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Republican Trump-sucking dildo rash Rep. Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is trying to shut down the investigation of Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia before it even begins. How do we know this? WELL, we can start with the presser he gave today, where he announced he has new “information” from “sources” that “shows” that the Trump transition team was “under surveillance,” but DON’T WORRY, it was just incidental, and it had NOTHING to do with Russia, so guess that story’s over, YAY! Now, we just need to focus on the OBAMA LEAKERS who “unmasked” the PURE AND INNOCENT Trump team what got tied up in all this nonsense ON ACCIDENT.

Let’s go to the tape:

I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition. Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were wide disseminated in intelligence community reporting. … I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked . … I want to be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities, or of the Trump team.

Hooray, the Trump regime has been found “Not Guilty!” by the one-man jury of Devin Nunes! Politico reports that Nunes got his info from “sources who thought we should know,” and now he has hopped, skipped and jumped to the White House to tell the Trump team about all the fancy things he’s learned about their newfound “innocence.” Press Secretary Sean Spicer was reportedly SO ‘SCITED that he read words from Nunes’s presser during his daily briefing! Hooray! Everybody in the White House gets the Russian pee hooker treatment tonight, allegedly, for “CEEEEEE-LE-BRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!”

Excuse us, if Devin Nunes could pull his heavily lubricated head out of his rectal region, we have a few questions and observations:

Firstly, DO THE RUSSIANS HAVE A PEE HOOKER VIDEO OF DEVIN NUNES? Because this obvious obstruction of what is supposed to be his own investigation sure does suggest he might be compromised in some way too! He was certainly on the Trump transition team, the one what got its communications picked up by oopsie-daisie, as part of an “unrelated” investigation! Did a big Russian scary man corner Nunes in a dark alley and make him promise to be part of the cover-up for his Dear Leader, the orange-faced “president”?

Secondly, what the hell is up with these people that they don’t understand that if they’re CALLING RUSSIAN OFFICIALS ALL THE TIME, and those Russian officials are being recorded, then they are probably going to be recorded? Because if those Russian officials are UNDER SURVEILLANCE, and you are calling them every minute of every day, like pretty much everybody Donald Trump has ever met seems to have been doing, you’re going to get caught up in it! Looking at you, Paul Manafort, Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and hell, probably all the rest of the regime at this point.

Thirdly, we totally get what Nunes is doing here, as we alluded to above. Devin Nunes’s “sources” (probably the Rudy Giuliani wing of the FBI) told him Trump and all his buddies got caught up in “legal, incidental collection” from “another investigation” that had “nothing to do with Russia,” which led to poor innocent Trumpers getting “unmasked” in the “Obama Democrat fraud smear campaign” against Trump, so can we please focus on how Obama unmasked the poor innocent Trumpers? The REAL investigation is about who LEAKED THE WIRE TAPPS, not some silly stuff about how Trump maybe colluded with a foreign enemy to steal the election, and also may still be colluding with that foreign enemy today.

That is what Devin Nunes is doing, that fucking troll.

Just to make sure we are not crazy in our interpretation, let’s check in with our old pal intelligence expert John Schindler, to see what he’s tweeted about this:

Ever heard the old expression, “The cover-up is worse than the crime”?

Also too, has it occurred to you that whatever “information” Nunes is discussing, about signals intelligence (SIGINT) picking up Trumpers discussing “Not Russia,” but only “incidentally,” would probably be HIGHLY CLASSIFIED? Should he be holding pressers about this?

Oh yeah.

Remember that Monday hearing of the House Intelligence Committee, where FBI Director James Comey confirmed for official that the Trump team is definitely under investigation, and that the “wire tapp” thing was a Trump lie? Do you remember the thing we wrote about how utterly fucking USELESS Nunes was, during that hearing conducted by the committee OF WHICH HE IS THE CHAIR? Aside from barely participating, you might remember that pretty much everything Nunes asked in the hearing was set up to undermine the very existence of a counter-intelligence investigation into Trump’s Russia connections.

Here are ways Nunes used the hearing to pour cold water on the investigation before it even started:

  • By suggesting that it’s HILLARY we should really be investigating.
  • By acting like it’s just silly to act like Russians tried to steal the election for Trump, because they never try to win elections for OTHER Republicans.
  • By trying to “disprove” once and for all that Russian meddling had any effect for Trump, since there is no proof voting machines flipped votes.
  • By lying and saying the GOP didn’t even change its platform to give Russia a reacharound.
  • By whining about how it’s UNFAIR that this Trump Russia investigation has put a sad dark Eeyore cloud over the entire Trump administration, which makes Devin Nunes sad also too :(

After the hearing, Nunes told Mother Jones reporter David Corn that he had never even heard of Trump team members known to be targets of the investigation, like Carter Page and Roger Stone. Here’s video of that:

This is, of course, a lie, as strategic analyst Eric Garland points out in this thread (WHICH YOU SHOULD READ). Over at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf notes that Nunes said in early March that he didn’t even want to bring in folks like Page and Stone (or Michael Flynn) for questioning, because (not shitting you) they were listed in a New York Times article, and aw shucks, we can’t just “go on witch hunts against the American people just because their name ends up in a newspaper story, because look, we know this, all newspapers are biased” — most of all the Failing New York Times!

So now, less than 48 hours after the conclusion of Monday’s hearing, we are supposed to believe Nunes has found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, finished the investigation ALL BY HIS-SELF, and cleared the Trump regime of any and all charges. You might be wondering if Nunes mentioned to his partner on the House Intelligence Committee, Democratic ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, that he had found all this exculpating evidence and would be jizz-sploding it all over the place today. Nyet, as they say in the Trump team’s homeland:

Be sure to watch for Adam Schiff on TV for the rest of the day absolutely losing his fucking mind.

Now, we’re sure Devin Nunes will get an extra serving of Snausages from the Trump White House tonight for being such a GOOD AND LOYAL BOY, and when he rolls on his back, he’ll get so many belly scratches his lipstick will pop out and everybody will be like “HEY-O!”

But this shit is not going away. Not by a long shot. Good try, shithead, but literally everybody who’s actually investigating this is better and smarter, and the truth WILL come out.

Take it to the bank, fuckbaby.

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  • monoglot

    Treason. It’s not just for presidents anymore.

  • Persistent Demme

    Squirrel!
    (Not gonna work, Nuney-boy!)

  • OT seems that the Westminster Bridge mass murderer was a Brit who had converted to Islam

    • CatCafe #ShePurrsisted

      But he got hisself one of those funny Ay-rab names, so it’s TERRORISM not at all a “lone wolf.”

      • The reports say he was on watch lists which kind of indicated the watcher cocked up

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Not exactly “mass”.

      • Agreed, I should have put “attempted” in there but the sentiment is better

  • The Dark Knight

    “he announced he has new “information” from “sources” that “shows” that the Trump transition team was “under surveillance”

    Oh, tripped up by Donny’s own words.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/19c9e2e2d50d8989e0495a9df0a651bc2d1e1be9e8368528786da576ca742b82.jpg

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      Hoist by his own retard.

      • TJ Barke

        If only…

      • tkingt

        lol

  • TJ Barke

    Can we outlaw the republican party yet?

    • Suttree

      When can we charge the whole party under the RICO Act?

      • TJ Barke

        2003?

      • Skeptical_thinker

        Given the public statements from the GOP, anytime, anytime at all.

      • Msgr_MΩment

        Even Lincoln? I just learned that he was one of them.

        • BearGHAZI

          Trump said it, so now I’m kind of dubious

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      I want them to face jail time for treason FFS.

  • Jenny

    Hey look at me, forget that huge story about manafort. This motherfucker just found out that “someone” has him and his buddies on tape saying shady shit.

    Fuck off Nunes. I hope you get a windowless room in Gitmo.

  • Shoto

    “But this shit is not going away. Not by a long shot. Good try, shithead, but literally everybody who’s actually investigating this is better and smarter, and the truth WILL come out.”

    Amen, and thank you Jeezuz to that.

    • Woe-be-Gone Daze

      this is what happens when you put a clearly partisan buttboy in charge of a bipartisan committee where you need to put the interest of the american people ahead of your desire to further your own career.

  • memzilla Ω
    • Iron Monkey

      Ryan is telling the truth–he didn’t learn anything new, either because he is incapable of do so or that he knew this stuff all along. Lots of other people (me, for example) learned a lot of stuff.

    • Crystalclear12

      He didn’t learn anything new because he already knew this.

      He just doesn’t care.

  • Iron Monkey

    Trump transition team was overheard but not as a result of surveillance directed at them but against Russian officials that they happened to be talking to.

  • Woe-be-Gone Daze

    I can not believe what i just saw. Where is Schiff, where is Comey. This fucker Nunes needs to be squashed like the bug he is.

  • george gonzalez

    What a moran.

    A whole lot of people know that the NSA listens in on communications with foreign countries. It goes way, way back. It was front-page news when it was revealed almost 99 years ago that the USA was listening in on foreign telegrams. Look up “The Zimmerman telegram”.https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann. It was in all the papers. Anybody with a smidgen of knowledge of what gets listened to would know that you can expect that any phone call or communication that leaves the USA is likely to be recorded someplace. This guy Nunes isn’t telling us anythgin new, it’s just probably intentional misdirection. An moran.

  • memzilla Ω
    • therblig

      OHJB’s wisdom is always impressive and comforting.

    • Ok this is the second best thing I’ve seen this week.

      Imma share it.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Nunes said he is heading to the White House later Wednesday to brief Trump on what he has learned, which he said came from “sources who thought that we should know it.”

    Leaking is OK as long as information is leaked to Republicans now? Thanks for the update!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/db6908d0c782d8293ea4453a6acad753e781c820053a6202ac8d8b9142baf888.jpg

  • ThePuckStopsHere

    When you don’t give a fuck about your own democracy – looking at you 47% turnout – this is the kind of representative government you get. At least the story of how America failed will be easy to teach to future generations. Should there actually be any.

  • memzilla Ω
  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Democratic Rep. David Cicilline knocked Nunes on Twitter for his decision to brief the White House on his findings — noting that Nunes is leading a congressional investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia.

    “Investigators are not supposed to ‘brief’ the folks being investigated,” the Rhode Island congressman said.

    Special. Prosecutor. NOW!

    • Suttree

      And fucking admit it in a presser! Here’s hoping these assholes stay this stupid.

    • Shoto

      I called my Rep this afternoon to register my disgust with drooling moron Nunes, and to demand that an independent, select committee, and special prosecutor be appointed.

      This investigation must be totally independent, and free from any interference from Congress or the WH. Anything less should be concerned a non-starter.

  • whitroth

    Y’know, thee’s this criminal charge called “obstruction of justice”, Mr. None-ies….

    Oh, and if you’re trying to obstruct what could well be a TREASON investigation, that makes *you* a guilty party….

  • Crystalclear12

    The part of Spiro Agnew to be played by Devin Nunes.

    • Wild Cat

      So we get to read a “Mrs. Nunes Diary” monthly?

    • arglebargle

      Nunes the Nattering Nabob.

      • Latverian Diplomat

        I don’t believe in Hell, but if it exists, I think right now William Safire is being forced to listen to Trump try to deliver Safire’s favorite speeches.

        • Wild Cat

          “JewNazi: The First Generation”

          Starring William Safire, Irving Kristol, Roy Cohn, and Roger Stone as “The Beaver.”

  • Skeptical_thinker

    I can’t even!

    Here’s hoping that Nunes is named a co-conspirator when the indictments come down.

    • Ryan Denniston

      Co-conspirators get lined up against the wall too. With votes!

    • Mike Steele

      Our limited funds say he just learned that hiss OWN collusion was ‘unmasked’, ran to Daddy seeking shelter, and was told to go out there and pitch this irrelevant SKWERL! to the ever-eager WH press corps. Trouble is, Donald, much like our microwave, they are all smarter than your team.

  • Michael Smith

    Straws at which mindless supporters may grasp: Check.

  • Ryan Denniston

    Collusion with Russia and constant lies is not a Trump problem. It is not a Trump campaign problem. It is a GOP problem. Hey Rachel (hi Rachel!!!), make schiff your guest for the rest of the week please.

    • yyyaz

      He is very generous in the number of appearances he makes there already, but yes, please.

  • MynameisBlarney
    • WotsAllThisThen

      “Donald Dwarf has the most hit points of any player. Period.” -Sean Sorcerer

  • Marceline

    Nunes has that “I better dump all these drugs down the toilet” flop sweat going on.

  • Martini Ambassador 🍸

    Trump (ok, probably somebody like Bannon, really) say “jump,” and Nunes asks “how high?” But nothing to worry about, just because the leap was pre-telegrammed from the WH, doesn’t mean they are colluding or anything.
    https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/844634750962860033

  • Latverian Diplomat

    “No matter where I stand, I fell like the eyes in that Obama portrait are looking right at me. Surveillance!”
    — Devin Nunes

    • The Dark Knight

      Don’t give Kellyanne any ideas. Microwave transformers was already pushing it.

      • Latverian Diplomat

        You know what they say about transformers…more than meets the eye!

        • Meccalopolis

          Russians in disguise

  • Jenny

    Man, I don’t think I would ever risk my reputation and career to be the fall guy for Trump. That sweet sweet oligarch money is like forbidden fruit!

    • yyyaz

      Or as a corpse is to maggots.

      • Trip Space-Parasite

        This implies that these (maggot libelz!) scum were born into the oligarch money and have never known anything except shoveling it in one end and shitting (where they live) out the other.

        Seems about right.

  • Apple Scruff

    Nunez isn’t even a good troll! He looks like a deer in headlights every time he takes the microphone, like he KNOWS he’ll be caught but he’s still hoping he won’t be.

    • anon_the_great

      It’s the look of A IDIOT lying badly.

      • Apple Scruff

        I think he could be the first one to break.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Well, enjoy it while it lasts, then, son. Carpe urinae prostutam.

  • anon_the_great

    Trump transition team members were unmasked

    Dipshit paste eaters think ‘unmasking’ ‘criminals’ is a bad thing.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      So with their masks off, are they FSB operatives, or lizard people?

      • Mike Steele

        AOT, K.

      • OneYieldRegular

        I don’t know, but I predict investigators are going to find one huge pile of black ski masks and stretched nylon panty hose.

        • Indivisible Snark Tank

          And will those two things be related somehow?

  • Bub the Hoohah! loving Zombie

    If we are lucky, the only American government property that will ever be named for President Donald Trump will be a wing of a federal prison…

    • The Dark Knight
      • wide_stance_hubby

        He told you he was. Period.

      • yyyaz

        Needs to run on every commercial on Faux Nooz for at least a year.

      • Nounverb911

        Since he loses everything, he won last place?

      • JustPixelz (((Ω)))

        You left out “doesn’t pay contractors”, “doesn’t buy American”, “sends resort jobs offshore”, “hires immigrant wives”….

      • Wild Cat

        He controls whether you (or anyone else) lives or not.

        To sociopaths, that’s winning. And he won.

    • Kiri the Paid Protestor

      What about the nuclear waste storage facility?

      • Chemical waste, that cheeto dust must be toxic

        • Bub the Hoohah! loving Zombie

          Two good suggestions…maybe a sewage treatment plant?

  • yyyaz

    I feel much sympathy for Rep. Schiff and the rest of Team USA. If a special prosecutor isn’t named soon …. my sympathies are with the tumbrels.

  • Persistent Tennessee Rain

    Thank you, Joe Isuzu.

  • boyblue122
    • TJ Barke

      Shut the fuck up, Luke Russert.

    • Jenny

      Ok… who took the tape off Russert’s mouth??

      • OneYieldRegular

        It’s one of those trick coffee cups: when you pour in hot water, the tape magically disappears.

    • Everrett Fanuelli

      Go back to farming potatoes, Boy!

    • BigBoppa ~ Résistent

      Oh Luke. If you’re going to talk about your time spent covering politics, at least convert to dog years so it sounds like something impressive.

      • writersbloc

        lawl!

  • btwbfdimho

    If Lincoln was a Republican then everything is possible, so maybe Hillary was born in Moscow. Have you seen her birth certificate, lately?

  • shivaskeeper

    I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but incidental collection is a real thing. It’s what the IC calls collection information on a person or group, when they are looking into a different group. The normal protocal would be to hand the info over the the relevant agency if the one finding the info was not authorized to investigate further.

    As an example, say the CIA was monitoring Russian communications and recorded American citizens in the Trump campaign or transition team talking to the Russians. The Russians are the domain of the CIA, but the American citizens would be an incidental collection and all relevant info would be turned over to the FBI as the CIA would not be able to investigate them further.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      Yeah, this. This is all extremely shady, but we knew that.

    • Persistent Tennessee Rain

      Dusting off some mental cobwebs here, but wasn’t that what the right pissed their collective pants over when Jamie Gorelick wrote a memo regarding the 4th Amendment search and seizure, calling it the “Gorelick Wall” and blaming 9/11 on it?

      • shivaskeeper

        I have no idea.

  • Bill D. Burger

    Prissy Nunes gets his comeuppance.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KmLvhjtMw

  • Martini Ambassador 🍸

    And there’s the attempt to deflect from the Russia story linked to this as well.
    https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/835489207485345793

  • OrdinaryJoe

    The investigator does not meet with the target of the investigation to disclosure information from the investigation. Nunes just made the case that he can not chair an investigation committee and the whole thing needs to be in the hands of law enforcement professionals who understand their legal and ethical obligations.

    • Mike Steele

      Glad I scrolled down, as this was my point. Bad things happen to investigators who are found tipping off the perp.

  • Khavrinen

    “Nunes has found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow”

    Pot of gold, chamber pot, close enough, right?

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Pot of gold, chamberpot.
      Potato, potahto.

    • But rainbows are not entirely yellow

  • The Rain in Spain’s Therapist

    Triggered!

  • Trump is the Batman of Intelligence and Nunes is his Boy Wonder…

    Totally not gay.
    https://media2.giphy.com/media/f1CQcSSJYEBkQ/giphy.gif

    • wide_stance_hubby

      I can’t watch that without grunting out loud.

      • Strepsi

        i could tell that by your screen name

    • The Dark Knight

      Quite frankly sir, as a costumed crime fighter I am highly offended at you comparing me with Donald trump, it’s more like Trump is Joker and Nunes is the Penguin.

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      Oh, please. There’s no way that Robin’s not the bottom in that relationship.

      • Strepsi

        Never seen a skinny hung twink top and a bearish bossy bottom?

        • Indivisible Snark Tank

          Since this isn’t really my scene, I’m gonna say….no. But to us non-G and BLTers, it’s an assumption that the little pretty boyish type is more likely to…

          Y’know, I’ma just STFU now. I have no idea of what I type.

          • Meccalopolis

            Not necessarily

      • MynameisBlarney

        Maybe they’re switch hitters?

    • Msgr_MΩment

      That is not how a reacharound works.

      • wide_stance_hubby

        And is a reacharound really required since what they are doing is only frottage?

      • Trump has some Intel stuck in his craw

  • Crystalclear12

    Bless his heart. He does try.

  • Reximus

    What fucking use is Putin to Trump when he can’t even stop 4 million illegal HRC votes – Devin Nunes, R- Fuckbat, probably

  • Nounverb911

    So will all these guys be in the same prison, or do we have enough prisons out there to separate them?

    • Suttree

      I hear there is a nice tent city in Maricopa county. Stick them all there and make them listen to each other bitch forever.

  • BuzzKill48

    Two days ago, Nunes wanted to investigate and prosecute the leakers. Now he’s quoting the leakers.

    • arglebargle

      Is a pee hooker considered a leaker?

      • Persistent Tennessee Rain

        Just the old ones.

        • arglebargle

          Depends.

      • BuzzKill48

        I’m thinking Nunes will at least be anointed with a golden shower when he presents himself to the Golden One at the -palace- White House.

  • Lefty Frizzell

    They could have got away with all off this easily enough if they weren’t such incompetent sycophants headed by an incompetent braggart.

    I still say it’s down to the conservative world view placing such emphasis on personal ambition at the expense of teamwork. They do not have the organizational inclination or skill to carry out a conspiracy.

    They really are a bunch of witless buffoons.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Satan facepalms, “It’s so hard to get competent henchmen anymore.”

  • Opiwan

    I am 100% stealing “take it to the bank, fuckbaby.”

    Evan is a smith of words. A wordsmith as it may be called.

  • boyblue122

    Nunes trying to obstruct justice. Dont think he gets how the law works

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Ask Al Franken to give him a refesher.

  • AJ Milne

    … in totally unrelated, is OJ still looking for the real killers?

    • Ms.MLG on Maui

      I heard he gets close every time he passes a reflective surface.

    • Latverian Diplomat

      That’s what he keeps telling the parole board, anyway.

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    So if Nunes is Henry Hill and Trump is Tommy then is Putin Irish Jimmy?

    http://25.media.tumblr.com/1c3fcc33daa7cd58818d8f5157558e24/tumblr_mlccnuwF8G1r8tgcmo1_500.gif

    • Latverian Diplomat

      All I know is, Trump’s wigs never come off.

    • schmannity

      Big Pauly.

  • Jenny

    So when do storm the castle?

  • richard Denning

    Nunes says the info was collected under FISA and has nothing to do with Russia. Isn’t FISA used to collect evidence of crimes? So what other crimes besides colluding with a foreign government are the Trumpkins involved in?

    • clairence

      Nunes also said it is/was definitely not just a criminal investigation.

    • boyblue122

      money laundering?

    • Bill D. Burger
    • arglebargle

      AOT,K

    • Nounverb911

      Can Sarah Palin see FISA from her porch too, also?

    • Msgr_MΩment

      He’s confused. It was FIZA with a Z.

    • gamera23

      This is kind of like Trump’s claim that he doesn’t have business with Russia – but doesn’t talk about years of payments from Russian Putin buddies in the USA. “Deniability”

  • Lance Thrustwell

    Never trust anyone named “Devin.”

    (Apologies to any ‘Devins’ in the Wonketariat. Actually, if there are any, I retract the statement.)

    • Wild Cat

      I think M. Scott Peck didn’t trust The Devin either, per Night-Wonkettes.

    • Latverian Diplomat

      “I never trusted Devon.”
      — Cornwall

  • JustPixelz (((Ω)))

    FAKE NEWS (obviously) because “anonymous sources”. Also I read about it on CNN. Also does not blame Obama/Clinton/Soros, so must be FAKE NEWS.

  • mancityRed6

    “This information was legally brought to me by sources who thought we should know it,” Nunes said. There were, he said, “dozens of reports, but no mention of Russia.”

    • gamera23

      Smells like Guliani.

      • mancityRed6

        Ewwwww.

    • Bebecca

      It would be interesting to know who this anonymous source is, would it not?

    • Apple Scruff

      So what he is saying is that they caught Trump talking about things other than Russia?

      THAT’S MADNESS!

  • BrendaKay
    • BrendaKay

      Next time someone asks how I’m feeling about politics… I want to say I feel like I’m under a sad, dark Eeyore cloud.

      • Suttree

        Still an improvement from November.

        • Bebecca

          which for most of us was a suicide watch.

    • JustDon’tSayMicrowave

      Cheer up, dude, it’s almost your birthday!
      http://www.eeyores.org/

  • Is there a pitbull on Nunes’ lipstick?

    No. I don’t wanna know.

    • wide_stance_hubby

      Especially if that’s code for something else.

  • Zonath

    So there was incidental intelligence that was legally obtained which has nothing to do with the thing he’s actually supposed to be investigating, and the dumbshit actually calls a presser over it, and then runs over to the White House to brief the “administration” on his non-findings?

    What the fuck are these people even doing anywhere near the seat of power when they probably can’t even handle a fork without putting themselves at serious risk of bodily injury?

    • SweetDeeKat

      I like to think there is a core of grownups keeping info away from this fuckwit that will just torpedo him.

  • Cousin Itt de La Résistance

    Be sure to watch for Adam Schiff on TV for the rest of the day absolutely losing his fucking mind.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0dfb7a4e2a50b300de398275341d4996f21dec00c5427e97f1e9cb441ed462d3.jpg

  • Sources told him that they picked up intell on the white house?
    And…this is a good thing? In Nune’s mind that is a good thing?
    So much so that he had to run not walk to the white house to go good news guys! They picked up intel on you! It was incidentally as they were getting other intel! Are you not happy? Where is my treat?

    • SayItWithOtters

      “Guys! Guys! It’s only because we keep calling the bloodiest organized-criminals in the world all the time!”

  • schmannity

    But it didn’t involve “Russia.” The Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic Republics, are not part of Russia (yet).

    • TJ Barke

      They’re just full of Russian agents…

  • If this four years ends at some point with a large number of Republicans (including the President and Vice President) getting the perp walk to jail, then I will be okay with it.

    Even still… fuck Jill Stein…

    • Hey, you know who was sitting with Putin and Flynn at the special make Russia Great Again meal?
      HUH. Weird, right?

    • schmannity

      Even still… fuck Jill Stein…

      Not with a tofu dick.

  • clairence

    Does anyone else see echoes of Cheney’s “story in the New York Times”?

    I will suggest (and I’m sure I’m only one of several million people) that Trump himself or someone working in the White House – maybe not even an official government employee (?!?!?) handed this information to Nunes, specifically so he could share it and then take it right back to the White House.

  • CutterTeam

    The Republican Party: The Human Centipede of government

  • Gop screams about leakers who are leaking information to the press.
    HEY GOP!!!! NUNES IS LEAKING STUFF!!!!!

    • Nounverb911

      Santorum?

      • Just about yes

      • AJ Milne

        Ewwwww!!!!

      • WotsAllThisThen

        Hey Nunes, you got Santorum all over my democracy!

        • Srh

          Eww! That’s the kind of shit that causes extreme gastrointestinal problems.

          • Hamilton Ω, AKA Formerly DN

            It’s the shit that’s caused by having extreme gastrointestinal problems, also too.

      • The Dark Knight

        He leaks a mysterious frothy substance.

    • Bill D. Burger
      • Srh

        Lol

      • DerpyGurdyMan

        It’s hard to stop the leaks when you’re juggling Deez Nutz

    • The Dark Knight

      Ha! You actually think they care that they do the things they accuse others of when it benefits them.

    • Everrett Fanuelli

      Yeah, but that’s good leaking like Olestra

  • WotsAllThisThen

    Well at least he didn’t talk to Jeff Sessions on an airplane. Because that really would be a scandal.

  • Woe-be-Gone Daze

    nunes used innuendo to change a bogusburger into a big mac with extra special sauce for newsmax and breitbart and guccifer and every teen in macedonia. what a giant steaming crock of shit we were just served up. seriously, pass the tums.

  • OneYieldRegular

    By “incidental collection of information” Nunes is probably referring to Trump transition people having to answer questions by TSA as they go through airport security, just like the rest of us.

    Anyway, Trump’s ties to Russia per se are rapidly becoming less interesting than his ties to the mob.

    • tsk

      The Russian government and the Russian mob are not necessarily distinct. Who do you think the Russian oligarchs are?

      • OneYieldRegular

        A given, yes.

  • Vecchioivan

    Desperate and stupid.

    • Notreelyhelping

      An attractive combo, eh?

  • OrG

    Ya know, I think this time the crime and the cover-up are equally bad.

  • MeerkatsRMammals
  • elviouslyqueer

    I am going to enjoy the entire fuck out of watching each and every one of these assholes get perp-walked all the way down Pennsylvania Avenue.

    • mancityRed6

      the crowd watching would rival the march after the inauguration

    • MeerkatsRMammals
    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Sometimes, I wish we could bring back some of the old-timey punishments.

      Keel-hauling, for example.

    • weejee

      It will be perp-a-licious.

    • writersbloc

      God I hope so.

    • BearGHAZI

      I’d call for a GoT style walk of atonement, but nobody wants to see those assholes’ privy parts

    • Tacoclamgenda

      I just don’t believe it will happen. I want to believe but I don’t​.

      • Yr. Gma

        I know. It’s too easy to be cynical. I have the same problem sometimes.

      • Meccalopolis

        Pence will pardon them

    • wide_stance_hubby

      Will there be displays of public mockery that may or may not include spitting?

      • dlemex

        They like the good ol’ days… I vote for bringing back stockades.

      • Christopher Story

        I’m bringing rotten tomatoes!

    • YoBunnyBunny

      I’ll attend that De-Inauguration Parade.

  • Nounverb911
    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      It’s almost like they’re in communication!

      • yyyaz

        We have a Post-Law regime in charge.

    • Bub the Hoohah! loving Zombie

      Brazen motherfuckers, aren’t they?

    • MeerkatsRMammals

      It says “were under surveillance…following November’s election” then goes on to say “we’ve been vindicated”? More mental gymnastics courtesy of the RWNJ’s. That’s not really what he said. What he did say was “please throw me in jail now for releasing confidential info”.

    • Hobbes’ Evil Twin

      Because of course, fuckers.

    • dlemex

      They forgot to mention Lincoln… I hear he was a Republican but people don’t know.

  • Bub the Hoohah! loving Zombie

    OT: Secret Service requests another $60 million to protect Trump.

    http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-secret-service-requests-additional-60-million-to-p-1793525116#replies

    If I were an SS agent, I would not take a spitball for the worthless son of a bitch, much less a bullet.

    • BoziSpicer

      Is it possible for a Commander in Chief to be “fragged” by his own bodyguards?

      Not suggesting, just asking.

      • TJ Barke

        It’s not impossible, but I highly doubt it.

      • Yr. Gma

        Yes. I would call such a vote-operator a patriot.

  • lucidamente

    Thread:

    • Bill D. Burger

      He’s indeed muddying the waters of his own investigation.

      • Nounverb911
      • OrG

        It’s almost like he doesn’t want a real investigation.Hmm….wonder why?

      • Nockular cavity

        “I’ll get whoever’s in charge of my investigation if it’s the last thing I do!”

      • Bub the Hoohah! loving Zombie

        He’s CARRYING the water for the White House.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    Variety Headline: Nunes Croons Buffoon’s Tune

  • LarryHoudini

    I’m pretty sure Trump did this for public consumption, but I don’t think it’s the public he should be worrying about now–he’s got pissed off IC people who are going to keep investigating this until he’s out of office or impeached. You think they give a rat’s ass what Nunes says?
    Christ, what an asshole.

  • Nounverb911

    So is this a distraction from tomorrow’s trumpdontcare vote?

    • OrG

      Everything is a distraction from everything else.

      • Nockular cavity

        I keep saying.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      This is all a distraction from Benghazi.

      • JustDon’tSayMicrowave

        *GASP*
        You’re right, I totally forgot about Benghazi! Those wily Demoncrats!

  • Shibusa

    Devin Nunes: Lock Him Up.

    • weejee

      And where to toss the key.

  • HazooToo

    When do we find out about Gorsuch? Whether he’s confirmed or not? And are there ANY Republicans who don’t want him?

  • Bill D. Burger

    Comey, especially, must be livid. It makes it seem as though he was not forthcoming even on items he could deal with openly. He has all the information Nunes has and much, much more and this is truly Nunes throwing shit in Comey’s face.

    Let’s see how Comey takes it.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Every time I’m tempted to feel sorry for Comey, I remember it was his own moral cowardice that put him in this spot. Instead of clamping down, hard, on his rogue New York office during the election he appeased them.

      • OrG

        Among other things.

    • boyblue122

      He probably doesnt get an invite to any more meetings

  • OrdinaryJoe

    I’m betting Uday and Qusay got caught.

    • Nounverb911

      Together?

      • weejee

        In the shower?

      • Incest doesn’t have to heterosexual

        • Chyron HR

          “Is it ever?” – Supernatural fans

  • Bebecca

    Nunes is a smrt one, he’s probably amblin’ for a position in the highly successful Trump administration.

  • cheetojeebus

    I’m pre-visualizing a Sam Pekinpah denouement for this shit.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      I wish we could speed up all this slo mo.

    • Meccalopolis

      Let’s go

    • mailman27

      Pew-pew!!1!! (w/votes, seriously)

  • laughingnome

    Nunes said it was all legally collected with FISA warrants so it’s more apparent that members of Trump’s team are or were dealing with foreign nationals who were being investigated with probable cause of a crime. This is not good news for Trump but they are trying to shade it as good news for Trump. Won’t work in the long run.

  • calliecallie

    I love it when Evan gets mad about a thing.

    • Meccalopolis

      Hey-yo!

      Made my day

  • Bill D. Burger

    It was all smoke & mirrors and obfuscation. Nunes said nothing new. Hinted at ‘possible’ irregularities, ‘maybe’ illegal….blah, blah, blah. It’s pure Covering His Ass and trying to give Drumpf some cover as well. Now we have Cheetolini saying, after his meeting with Nunes, he feels “….somewhat vindicated.” And NOTHING is revealed to the public. It’s all horseshit. And the person who has been smeared above all with it is Director Comey, who is privy to all the info that Nunes has and much, much more. He has to be seething over this bizarre ‘run to the White House’ and impromptu presser Nunes had.
    His reaction to Nunes should be interesting.

    • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

      Not only that- it’s a fcuking investigation. You don’t dribble out information like some 80 year old RWNJ with a bad prostate. There’s something going on here. There has to be.

      • Lamashtar

        When the investigator goes to the investigated, its obstruction.

        • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

          Years ago, I knew an employee who was arrested for taking a file home at a critical time, She didn’t destroy it she temporarily removed it- and her supervisor told her to. That was enough to get her charged with obstruction.

          • msanthrope

            It’s Fawn Hall and Ollie North all over again!

  • MeerkatsRMammals
  • Notreelyhelping

    This time, the calls really were coming from inside the House.

  • tsk

    The Russians must have some serious kompromat on Nunes, considering that by so obviously trying to derail the investigation and cover for the Trump team, he is attaching himself pretty darn tightly to the Trumptanic just as it is obviously taking on water! The Russians would undoubtedly have hacked the RNC and top Republican honchos, too, not just the Democrats, but the compromising GOP stuff was never expsoed. I bet it is being held over their heads to make sure they behave.

  • TJ Barke
    • The Wanderer

      BWAHAHAHAHA!

    • OrG

      See new thread

  • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

    “I recently confirmed squirell on numerous occasions the squirrel community incidentally collected squirrel about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition squirrel.”

    FTFY

  • Msgr_MΩment
  • For the record, let me say fuck Disney for turning Pooh into shit.
    In the original story there was no “cloud.” Eeyore was just a rightfully downcast little donkey surrounded by white snowflakes. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac0ebec15656805bc3e3fbac374fa9343ee4b4e0c9982c2c63d32af681fe73bd.jpg

  • pussygrabber in chief

    That fucker is my representative, and probably will be until the end of time. I live in one of those angry-rash red parts of California.

    • Yr. Gma

      How sad for you.

      • JoeChristmas

        How sad for us.

    • JoeChristmas

      I made a comment above about his “safe” seat. Is it really that bad there? I guess it’s like me going to family functions, I gave up a long time ago.

  • Hairstrike Alpha

    I repeat from yesterday: Nunes is everything I imagine a Trump supporting rep to be. He’s a delusional liar who presents Donnie as this good, honest man and that all the Russia controversy amounts to a mean political smear orchestrated by Democrats and the deep state. Also within this fantasy himself, Trump and Steve Bannon hunt witches and slay DRAGONS.

  • yyyaz

    Goddamnit, CNN. I was just watching coverage from London, when they stuck Nunes in front of the camera. I immediately hit “mute.” That was 10 minutes ago and he is still fouling my space with his utter incompetence. I’m just going to look up occasionally to see how long they fellate him.
    ETA: 16 fucking full minutes of douchetard’s face with no breaks. Assholish Vichy News.

  • Mavenmaven

    Shorter Nunes: must catch moose and squirrel

  • Jgb979

    It reminds me of that time Halderman gave that famous press conference where he was like “guys guys guys……….relaaaaaax” and everyone immediately stopped investigating Watergate until the end of time.

  • Pierre_de_Fermat

    Schindler:

    That's a nice TS/SCI/SAP fact right there, folks.Straight from the HPSCI chair.We're officially in Crazytown.https://t.co/cS4YF8KUfP— John Schindler (@20committee) March 22, 2017

    If we are still a republic of laws, Nunes must be removed from HPSCI, stripped of clearances & prosecuted for this.https://t.co/HIMD9hH2Ss— John Schindler (@20committee) March 22, 2017

    We are now just one diligent special prosecutor away from a whole bunch of Republicans getting indicted for major crimes over #TrumpRussia.— John Schindler (@20committee) March 22, 2017

    If DC #GOP follows the lead of Nunes & his cynical, illegal stunt today, you can forget about any good-faith Hill inquiry into #TrumpRussia.— John Schindler (@20committee) March 22, 2017

    • yyyaz

      1. Crazytown, yes.
      2. Republic of laws, not anymore.
      3. A Special Prosecutor away from indictments, yes.
      4. Yes, we can all fuggedaboutit. See No. 3, which I will not believe until it happens.

      • Pierre_de_Fermat

        Once DT has served his purpose, this can be used either to get him to go along with more cr@p or dispense with him and put the more pliant Pence “in charge”.

  • NellCote71

    MSNBC host were like all WTF? What was that all about? They literally could not parse what Nunes said.

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    Nothing to see here, Folks. Doesn’t involve Messicans or Mooslums!

  • Apple Scruff

    So Nunes said there was incidental stuff found that didn’t involve Russia so nothing to see here?

    Then what is the point of calling a presser? Did they find something else just as bad and he is just trying to cover their asses before the story breaks? Are there pee hookers involved? An ‘n-bomb’ or two?

  • janecita

    Shouldn’t Nunes just concentrate in what he does best? Trying to make us spend shit loads of money in The Azores?

  • Mr. Blobfish

    He can shut down the House investigation, and the Senate investigation may be just the as useless. The spooks will leak to the press. There is only so many times you can yell “fake news”.

    • Crank Tango

      Yeah this is all fun and games until the tapes come out.

      • Yr. Gma

        That’s what Nixon said.

      • mailman27

        You mean pee hookers?

  • Bill D. Burger

    Rep. Speier of CA just ( as I heard 2 other pundits refer to it) called Nunes’ little visit to the WH as a ‘…weapon on mass distraction.’ And she said this is a clear indication that this investigation should be taken up by an independent committee because Nunes has demonstrated a rather strange lack of protocol in going far afield, giving out suggestions and no evidence and has lost credibility and shown a lack of good judgement in taking this action.
    He has created a troubling cloud over his own committee.

    Time to move it to a real independent committee…ASAP.

    • Mr. Blobfish

      Paul Ryan? Make me laugh.

      • Lamashtar

        If he doesn’t treat the investigation seriously, the leaks will get worse and the press will eat them. By staying on top of it, the GOP can maintain spin control.

      • Mike Steele

        Nunes was thoughtful enough to share his little leak with Ryan, as well as Trump. Ryan, apparently, was stupid/arrogant enough to let him. IMHO, knowingly receiving leaked classified info is problematic, RIGHT (R)s?

  • carpaov

    what a disgrace he is

    • sgt. jmk of the résistance

      What a disgrace they ALL are.

  • Srh

    Nunes reminds me of manafort – he’s slimy and smarmy wih a nasty, polished Russian look. Can’t stand that POS. He’s just another swamp creature in the trump pond scum.

    • mailman27

      He’s reminiscent of the guy with the “Miracle Spring Water.”

  • Paperless Tiger

    Why do they keep using that term ‘unmasked’ to try and persuade us that these crooks is innocent. It sounds kind of, you know, suspicious. Like, what’s with the mask, Comrade Zorro?

    • JustDon’tSayMicrowave

      ups for “Comrade Zorro”

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Ok. It doesn’t involve Russia. Does it involve China? Any of the Becky-Stan-Stan-stan countries? Trump Tower Tehran?

    • JustDon’tSayMicrowave

      Russia the entity, Russia the person, or Russia the corporation?

      • Bill D. Burger

        ….or Russia the riddle, Russia the mystery, or Russia the enigma.

    • Mike Steele

      NY AG also investigating Trump, who seems to have some fanboys in NYC office. Perhaps this item was from a garden-variety corruption investigation… Dog knows, Cheeto deserves all the attention they give him.

  • WotsAllThisThen

    I’m sure Nunes just wanted to inform us, out of an abundance of caution, that more of Hillary’s emails may or may not be in Trump’s secret communications with Russian intelligence agents.

    • Crank Tango

      At the very least, there may be several Weinerpics.

      • Yr. Gma

        And possibly some risotto recipes.

    • NellCote71

      The obviously leads straight to the killing of Vince Foster and the body transported to Benghazi through a tunnel under a pizza parlor.

  • DerpyGurdyMan

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  • Thaumaturgist

    The day after he learns there is a national security and/or criminal investigation of members of the Trump transition team, this guy takes (some?) of what he knows straight to the targets of this investigation? Does he think the investigators are going to tell him anything else ever again? BTW, is this a federal offense?

    • Hemp Dogbane

      The Obamatapp will pick that up.

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      Schindler seems to think so (which is not an affirmation), and it is hard to see how this does Nunes any good, but would DOJ prosecute? Some Wonkers will be far more familiar with security clearances and the laws around them, so will have more (better) to say than I do.

    • cmd resistor

      Some ex-House Intel Counsel guy went on the TV and said this was pretty damned shitty (in nicer language). http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/22/1646189/-Ex-House-Intel-Counsel-says-Rep-Nunes-tipping-off-Trump-is-breakdown-in-entire-oversight-process

      • AJ Milne

        Re ‘Nunes must recuse himself…’

        Yep.

        This guy in an oversight role is the inmates running the asylum.

        • cmd resistor

          From the first minute I heard him say anything I have not liked this guy.

  • DainBramage

    I’m reminded of what Littlefinger said to Sansa Stark, “Look around you, we’re all liars here, and every one of us is better than you.” Nunes better up his game.

  • BMW

    I am not sure how reliable what Nunes said was because Nunes didn’t say anything that made sense in a convwntional way. Can anyone translate his statement to regular English? Or at least explain how it supposedly exonnerates Trump?

  • DerpyGurdyMan

    Mr. De-Veined NoNads really wants to save @PEETUS McTweetSack but that ship is going down in flames

  • Jennifer R

    No mention of Nunes being in business with poots?

  • SayItWithOtters

    Isn’t he actually a dairy farmer? Dude is in way over his head.

    • DerpyGurdyMan

      I think he mostly produces Smegma on his dick-milking farm.

    • Rags

      In manure.

  • RobKanC

    What happened today was a grave injustice. When the intelligence committee chairman find incidental collection of data collected legally when investigating a foreign power means that Trump has been in contact with the Russians. This is straight up treason, not even hyperboling here.. Of course, the repubs have no spine, the dems have no power. I can only hope that the deleted Hillary emails were totally worth this.

    • mailman27

      They weren’t.

      • RobKanC

        Whoa dude!!! Spoiler Alert

  • pstockholm

    “… about signals intelligence (SIGINT) … ”
    I love it when Evan talks dirty.

  • UnsaltedSinner

    Thanks to Nunes, I can now see that this is really all about ethics in journalism.

  • JoeChristmas

    C’mon California. Get rid of his “safe” seat so that when he SITS. THE FUCK. DOWN. he flops on his traitorous ass.

    • Yr. Gma

      We’re working on it.

    • Kym In A Can

      Central Valley is a mostly agricultural Republican stronghold and has been for a long time. It’s going to be very tough to flip the seat; his district had one of the highest margins of pro-Trump voting in the whole state. I keep seeing Central Valley/OC House Repubs on Topher Spiro’s tweets of lists to target and it’s making me nervous on the verge of terrified. I’m very concerned these people don’t actually understand California. He called Walters “moderate” today! If this is what pundits pass off as knowledge of CA we aren’t going to stand a chance. I’m in my local Indivisible, making calls, encouraging others, but to flip these seats blue is going to take, in my eyes, an unfathomably large swell. And I don’t trust the Presidential election results as a measure for loyalty to party. The second a handsome Republican walks by who says what they want to hear they will be with the GOP, imo.

      • JoeChristmas

        I hear you. Thanks for that. But, and it’s a long shot but, we’ve got this Kathie Allen already stirring up Chafeass.

  • ~ ☆ míkhαílα ☆ ~ 【忠実反抗】

    Yeesss…all the bits are falling into place now…

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c171425d58f466152935f98b1f7148e7839024f5ec82a59976c4d2685119d091.gif

    (Special prosecutor nao please!)

  • boyblue122
    • Christopher Story

      I hate when that happens.

  • Srh

    – Ever since the cheeto manbaby took his skank CONaway and entourage to the WH, we’ve been like an unwilling audience forced to watch a really bad reality show. Have we had even one freaking week without a scandal tied to Russia!? This is a nightmare that just keeps growing and we have that slimeball nunes and other rethugs running their mouths with lies and deflection. This is beyond anything our country has ever witnessed. How many freaking coincidences are we supposed to believe?! WTF! Please! Somebody make this shit stop for the love of God!!

    • JoeChristmas

      Well, it’s at least it’s as bad as I thought it would be year ago if someone from the clown car got into the WH. At least they haven’t turned over roe v Wade…yet.

      • C4TWOMAN

        The one saving grace of this perpetual dumpster fire is they’re so incompetent they’ll be lucky to do any long term legislative damage between now and when they’re impeached/imprisoned for treason/resign in disgrace/flee the country.

        But we’ll have to watch what’s left of the GOP that comes after them. Hopefully, they’ll be so scared silly, they’ll go very cautiously as they try to rebuild their reputations. Because, thanks to the Alt-right and members of their own party, they will have proved they were a greater threat to democracy than “illegals” or homosexuals or whatever the scapegoat du jour is..

        • JoeChristmas

          IDK, one thing about these scumfucks is their patience and shamelessness. They seem to be immune from being discredited. Look how they recovered after Nixon, or IranContra, or Gingrich or Cheney, or…They will always have that 23% and they always have the cash. Cutting taxes on the rich goes a long, destructive way.
          I’m afraid the oligarchical fascist state is getting quite a foothold. Not ONE of those Un-American GOP cowards will stand up for what is right.

  • Martin L

    Nunez is too busy sucking up to Trump to do his job.

    • Carpe Vagenda

      Maybe. Or maybe when the russians were hacking the RNC and looking into the activities of american politicians they paid particular attention to the head of the House Intelligence Committee, who may or may not already have been sympathetic to their cause.

  • DerpyGurdyMan

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  • Roni Raven, Just Microwavin’

    Transcript, for anyone who would like some word salad for lunch.

    http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/22/cnr.07.html

  • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

    So I’m invoking the “fear for my life” defense for the nation. “Congress, I was in fear for the life of my democracy, so I had to kill the Russian Puppet’s administration!” Seems to work for police when they kill people so it should work for us, right?

    • Me not sure

      You seem to forget that Trump’s not black.

      • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

        Dammit! You are correct. I knew it couldn’t be that easy.

        • Me not sure

          I’m colorblind, so not that easy.

      • Christopher Story

        Yes, but if we can prove he’s mentally ill, then he stops being white.

        • Me not sure

          Oddly enough, I think that I get that.

    • Chris

      But only with votes… that’s the ticket!

  • Amelia

    Glad I’m one among many who saw this in the news and immediately wished for him to take a long walk off a short cliff.

    With votes, obviously.

  • Roni Raven, Just Microwavin’
    • boyblue122

      independent commission…Drumpf not going to like the sound of that

  • Roni Raven, Just Microwavin’
  • Bill D. Burger

    Love it. Adam Schiff on CNN opened with a bitch slap of Nunes: “The chairman needs to decide if he is the chair of an independent investigative committee or an agent of the White House. His actions have thrown that all into doubt.”

    • BoatOfVelociraptors

      Somebody’s losing their Schiff!

    • OrdinaryJoe

      He has his Schiff together.

  • Manhattan123

    If by “incidentally” you mean they were caught speaking with Russian agents who are routinely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies, then sure, that’s exactly what happened. Why does this fuckwit think this somehow exculpates the Trump people from their treason?

    • Roni Raven, Just Microwavin’

      Because fuckwit?

    • NellCote71

      Because he is dumber than a sack of hammers and slimier than deer guts on a doorknob.

  • snark-lurker

    “–his lipstick pops out…”?!
    That there is i keeper.

  • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

    So the lead of a Congressional investigation ran to one of the subjects of an investigation to inform the subject of the results of part of the investigation before the investigation was completed AND before informing the other investigators? Is that legal, because it sure the fuck isn’t ethical…yeah, yeah, IOKIYAR. I’m with Callyson, special prosecutor, now!

  • ⚡️ I Am Helpy ⚡️
    • whitroth

      Wait a minute – his “net worth” is significantly less than his Congressional salary?

      I’m having a *lot* of trouble with that….

      • AJ Milne

        Yeah… Math really not working, there.

      • ⚡️ I Am Helpy ⚡️

        You are not the only one!

    • DerpyGurdyMan

      Alpha & Omega Wine LLC

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      • Big Shoulders

        Would those be the grapes of (our) WRATH??!!

        • DerpyGurdyMan

          Would that they were, and that Nunes drain them to the very dregs of doom.

    • Notreelyhelping

      Ow!

  • mailman27

    I, for one, give my approval to one Barack Obama to COME TOTALLY UNGLUED and come after these motherfuckers who insist on accusing him of felonies. Obama v. Mental Midgets.

    • Edith Prickly

      Except Obama won’t ever do that. He will unleash the Biden, who is totally out of fucks and loves a fight.

      • C4TWOMAN

        NOT THE BIDEN!

        • Ill-Advised

          The Biden, the whole Biden, and nothing but the Biden (and his hordes).

          Make it so…

  • azeyote

    yesterday he wanted those that leak to get prosecuted – well he just leaked like a true ruskie pee hooker all over the media – so lock him up already –

  • Edith Prickly

    So is Devin Nunes about to steal Louis Gohmert’s title of Stupidest Motherfucker in the House, or should he get his own? Most Egregious Trumpwhore? Balls-Licker in Waiting to Lord Dampnut? Write your own title here?

    • DerpyGurdyMan

      Chair Dancer of the WhoreHouse Ignorance Committee

    • Thaumaturgist

      I don’t see how you can pass this off as stupidity. It has the odor of a deliberate attempt to interfere with a federal criminal investigation in order to protect the suspects and frustrate the course of justice.

      • HogeyeGrex

        So… Being A Republican?

    • leemoder

      Game Show Host’s Sidekick.

  • DerpyGurdyMan
  • Carpe Vagenda

    But Devin Nunes categorically cleared Flynn hours before it became clear that not only was Flynn completely guilty but Nunes knew it. Didn’t we already know he was complicit and corrupt?

  • OrdinaryJoe

    Nunes has to go. No more terms, no more terms.

  • bluicebank

    I don’t know. Seems that boiled down, Nunes’ statement hardly exonerates Trump.
    Nunes says that Trump & Co. got caught up in FBI surveillance not because they were talking to the rooskies, but talking to some other evil fuckers the FBI had a hard-on for.

    Okaaay. So the defense strategy is equivalent to saying their client isn’t guilty of killing a guy for owing him money, since “my client merely killed the guy for cutting him off in traffic.”

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      What he said makes less and less sense the more you look at it, the more you break it down.

  • Thiazin Red

    Wait, does this mean he admitted that there is another unrelated criminal investigation of the Trump campaign?

    • bluicebank

      Either that, or both. Some Trumpists were caught up because giving hand jobs to commies, and some were caught up because hanging with American-born mobsters.

    • Time for Nunes to seek the nearest fallout shelter.

    • HogeyeGrex

      Hey. It’s kind of unfair to ask these guys to keep track of which flagrantly illegal treason their being investigated for.

  • JackieHarkness

    And with the words “Trump-sucking dildo rash” I know that Evan is in da house, and I am home safe and sound.

  • jesuswasablack

    This seems highly improper if not illegal, but I must admit it is a brilliant political move. Nunes gives der-Trump just enough wiggle-room so that FAUX and all of the right wing echo chamber can quell the nervousness of the low-info trumpsters, I think they were starting to turn on Trump everyone sees the 37% and dropping approval ratings. It also provides the slightest bit of breathing room for “so call conservatives” to get on board with Trump care. Nunes should probably be charged with leaking classified information but who’s gonna charge him, this guy?
    http://www.motherjones.com/files/ap_16245490445160.jpg

    • phoenix00

      So bloody true. Foxes guarding henhouses……

  • canes_pugnaces

    So let’s get this straight: Nunes whose speciality is cow raisin’, briefs the target of an investigation. Even stupid people, of which there are many in the GOP (mostly?), know that’s not only idiotic, it’s illegal. And the GOP, even from their parallel universe, must see that’s a problem? Oh never mind.

    • HooverVilles

      This just makes the phrase, IOKIYAR even moar blindingly obvious that it already is.
      Sigh!

    • leemoder

      Like these numbnuts never watched Law & Order…

  • Lamashtar

    Schiff told MSNBC that he’s seen evidence that is not circumstantial of collusion. McCain on Greta threw cold water on that, saying he hasn’t seen any and its “both sides do it” basically. Then he said it discredits Congress as an investigative body so we need a select committee or special commission. Then Susteren complained how much money that would cost.

    Benghazi.

    • HooverVilles

      That’s noun verb Benghazi.

  • Chris

    Could we just stop calling this the 114th Congress and label it the Depends congress? Leakers, leakers, everywhere, pee video for only one. Is it true “there can be only one”?

  • miss_grundy

    It appears that Tangerini Cheetolini WannaBe Mussolini had a Russian gangster godfather living in Trump Tower three floors below him who was being monitored by the FBI for two years until 2013. I wonder how much $$$$ he gave Cheetolini so he could “wet his beak”.

  • Chris

    Confused. Nunes said no Russians involved. Does this mean Trump and company were colluding with others? Don’t tell Ivan…

    • Pilotshark

      maybe China? :-)

      • Chris

        That’s my best guess as well.

  • Scooby

    Why would Russia help Trump when it’s China that’s been the biggest beneficiary of the Trump presidency?

    • Amy!

      I know, right?!?!!!

      If I were Putin, I’d be demanding my money back!!

      • Scooby

        No refunds without the receipt!

        • Amy!

          Unfair!! Terrible! BAD!!!1!

          Next they’ll be wanting <loathing>tax returns!</loathing>

        • Jerry Noneofyourbizz

          Manafort has it in drawer somewhere.

    • ziggywiggy

      I think it’s more they wanted to fuck with all of America and what better way to do that than help trump become President and Putin could also fuck over Clinton at the same time. It was not just about $$$, it was personal towards Clinton and it seems Putin just likes screwing with other countries, the man is a cold-hearted lunatic.

      • Jerry Noneofyourbizz

        Hillary is one smart, tough bitch and Putin was shitting his pants at the thought of her as POTUS.

    • Greyhame

      Just wait until good old boy, Rex Tillerson, helps get the Crimea oil pumping deal back on track (between naps and golf rounds at Mar-a-Lago, of course).

    • Jerry Noneofyourbizz

      I still say the Russian connection has to do with oil. Russia has a stranglehold on the natural gas supply to Europe. That’s what Syria is all about. Putin does not want that pipeline going through there to Europe…the same reason we went to Afghanistan was a pipeline. It’s said that Russia has one of the world’s largest oil reserves. But it’s in Siberia and under a ton of permafrost. When the CEO of Exxon is appointed to SoS it definitely has to do with oil.

      • DustBowlBlues

        Years ago, I read a book lots of big words. It was “American Theocracy” by Kevin Phillips. I’m going to grab it off the shelf and see if I remember correctly: it’s always been about oil.

    • phoenix00

      There’s also no question Russia stands to benefit too. See: Ukraine, and the economic sanctions that the US is poised to lift.

  • Louise Johnson

    I know the term “groupie” is sexist and old fashioned.

    So I won’t use the term “groupie”.

    I’ll just stick with “asshole”.

    And I’ll just stick with everything Evan Hurst said too!

  • efoveks

    Devin Nunes, Concern Troll.

  • John Lo

    I rarely disagree with Wonkette, but this time I do. Nunes, and the other idiots in the House and Senate who were sick the day separation of powers was taught in middle school, need to keep this up, not “sit down.” Sooner or later, after they’ve fucked their base with the lame AHCA, and trotted out massive tax breaks for the wealthy, their supporters may awake from the Republican, Insane Donald induced coma and vote these douche-wads back to whatever they were doing before, like luring children to motel rooms for sex.

    • Sparger

      Their core base will never wake up. You should read some of his supporters nonsense. They seem to think Nunes remarks mean Obama is a criminal and is going to jail.

  • Susan Szews

    Maybe because I’m still relatively new at caring this deeply about politics is: why doesn’t this Nunes fellow see the writing on the wall by now, right? I mean, he’s seen *some* classified material – not as much as the Senate committee, but enough, I’m gathering? So he has to know that, as people say, there is a THERE, there. And even if he’s tangentially guilty, or let’s go whole hog and say he’s a lot guilty and got skin in the game with some oil money or grifting or whatever. Surely he can’t be AS guilty as Manafort or that Carter Page or, ew, Roger Stone.

    So why did he throw himself under the bus today with this press conference? I cannot comprehend it. He has got to see the Trump administration going tits up, right? He’s got to see the writing on the wall. Why wouldn’t he walk away from that and walk towards Pence / Ryan?

    Unless he’s afraid of a Russian-style self-inflicted heart attack, but so far those haven’t happened to any Americans? I’ve got nothing.

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      We think the DT administration is going to go under like the Titanic. I don’t believe the GOP leadership is seeing that. Yet. I think they thought they would have time before being hit with a full-blown constitutional crisis.

  • Mike Steele

    Anyone downstream wonder aloud why Nunes shared this leaked, confidential info with Paul fuckin’ Ryan who, by law, should have sent him packing? Haven’t heard that mentioned much on MSM; of course, there’s still hope… Rachel @ 9EDT.

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      Well, since everything about this is like some weird spy novel …
      Suppose Nunez was actually delivering a message from GOP Congressional leadership: “Dorothy, surrender or die” …

      Nah …
      Schindler:
      //twitter.com/20committee/status/844672987173392385

      and:
      //twitter.com/20committee/status/844701463049895936

      • Mike Steele

        From your mouth to dog’s ears:)

  • BreakingDeadMen

    What is the honorable course for Rep. Nunes? Certainly to recuse himself from further investigation, that’s a minimum. Probably to resign from the committee altogether. Actually, I think resigning his seat is not out of the question. Seppuku is possibly a bridge too far, but if it were me I would have it on the table.

    • leemoder

      A nice scourging may be in order.

    • Jeffery Campbell
      • BreakingDeadMen

        Ooh, do you think Melania has seen Lucia Di Lammermoor?

  • Greyhame

    It’s infuriating (yet inevitable) that someone who was part of the very transition team under investigation … is now the fucking chair of the committee in charge of investigating the transition team’s shady dealings.

    How surprising he would see no evidence of wrongdoing, unless you are a filthy whistleblower shedding light on the whole debacle where a traveling circus of a shitty reality show was (allegedly) agreeing to give reach-arounds to a hostile foreign government in exchange for sabotaging the election – ok brb, have to scream into some kind of soundproof container for the next 5 to 10 minutes.

  • CripesAmighty

    Best quote so far–from Matt Miller, née DOJ: “He just stepped on front of the microphones in front of the White House, doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire.”

    • Reality Kills

      Good analogy but Tibetans did literately that during the Vietnam War. It is frightening to see.

  • Panika MCD

    maybe they weren’t caught on tapes with the Russians. maybe they were calling Anthony Weiner’s penis top and were all, “whoops! sorry, Carlos Danger. getting a call from the Poots on my burner! gotta go!”

    because it would be nice if they got screwed by that one.

  • Nasty Candy Apple

    I love it when Rachel uses nerdlicious words like “spox.”

  • Persistent Tennessee Rain

    Npr reported on Nunes giving information to the White House and completely failed to note the impropriety of his actions. We are doomed.

    • Lefty Wright

      I have not been very impressed by NPR reporting for the last year. I heard another blurb on NPR today with Walter Jones, a congressman from NC, where he claimed as a fact that the ACA was imploding and would collapse in the next few years. There was no pushback from the person handling the interview showing the CBO had no such forecast. NPR also seems to be enamored with Sebastian Gorka, one of the smuggest and slimiest talking heads for Trump. They have been as serious about honest and accurate reporting as Fox has when it comes to Republican lies. In other words, anything goes.

      • Persistent Tennessee Rain

        Yep. Heard that, too. I was yelling at my radio for someone to fact check him!

      • Themostunclean

        The last straw for me is when they said they refuse to accuse tRump of lying because that would “imply he knows what he’s saying is a lie”.

        So then either he’s lying or severely mentally disturbed. Great.

        They get funding from the federal government which is in peril of being slashed to nothing. Obviously someone over there is terrified because before the election they had no problem laying into tRump before the election.

        If you want real independent politics news, go to TYT. They absolutely kick NPRs ass in terms of pledges and don’t have to take a dime from the government and aren’t beholden to corporate sponsors.

  • BreakingDeadMen

    Nunes did this public part as cover for the Trump part. He felt he had to tell Trump, but realized how bad it looks if he doesn’t disclose that. Guess what: it still looks bad.

  • ziggywiggy

    I’m wondering if they will call it The Trump Wing or just T Block at the nearest federal prison.

  • CATMAN

    I wonder how much laundered Russian money is headed Devin’s way courtesy of the Paul Manafort and Carter Page laundromat

    • “M”

      Only if he gets away with it.

  • xbutter

    Whenever he visits New York, Nunes can now stay for free in a luxury apartment in Trump’s Torpid Tower of Treasonous Treachery.

  • Jeff Mc Donald

    See, you are coming very close to accusing one of Trumps bestest congressional buddies of telling half truths to take the heat off of an investigation. I, however, will come right out and say that is not the case. He’s a lying liar pants telling lies for another lying liar pants. Also, we now know that the White House has a mole in the investigation…and he’s running it.

  • Daughter of Crazy Cat Lady

    *My first post. I’ve been reading Wonkette comments for months in lieu of expensive psychiatric therapy.*

    Am I wrong to suspect that Preet Bharara’s investigation(s) into tRump has something to do with Adam Schiff’s claim today to Chuck Todd that there is more than circumstantial evidence??

    • vivian

      In this environment you are not wrong to suspect anything and/or everything.
      We’s in Denmark and the fish is well past 3 days old.

      • Daughter of Crazy Cat Lady

        I keep hoping that I’ll wake up tomorrow to see the headline “It Was All A Bad, Sick Joke”, but I’m still living my worst nightmare.

    • “M”
  • Humblehollow

    It’s just about lock him up time aintit? No way no how Trump associates were doing this stuff without his blessing, a golden shower of blessings to have Russia interfering for him because a narcissistic loser like Trump could never believe in himself enough to win without outrageous help. See now why he needs the roaring crowds. To drown out the fear and the voice inside that says “you cheated to win Donny Boy and you’re a fraud and no one would actually vote for the real you”.

  • Dr. Strangelove’s Child

    Paul Ryan will be President by the end of the year. He told Nunez to go to Trump, knowing that it would force a independent commission to investigate the President. It will also implicate Pence, coupled with the CNN report that members of the Trump campaign clouded with the Russians to release the hacked information.

    It’s all starting to fall into place.

  • Mack N. Nietzsche

    The Piracy needs to remember, it wasn’t the Watergate break-in that brought down Nixon, it was the coverup.

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