dummy is so slick that WH staff was shooting milk through their noses laughing how they pulled it over the Press.

  189. 189.

    debbie

    Ah, Brits, still the masters of understatement. On my radio just now: “Do you think Donald Trump has the attributes of an autocrat?”

  190. 190.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @JaneE:

    Yes, there were some shots during the Inauguration night parade when he looked happy and like a “normal” kid, watching various floats and things go by the reviewing stand.

    I think he looks miserable in all those “to and from the helicopter” pictures because, like most kids that age, he wants to be invisible to the adult world and he knows that he is the opposite. Who wouldn’t rather be at home playing video games instead of putting on a suit and parading around in some bullshit adult activities?

  191. 191.

    frosty

    @germy:

    Mad Magazine parody from the 1960s

    I always liked that one. Plus the masthead “The usual gang of idiots.”

  192. 192.

    hovercraft

    @rikyrah:

    You know who co-sponsored the legislation allowing Internet Service Providers to sell your web history?

    Rand Paul.

    How is this possible, Paulists are above all lovers of freedom and the biggest privacy advocates. Oh, my bad, just freedom from government, they have no problem with corporations intruding and exploiting us.

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    EBT

    @pluky: His winery does a lot of business with one of Putin’s friends. Nunes is likely the (a) mole, and absolutely at least knee deep in this whole mess.

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    different-church-lady

    @misterpuff: no , I get that the WH wanted to use Nunes as a stooge. The bit I can’t figure out is the part where he goes back to tell them the thing he learned from them in the first place.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @efgoldman: A nice war is one that can be supported from afar without risking one’s own precious ass. In the case of Vietnam, examples include Bush, George W; Cheney, Dick; and Trump, Donald.

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    opiejeanne

    @D58826: I saw an analysis that if the ACA were simply repealed and not replaced it would only throw 23 million people off of health insurance, that the AHCA is actually worse than not replacing the ACA at all.

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