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Put your tongue back in your mouth, jackass.

Oh dear! Devin Nunes, the idiot boy chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is in big trouble mister! It turns out that doing the bidding of Donald Trump and running to the White House in the dead of night to view super secret classified information about fake “wire tapps” put on the president, then (in this order) briefing the public with classified information, pretending to brief the president, and then briefing the public again (while refusing to share the classified info with your own committee), might get you a visit from the House Ethics Committee! And this is happening even though the House is controlled by Republicans!

Nunes has announced that, FOR NOW, he will go ahead and step aside from the Intel committee’s Russia investigation, which is not a thing he was actually investigating in the first place, because he is a complicit P.O.S. who should probably be in jail:

His announcement was made on the same morning that the House Committee on Ethics said Mr. Nunes was under investigation because of public reports that he “may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.”

The congressman has been under growing criticism for his handling of the Russian inquiry. Many on Capitol Hill have said he is too eager to do the White House’s bidding and cannot be an impartial investigator into questions about any role President Trump’s associates may have had in last year’s Russian campaign to disrupt the election.

Wow! Now again, he says he’s only stepping aside temporarily, because obviously this investigation is so important it will eventually once again require the bright mind of the smartest guy from Fresno ever to live, in order that it may be completed properly.

Nunes released a statement that is equal parts bitchy and remarkably stupid, and we will laugh at it right now:

Several leftwing activist groups have filed accusations against me with the Office of Congressional Ethics.

LOL.

The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmasking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power.

Oh honey, that’s not what the investigation is about. But how does Donald Trump’s anus taste in your mouth right now? Like store brand orange soda and poo?

Despite the baselessness of the charges, I believe it is in the best interests of the House Intelligence Committee and the Congress for me to have Representative Mike Conaway, with assistance from Representatives Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney, temporarily take charge of the Committee’s Russia investigation while the House Ethics Committee looks into this matter.

Oh Christ, Trey Gowdy. He will make this better, for sure.

On the one hand, Gowdy is smart enough that he knows Trump was lying about “wire tapps,” but at the same time he’s real stupid and is probably STILL investigating Benghazi in his spare time. Also, he looks, sounds and smells (allegedly) like somebody who gave Foghorn Leghorn free blowjobs in college.

Gowdy said on Wednesday that he didn’t think it was very gentlemanly of the president to say former national security adviser Susan Rice might have done a crime, because it’s a bald faced lie pulled out of Trump’s spray-tanned B-hole “No, ma’am, the Congress doesn’t investigate crime,” and also “I don’t like it when anybody accuses other people of committing crimes.” It is very unfair to accuse any human being of doing crimes, unless they are Hillary Clinton and you are trying to figure out how she managed to murder FOUR DEAD AMERICANS in Benghazi, all while having a quiet lesbian Netflix and Chill session with Huma in Georgetown.

Your new boyfriend Rep. Adam Schiff, Democratic ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, says this is all good news, saying it will give the committee a “fresh start moving forward,” but he WOULD say that, because, as Alex Jones informed us recently, he is an Archetypal Cocksucker with the beautiful eyes of a frightened lady deer. We don’t know what that means, but Alex Jones is a pretty serious journalist, so we should probably pay attention.

Anyway, bye Devin Nunes! Don’t come back to the Russia investigation you weren’t remotely investigating in the first place, because 1) you’re too stupid, 2) you can’t be trusted, and 3) gosh darnit, everybody hates you, including Jesus and your mom.

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  • MynameisBlarney
    • Oblios_Cap

      The Repubs sure have a great deal of respect for rules for others; but if they don’t like some rules, they just change them to get their way.
      Republican governing is just another version of Calvinball.

      • msanthropesmr

        ‘Cept Calvinball looks kinda fun.

      • Al Swearengen

        At this point, Republicans might let Gorsuch fail, so they’ll have something besides Trump to talk about in the midterms. They need an enemy to run against. “Re-elect me to fight them dastardly obstructin’ Democrats!”

        • Lascauxcaveman

          Not a bad strategy, since Gorsuch is truly reviled only by the most well-informed progressives. The R’s could hold him up as a martyr.

          Also: “Fuck Trump, anyway; how far far should I go out on a limb for that asshole?”

          – Any R Member of Congress

      • TJ Barke

        Calvinball libel!

  • memzilla Ω
  • Oblios_Cap

    he looks, sounds and smells (allegedly) like somebody who gave Foghorn Leghorn free blowjobs in college
    How does one who gave Foghorn Leghorn free blowjobs in college sound and smell? I would have thought they would resemble Bannon more than Nunes.

    • Thespian Pony Ron

      Depends on how much shame he felt afterwards.

  • Vincent Ricola

    Step up, comrade Gowdy. Let’s get public with your role in this whole mess.

    But in the meantime…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

  • memzilla Ω
  • Al Swearengen

    Devin wants to spend more time with his ethics charges family.

  • Jennifer R

    Did he ever do any more than take his Russian business partner off his Wine’s website? I know he never stopped doing business, because it’s where he gets his bribes.

  • Nounverb911

    “I can haz immunity?”
    –Devin Nunes

  • Bub, Zombie of the Resistance

    I think that after the Democratic committee members saw this yearbook photo,

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/80d3d123fc680ca49f937e330daeccd5cb00c85a0d1afd198c54feddb5eddf5c.png

    they took him in the bathroom and gave him swirlies until he was crying and promised to step aside. (Actually, I just hope that’s what happened…)

    • Zonath
      • Nightcrawler

        Devin would play a one-note bully on Saved By The Bell.

    • Crank Tango

      Someone spent the summer working at Chess King.

      • alwayspunkindrublic

        The patchouli…dear God, the patchouli.

    • Nightcrawler

      I’m just gonna say it. Screw the 80’s.

    • Hutch

      Class voted him “Archetypal Asshole of 1991.”

      • coozledad

        ‘Most likely to perish in abandoned refrigerator”

    • PubOption

      I thought of Barry Manilow when I saw that photo.
      http://kingofwallpapers.com/barry-manilow/barry-manilow-006.jpg

      Had there not been the announcement of Manilow coming out, yesterday, I doubt that the thought would have crossed my mind.

    • You can tell Dev was one of the cool rich kids at Tulare High School (Mascot: The Fightin’ Portaguee Potatoes) cuz like all cool rich kids he rocked that damn turtleneck.

  • Nightcrawler

    “We will investigate ourselves and then clear ourselves of any and all wrongdoing”. ~Wingnuts

    • Proud Liberal

      Yep, pretty much the case.

    • Thespian Pony Ron

      An interesting inversion of the old ‘You will be given a fair trial, after which you will be shot’ trope.

    • willi0000000

      . . . and they do it in the wrong order!

  • Nounverb911
    • Carpe Vagenda

      That’s très gowdy of them.

      • TakingAmes

        You win the internet!

      • ken_kukec

        Trey Gowdy, très gauche — tomato, tomahto.

  • Crank Tango

    You say “entirely false and politically motivated” as if that’s a bad thing.

  • Bobathonic

    Don;t you spoil Foghorn Leghorn for me.

    • msanthropesmr

      I say – that boy is about as sharp as a bag of bowling balls.

      • Hairstrike Alpha

        Nice boy but he’s as smart as a bag of hammas…

        • Thespian Pony Ron

          Nice boy, but his elevator don’t go all the way to the top floor.

  • Nounverb911
    • Al Swearengen

      The moment the biggest cock in the chicken yard sees the juiciest worm he’s ever seen…

      • weejee

        The moment the biggest dick in the chicken yard sees the juiciest worm he’s ever seen…

        / fixed

    • Hairstrike Alpha

      That exact moment when you realize that you just shit your pants and enjoy the warm softness on your bottom…

    • ariel_gee_398

      Gowdy is, and forever shall be, atop the list of Republicans who would not shock me by unzipping their faces to reveal they are really aliens in skin suits.

    • Thespian Pony Ron

      PROCESSOR IDLING…
      PROCESSOR IDLING…
      PROCESSOR IDLING…

  • Martini Ambassador 🍸

    Nunes, man. Maybe it’s just me, but he reminds me of somebody similarly-named.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8714a77e35f97bf040764034af3359b29924aaf34420a60a4159ea878efd1868.jpg

    • Nightcrawler

      Newman libelz! He was a far more intelligent and calculating villain.

  • Michael Smith

    Weird. Republican voters seem to unanimously support what Nunes was doing, so I don’t know why the representatives booted him. Whatever the reason, they are all about to face accusations of RINOism from their constituents.

    So far, the only acceptable reason for a Republican to challenge Trump has been if Trump is acting too liberal. And Trump’s using a puppet to manipulate a committee tasked with investigating him doesn’t qualify for that.

    • shivaskeeper

      my heart bleeds for them.

  • Crystalclear12

    There was no need to insult Fresno.

    • BosGrl

      Ted Baxter libelz!

    • Nockular cavity
    • Yr. Gma

      My late uncle graduated from high school in Fresno and was once considered “the smartest guy in Fresno” by himself.

    • puredog

      ISWYDT

  • weejee

    Foghorn Leghorn libel!

  • Bub, Zombie of the Resistance

    Who was it that said of Nunes “No one is going to ask him to bring the potato salad to the Mensa picnic?” I like that line.

    • msanthropesmr

      Never eat potato salad at a picnic. You don’t know what bacteria are living in it.

      • WotsAllThisThen

        I can attest to that. Especially if you arrive six hours late to the picnic on a hot day. Do NOT say, Ooooooh leftover potato salad! I’m so hungry!

  • TJ Barke

    God, I hope they all fry…

    • Nightcrawler

      Microwaving is good enough for them.

      • Crystalclear12

        The southern ones have to be fried, it’s in their contract.

      • WotsAllThisThen

        I hope there’s a microwave in the room so the rest of us can watch.

        • Nockular cavity

          I hope we can get out of the microwave.

  • memzilla Ω

    In other Washington news, Democrats have successfully filibustered Neil Gorsuch. Got some shade to cast, Senator Durbin?

    “Republicans refused to even consider Judge Garland during the presidential election year, a fact Mr. McConnell has not dwelled on during public statements about the history of Republican behavior under Democratic presidents.

    ‘There must have been a hacking into his computer,’ Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said of Mr. McConnell on Thursday from the Senate floor, ‘because he can’t print the name Merrick Garland to include in the speech.’”

  • Crystalclear12

    Meh, they just used the idiot replacement program.

  • Chadwells
  • Proud Liberal

    Hey Mitch! You don’t change the rules. You change the judge!

  • MynameisBlarney
    • WotsAllThisThen

      Wow. I miss Obama but these guys must really miss Obama.

    • Antonin Dvorak

      Does the GOP realize they are just incentivizing the Democrats?

    • Vincent Ricola

      LOL indeed.

    • Nightcrawler

      Watching right wingers go at each other’s throats is like watching the YouTube comments section come to life.

      • Tallmutha

        Not exactly. The YouTube comments depress me.

    • Bub, Zombie of the Resistance

      According to the report, Trump officials, including Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, joined Vice President Mike Pence and Priebus at the meeting, urging Ryan to vote on a bill before an upcoming recess. They also pushed the House Speaker to accept changes that would make the GOP replacement plan more appealing to conservative House Republicans, including members of the House Freedom Caucus.

      But isn’t the problem that if they craft a bill that is palatable to the Freedumb Caucus, they lose more moderate Republican votes? I’m beginning to think these people ain’t too smart…

      • puredog

        I think that the congresscritters have figured out that repealing and replacing Obamacare may be, worse than complicated, impossible, because of that dynamic, and they’re about ready to shrug and say “Well, we did our durnedest” (which they didn’t but whatevs), and walk away. Trump — who IS that not smrt — is pushing them, using his huuuuuuge leverage (hint: he has virtually none) to do the impossible, and they’re all like “wut?”

      • Msgr_MΩment

        It’s called “short-sheeting” the bed. Donnie should have learned all about this during his extensive military [school] experience.

  • Anna Rompage

    Having Representative Mike Conaway investigate Russian ties to the election and Trump is like putting Jim Inhofe in charge of a committee dedicated to study climate change

    • WotsAllThisThen

      Or putting Donald Trump in charge of anything at all.

    • ariel_gee_398

      It doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell?

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Con Away. Apply directly to the forehead.

  • Chadwells
  • Nounverb911
    • UncleTravelingMatt

      Shocking.

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      All hat. No cattle.

      • Thespian Pony Ron

        Not much hat either.

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      And still be applauded by the MSM and booked on Sunday talk shows to pontificate about his noble principles.

      • Villago Delenda Est

        Hence my nym.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • Nightcrawler

      Kremlins: Don’t Tweet Them After Midnight

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Mr. Nunes was under investigation because of public reports that he “may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2259a8b713772dddc8b1eee3a50d7d096357d63ef73e71c15094edf96c2a929.jpg

  • proudgrampa

    “…smartest guy from Fresno…”

    This made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

  • kaydenpat

    We’re all happy until Trump nominates Nunes for an important cabinet position. Or did Nunes just sacrifice his political career for nothing?

  • Hairstrike Alpha

    All this talk of unmasking makes me long for the Scooby gang to investigate the “Case of the Moron Zombies Run Amok”

  • Nounverb911
  • Bill D. Burger

    [“Mr. Nunes was under investigation because of public reports that he “may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.”]

    Nunestraitorghazeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’__

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1bc5631757b1996e324743bfce4db50248f2a49a721a1a4a525be0be64f90699.png

  • the smartest guy from Fresno

    The saner parts of the great state of California would like to say that we are deeply sorry that our resident rednecks forced this guy on the rest of you.

  • Nounverb911
    • Shoto

      “Rest assured, they’re not happy about it.”

      On the other hand, they’ve still got Boy-Howdy Gowdy. (Cue banjo music.)

      • Bub, Zombie of the Resistance

        Gowdy was the dumb brother. Couldn’t play banjo worth a shit:

        https://youtu.be/wcZlxCNzQqw

        • Rags

          nice choice – Russian dubbing.

      • Villago Delenda Est

        Prepare the lifeboats! Flop sweat flood incoming!

    • Bub, Zombie of the Resistance

      We all remember how thrilled Donnie was when Sessions recused himself. I hope the son of a bitch has a fucking stroke this time.

  • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

    “Quick, we need a distraction!” – Trump
    https://twitter.com/CNN/status/850014912642523137

  • TheGrandWazoo2

    The worst immediate impact from the Gorsuch appointment will be Little Lord Feltersnatch crowing about his great victory over the Democrats.

  • Villago Delenda Est

    the bright mind of the smartest guy from Fresno ever to live

    No, that would have been Cane Kensington.

  • Bill D. Burger

    When asked to comment on Nunes departure, Ryan and Trump replied:

    https://vectortoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/comic-words-collection-014.jpg

  • Riley Whodat Venable

    Bye Felicia.

  • UncleTravelingMatt

    First Aldrich Ames, now Devin Nunes. Will the FBI and the other left wing activist groups stop at nothing?

    • Courser_Resistance

      NOPE

  • Lefty Frizzell

    Who appointed Gowdy? ZEGS? It does have the appearance of a deliberate dick move.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      The only move ZEGS knows.

    • Courser_Resistance

      It’s pretty clear that they picked one of the guys Ds hate with a purple passion. HowdyGowdy fits the bill

  • Shoto

    “Several leftwing activist groups…”

    Pfffft.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      “Leftwing! Leftwing!” It’s a magic word, like “Radical Islamic Terrorist” or “Expellaramus!”

      • Indivisible Snark Tank

        To these ijits, “leftwing” means anybody more liberal than the Freedumb Caucus.

      • Tallmutha

        Go ahead, Dev, tell the world how you got your ass handed to you by “leftwing activist groups.”

      • cmd resistor

        I’m only surprised he didn’t call us Libtards in his “statement.”

    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      More like ALL of them, Devin. Yer including that leftwing “FBI,” too, right?

      WE’RE COMING FOR YOU, CROOKED FUCKS.

  • WotsAllThisThen

    Nunes is only stepping down because he accomplished his goal of de-operationalizing the investigation.

  • Mavenmaven

    “You get a prison sentence, and you get a prison sentence- you all get a prison sentence!”

    • Courser_Resistance

      It’s my very own daydream that every single one of those motherfuckers ends up with prison time. Also too, no cushy ‘private prisons’ for ’em either. I hear Leavenworth is nice this time of year.

      • snark-lurker

        Leavenworth is too nice, too kind, to well regulated

        • Querolous

          We can recycle Sheriff Joe’s tent jail! Maricopa County isn’t using it.

      • therblig

        I think Jared and Ivanka have to go to Unleavenedworth.

        • Courser_Resistance

          Only during Passover. Good luck getting your kosher meals in the pokey. I think they have to provide them by law (Special Privileges!!!), but I’m sure they suck rocks.

      • cmd resistor

        Rock crushing in Siberia.

  • UncleTravelingMatt

    Elizabeth Drew wrote a really good column here: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/04/05/no-one-to-blame-but-trump/

    Like, Teen Vogue good.

  • Mpeg

    If the Trump administration haz a sad that so Many Departed / Demoralized/ Demoted persons of rank are claiming headlines, they can spin a positive note by going ahead & promoting Mehlania to First Lady already~

  • Msgr_MΩment

    And he would have gotten away with it! If it hadn’t been for those pesky kids leakers.

  • Logic of Color

    I went to Fresno once. Once.

  • Michael R

    Breitbart publishes multiple anti-Kushner stories
    in the wake of Steve Bannon’s NSC ouster

    https://s29.postimg.org/cbnqg7vnb/cat_fight_GIF_cropped_FINAL.gif

  • Proud Liberal

    It’s hard to believe that this all started with a DT tweet. God, this country has gone mad!

  • MynameisBlarney

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/breitbart-publishes-multiple-anti-kushner-stories-in-the-wake-of-steve-bannons-nsc-ouster/

    Well…that certainly didn’t take very long at all.

    Looks like all the circular firing squad practice is finally paying off for the GOP.

  • msanthropesmr

    So OT – but I stayed home to stave off what appeared to be bad weather, but the sun is now shining, so I guess it worked.

  • Banrion

    OTish, but AJ is mentioned in the article. I happened to notice on YouTube yesterday that Alex Jones is accusing Jared Kushner of being in cahoots with MSNBC. This seems unusual to me, but I don’t hang out at infowars.

    So, is this AJ/JK animosity new, or is it just another crack in the unholy alliance that I was blissfully unaware of until now?

    • msanthropesmr

      Jew

      • Villago Delenda Est

        They always fall back to that. It’s their nature.

        • msanthropesmr

          Yep.

    • Thiazin Red

      Does Jones like Bannon? There were rumors that Kushner was responsible for getting Bannon out, so maybe thats why?

      Never, mind I got my answer in the next thread.

      • Banrion

        WHY WHY WHY would they draw futher attention to that mess? I just assumed that the NSC reorganization was McMaster. Which would have been entirely appropriate for his position and the fact that control of staff was one of his sticking points before accepting the appointment. No reason to drag Kushner into it at all, even if that was what happened.

        • Thiazin Red

          They’re all stupid assholes?

    • Tallmutha

      Apparently Roger Stone is the one who said Jared spills all to Joe Scarb. What a trickster!

  • TundraGrifter

    Remember the sitcom “Fresno?” I don’t think Mr. Nunes would have made it in the raisin business.

    • msanthropesmr

      No, but do you remember Herman’s Head? That sucked.

    • Persistent Demme

      I totally remember it.
      So funny!
      My dad was from Fresno, where his grandfather was a “raisin (grape) grower.”

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Monsieur_Grumpe

    He’s so good at not doing stuff that I can see a bright future for this young man in the GOP!
    Oh wait.

  • Nounverb911

    OT
    Protestors are already lined up to greet He and Xi when they arrive in Palm Beach.
    https://twitter.com/caneswatch/status/850003348417896448

  • Michael R
  • Nounverb911
  • TheGrandWazoo2

    Kasie Hunt: The last time Devin Nunes was seen he was dressed in casual clothes driving away in the pouring rain.

    Warms the cockles of your heart, don’t it?

  • ken_kukec

    “… Trey Gowdy. He will make this better, for sure.”

    Back to “Life During Wartime” for the Big Trey (“I changed my hairstyle, so many times now/I don’t know what I look like!”)

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Burned all my wiretapps.
      What good are wiretapps?
      They won’t help me survive.

  • Nounverb911
  • goonemeritus

    We need a weekly Wonkette who’s stepping down now feature.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      AOT,K.

    • eyelashviper

      And soon, who is under arrest, jailed, sent to Gitmo…

      • Fled into exile in Russia.

        • eyelashviper

          Soon it will be Springtime in Siberia, and plenty of really cheap dachas will be available.

        • Lord Jim

          …to be shot at the airport by some Chechnyan thug who OBVIOUSLY has no connection to Pooty Poot.

  • Chadwells
  • MynameisBlarney
  • akryan

    God, this needs a special prosecutor. I don’t trust trey Gowdy to any better than Nunes, except that he may not be personally involved.

    • Lord Jim

      Have patience. I fully expect Gowdy Doody to become involved by deflecting, dissembling, and partisan fucknuttery.

  • “Wow! Now again, he says he’s only stepping aside temporarily, because obviously this investigation is so important it will eventually once again require the bright mind of the smartest guy from Fresno ever to live, in order that it may be completed properly to cover up all the wrong doing by My So-Called President and his collaborators.

    FTFY

  • Bill D. Burger

    It’s impossible to hate these fucking depraved, loathsome, hypocrites enough.

    http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MitchSCOTUS.jpg

    • Proud Liberal

      They don’t want to govern. They want to rule. Fucking assholes.

      • MizzMazz

        I’m so sick of their lying faces.

    • Lord Jim

      Btich McTurtle has been a mean little partisan hack since forever. I expect this of him. What I didn’t expect was members of the MSM acting like his fucking press secretaries and constantly pelting Dems with his classic abuser bullshit – “Look what you made me do”. Some fucking bint on MSNBC pressed a senator (don’t recall which) THREE TIMES with “But what about MM’s complaint about blahblahderpderp?? Huh? How come??” HOW COME YOU CALL YOURSELF S JOURNALIST AND DON”T KNOW MCTRAITOR IS A PARTISAN TROLL YOU BRAINLESS MOUTH HOLE?!

    • Once&futureFred

      When Mitch McConnell (or any GOP co-conspirator really) says “the American People” he means about 345 families.

  • ken_kukec

    ” Trey Gowdy … looks, sounds and smells (allegedly) like somebody who gave Foghorn Leghorn free blowjobs in college.”

    Fake news! Gowdy was fully compensated for those beejays — in Ecstasy and Snickers bars.

  • Nounverb911
  • The charges are entirely false and politically motivated

    While I appreciate that Rep. Nunnes knows a lot about being politically motivated, it is really hard to call something false when you did it in public in front of television cameras.

    And when will he start the leak investigation into the My So-Called President’s staffers who leaked information to him, but couldn’t manage to get it to “45” down the hall?

    • Thiazin Red

      Hes just following his bass’ example. How many times did Trump deny saying things that there are recordings of him saying?

  • MynameisBlarney

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/alex-joness-threat-to-congressman-may-be-a-felony/

    Sounds like Jonesie may have gone too far this time…

    • Vincent Ricola

      LOCK HIM UP!

    • TJ Barke

      Someone really needs to take AJ to the woodshed.

      • Villago Delenda Est

        And after that, to that charming plot of land just outside the church.

      • Rags

        …where the rusty chainsaw of votes awaits.

    • Pisto75666
    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      Cult-founding tip of the Russian disinformation spear says what, now?

  • Jennifer R

    Is he a small enough fish to go to jail?

  • Bill D. Burger

    Gorsuch will sit in the “Garland Seat” on the SCOTUS. It will forever be known as that and Gorsuch will have accepted a tainted and debased position.
    If he had an ounce of integrity or his place in US history, he would have refused to accept the nomination at the beginning of this debacle.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      He’ll tea with Thomas twice weekly.

      • Yr. Gma

        Coke and pubes?

        • puredog

          OT: Corker showing signs of sanity, as he sometimes does, in the WaPo:

          — Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) dropped a truth bomb during an important but little-noticed floor speech last week. “Everybody
          says: Oh, we are never going to do it on legislation,” he said. “Come on! … If we continue on the path we are on right now, the very next time there is a legislative proposal that one side of the aisle feels is so important they cannot let their base down, the pressure builds, and then we are going to invoke the nuclear option on the legislative piece too. That is what will happen. Somebody will do it.”

          Corker candidly acknowledged that Reid went nuclear in 2013 because Republicans were blocking Barack Obama nominees who were “actually pretty decent” from being confirmed. “But we did not want the balance of the D.C. Circuit to change because it was at four to four,” he said.

          The Tennessean also nodded to how unprecedented it was for his party to block Merrick Garland last year, announcing just hours after Antonin Scalia’s death that no one Obama
          picked would even get a hearing. “It was a pretty audacious move, let’s face it, and obviously it created some hard feelings on the other side,” he said.

          Corker argued that the Garland and Gorsuch blockades, respectively, show neither party can withstand pressure from its base. “Let’s face it: If we do not have respect for the institution we serve and for ourselves, no one else will,” he said. “For us to act like if we do it here, there is no way we would ever do it on a legislative piece–let me tell you this: … Two years ago, there would not have been a single Republican in our caucus who would have even considered voting for the nuclear option (now). As a matter of fact, we had discussions about
          changing it back. Then the election occurred, and we decided not to do that. … To say that we will never get to the point at which we will not change a legislative piece–give me a break! Somebody is not living in reality!”

          • Lord Jim

            Damn. That’s quite a candid confession.

      • therblig

        Teabag you say?

    • Vincent Ricola

      Gorsuck has no integrity. What kind of judge acts in his own “confirm me please” commercials funded by political superpacs? What the fuck kind of judicial impartiality is that?

    • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

      Annnnd he’s a plagerist.

    • Rags

      All his decisions get an asterisk, also too he can’t be in the Hall of Fame.

  • Nounverb911
    • Bill D. Burger

      Damn! Canada got the gold mine and we got the shaft.

    • Jamoche

      I know! I know! Adopt California, and then push us a bit harder like a good parent ought to.

      • WotsAllThisThen

        We promise to be good and eat our vegetables!

    • Pisto75666
    • Rags

      Dear Canada,

      We surrender.

      Sincerely,

      America

    • Lord Jim

      Skirt and jackboots? WTH?

  • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨
  • Thaumaturgist

    Downthread MynameisBlarny links to a democratic underground post that says the Trumpsters, including Rience Pribus, threatened to sack Paul Ryan if he didn’t bring TrumpCare 2.0 up for a vote before they left this week. You suppose the move on Nunes could be a preemptive strike?

    • Jennifer R

      This feels like some sort of television show now. None of this is normal and they all belong in jail.

    • MynameisBlarney

      It’s possible.
      But I’m thinking it’s just as likely this is merely a symptom of the GOP incompetence in the WH and both houses.

    • God Emperor Emeritus

      Really, really, curious to hear an explanation of how Rinsed Peebus thinks he can “sack Paul Ryan”.

    • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

      They might have threatened to primary him from the right. I don’t think that’s how it’s going to work. As long as Trumps approval ratings stay in the mid 30’s he’s as impotent as his tiny orange weener.

  • Democrats should start immediately demanding that the intelligence committee investigate Rep. Nunes and his attempt to conspire with the White House to obstruct justice. Also add Reince Priebus to that investigation.

  • WotsAllThisThen

    Is it time to send in Kushner? Or is he too busy in Syria right now?

    • God Emperor Emeritus

      I think he had “Resolve P=NP question” penciled in for the 12:35 spot.

  • hendenburg2

    So anyone else hear that George Takei is planning on challenging Nunes for his congressional seat in ’18?

  • Robert James Nugent

    Oh yea, Mike “Mexican Soap Stars” Conaway. He’ll get right on it.

  • mardam422

    “Also, he looks, sounds and smells (allegedly) like somebody who gave Foghorn Leghorn free blowjobs in college.”
    I say, I say, Boy! You just take this here fat chicken leg in your mouth and…. Pay attention to me when I’m talkin’ to you Boy! Now that’s a joke Boy. I say, that’s a joke. That isn’t a chicken leg at all.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      I read that completely in Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn mode. Well done!

    • Jamoche

      “Kids these days. Don’t know how to choke their chicken. Now, when I was a lad, I… wait, choke their chicken? But I’m the chick- *glurgle*”

      • mardam422

        Nice.

  • Crank Tango

    For some reason, I keep thinking of how much jail time Rod Blagojevich got.

  • Jamoche

    Fun with ledes:
    http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-masturbation-bill-is-now-in-the-hands-of-11052043.php
    “Texas masturbation bill is now in the hands of the Texas State Affairs Committee”

    • laughingnome

      Governor chafes at masturbation debate

      • Bobathonic

        Well, it rubs him the wrong way.

        • OrdinaryJoe

          Is this new law in the Penal Code?

          • mardam422

            The real problem isn’t holding the bill. It’s making all those amendments so fast.

    • Rotisserie Teal

      So that’s why justice is blind….

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Treg Brown

    We are live counting today's vote on the Gorsuch nomination. Follow the votes here: https://t.co/igYWnzceZZ pic.twitter.com/hlaUhB50Zm— NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) April 6, 2017

    • Wild Cat

      The fucking NYT? But her emails!!!!

      • Thiazin Red

        Yeah, the NYT should now and forever lose the right to act upset over Trump. This is part your fault assholes.

    • Jamoche

      First comment: “Might as well make an interactive graphic of America f*cking itself.”

      • Wild Cat

        Fuckers in Times Sq already fucked us more that a $5 crack whore—who probably will get a gig on their Op-Ed pages soon. (Better than Dowd, Douthat, Kristoff, Friedman, and the rest of the shits they pimp, those fuckers.)

        • SnarkON

          Uh, yeah…no.

    • OrdinaryJoe

      Repfucklicans went nuke. Chickenshit Reid should have blown the whole thing up a decade ago.

  • tapp_my_wire,please

    If Nunes is out, it must be time to call in Jared.

    • Thiazin Red

      Just add it to the list after make peace in the middle east and totally change how government works.

  • writersbloc

    Serious question, what actually happens with ethics investigations? Aside from super bone-headed shit like Anthony Weiner or Rod Blagojevich- does something like Nunes being a dolt, regardless of how illegal it is, really get punished?

    • laughingnome

      IOKIYAR

      • Thiazin Red

        Although, I think they require that you cry about Jesus and claim to have alcohol problems. Then you can get away with it.

        • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

          The dairy cows are nervous. They don’t want him back.

          • Wild Cat

            C’mon, he gave great nipple-pull and suck.

    • Antonin Dvorak

      He can get censured, maybe fined, I can’t remember when the last time someone was actually arrested. They usually just resign before that (See: Bachmann, Michele).

      • UncleTravelingMatt

        DeLay, maybe?

      • jesterpunk

        Didnt Newt resign after being investigated by the Ethics committee?

        • Antonin Dvorak

          Yeah, I think he was censured first and then left before the mob resharpened their pitchforks.

      • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

        The last person to be expelled from the House was James Traficant in 2002, but he had already been convicted in federal court by the time he had been expelled. The fact that the committee is evenly represented by both parties limits their ability to take action.

        • MizzMazz

          That fucker. I will only remember him for saying, “Beam me up!”

    • eyelashviper
    • Wild Cat

      No.

  • TJ Barke

    Liars, cheaters, thieves, hypocrites, but you may know them by another name; Republicans.

    • Lord Jim

      Worst polka punk revival band ever.

  • SnarkON

    Speaking of spray-tanned B-holes, true story: I once interviewed a spray-tanner to the stars who hilariously told me that there are certain places professional spray-tanners do not touch: “Tits, pits, and naughty bits.”

  • MynameisBlarney
    • Lord Jim

      What If We Gave A Briefing and Nobody Came?

      Well, then you’d have business as usual in a Rethuglican-controlled Congress.

    • Vincent Ricola

      It’s almost like some of these representatives in the house are willfully trying to ignore all the evidence that Russians didn’t just play in the Presidential election and maybe we should be looking at the role they played in some of those down-ballot races.

      Just sayin.

    • eyelashviper

      First they tried obfuscation, obstruction, then lying, so now have retreated to the Ostrich Position, which always works so well.

  • Lefty Frizzell

    “Unlikely hero” scenario – Nunes threatened by Putin/Trump goons but cleverly did what he was told so incredibly fucking badly that he didn’t get the investigation canned, AND got himself off the case.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      Like Nunes is bright enough to figure out that scenario for himself. He’s a dull boy.

      • Lord Jim

        That boy, ah say, that boy wouldn’t know how to pour piss out of a boot.

        • puredog

          “. . .if the instructions were written on the heel” is how that quote ends.

          • Lord Jim

            Thanks for the catch. :)

  • MynameisBlarney

    Golly, it seems bannon doesn’t care for kushner very much at all.

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028900090

    • eyelashviper

      What fun, just hope the showdown will be televised…pay per view would bring in some big bucks.

      • janecita

        I’m hoping for a fight to the death, and the winner gets to be thrown in jail! I’d sell my first born to watch that!

    • Antonin Dvorak

      It’s been an “open secret” that Bannon and Kushner often clash “face-to-face,” according to senior officials

      Eww.

      • MynameisBlarney

        Can’t they see it?
        They’re both madly in love with each other!

    • Vincent Ricola

      LOL at one grown man calling another grown man a “cuck.”

      • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

        That’s called “believing your own propaganda”

      • Msgr_MΩment

        Breaking: Has “cooties”, also, too.

        • MynameisBlarney

          Fartface and poo-poo head have been heard more than once when those two argue.

      • Crank Tango

        As if every woman he was ever with didn’t cheat all over his ugly ass.

      • AJ Milne

        Seriously, I feel vaguely like I’ve been busted back to kindergarten even having to acknowledge they exist. It’s roll my eyes… then look around for the nice lady telling us all it’s time for our naps.

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      Bannon doesn’t like Jewish people. Jared starts out with one strike against him in the Bannon book.

      • eggsacklywright

        Mere seconds apart, ha.

      • Yr. Gma

        That’s it. He’s a Jew, so Bannon automatically hates him. Jared also gets to stick his parts inside Ivanka, so Trump loves him (by extension.)

        • janecita

          I’m confused, wouldn’t Trump hate him because he gets to fuck Ivanka?

          • Crank Tango

            Trump asks to smell his fingers at every meeting. It’s getting on Bannon’s nerves.

          • Yr. Gma

            He knows he can’t do it himself (well, maybe Ivanka told him no at some point) so the next best thing is staring at Jared and imagining all the nasty stuff he’s doing to daddy’s little girl. (It made sense earlier.)

        • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

          You don’t piss off Ivanka. Even if she secretly thinks Jared is a cuck, she didn’t appreciate Bannon calling him that.

    • eggsacklywright

      Quelle suprise. Nazi doesn’t like da choo.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Kushner was jealous of that time Bannon squeezed Priebus’ leg.

    • Rags
    • cmd resistor

      That made me laugh. I liked the part about the shiv.

    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      Oh no! Not another fight!! Please stop this instant!

      …To get fitted with chainsaw hands.

    • Zyxomma

      Yeah, well, Kushner’s Jewish, and Bannon’s alt-right (cough–Nazi–cough). I disown Jared as a member of our tribe (along with his wife and kids). And if Bannon and Trump are members of the master race, I’m glad to be a Jew.

  • Once&futureFred

    “The charges are entirely false and politically motivated, and are being leveled just as the American people are beginning to learn the truth about the improper unmasking of the identities of U.S. citizens and other abuses of power,” Nunes said in a statement.
    Hmm, what other “abuses of power” because so far nobody has provided evidence of this “improper unmasking” and many people are saying it was the White House (Cough Bannon cough) who outed Flynn, not Susan Rice whose job was to look at intelligence reports that somehow had a whole bunch of Trump people on them from their constant contacts with foreign agents. Weird? I’ll say! Nunes’s statement seems politically motivated to me, and very “obstruction of justicey”.

  • MynameisBlarney
  • puredog

    From the WaPo:

    “On April Fools’ Day, the Russian Foreign Ministry posted on its
    Facebook page a sendup of a Russian Embassy’s answering machine,” Carol Morello reports.
    “The recorded message could be heard in Russian and English: ‘You have
    reached the Russian Embassy. Your call is very important to us. To
    arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponents,
    press 1. To use the services of Russian hackers, press 2. To request
    election interference, press 3 and wait until the next election
    campaign. Please note that all calls are recorded for quality
    improvement and training purposes.’”

    • Antonin Dvorak

      I didn’t know humor was still legal there.

      • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

        Humor is OK, but the punch line has to basically be, “Fuck you, this is Russia” at some point in your routine.

      • timpundit

        Who sez it’s humor.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      How do we know that this wasn’t their recorded message on March 31?

    • janecita

      Isn’t that their regular message?

    • gamera23

      In my country, answering machine call you!

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Had MItch McConnell died of radiation poison yet? Cause that’s fallout from the nuclear option that I could support.

  • John Resistant Tovarich Smith

    Foghorn Leghorn don’t need no free blowjobs; he hires rent-boys like all other good Republicans!

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Mitch McConnell, whom some people thought loves the Senate so much that he wouldn’t do this. — MSNBC reporter, obviously on meth.

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      lol – McCain also concerned trolled this after saying last year he was OK keeping 8 justices if Clinton won the election.

      • Jukesgrrl

        I always knew McCain was a hypocrite but in these 13 weeks of the Trump Maladministration, he has set a new record for saying one thing and voting the opposite. What an ass!

  • Bill D. Burger
  • Amelia Resists and Persists

    Open letter to the next Democratic president with a Democratic majority in the Senate:

    Congratulations! Because Republicans in Trump’s America were hard-set on shooting themselves in the foot while fucking America for the next several decades, you have a special opportunity to appoint someone to the Supreme Court that, prior to today, would have been filibustered to hell and back.

    In light of this, we, the People of Wonkette, request that that person be Barack Obama.

    Thank you for your consideration and see you in 2020!

    • Lily412

      I was curious about how feasible this idea was, so I looked up his education and previous careers. It looks like he taught constitutional law for a long time, so that’s good, but it doesn’t look like he’s ever been a judge. I guess we can dream, but I doubt he would get picked.

      • I don’t think technically you need to have been a judge before. I believe it is traditional, but it isn’t Constitutional.

        • Lord Jim

          You are correct.

        • Jukesgrrl

          Being a lawyer isn’t even a requirement, let alone having served as a judge.

      • Jukesgrrl

        Among the justices who were not judges before being appointed: Earl Warren, William Rehnquist, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell, Byron White, Abe Fortas, etc.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • DerpyGurdyMan
    • Lily412

      Wake up and go to sleep!
      (Shemp was my favorite, though.)

  • BigBoppa ~ Résistent

    This image is illegal in Russia. So please be careful not to share it with as many people as possible.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0adbeda0ff38bfb693eef7458f38be1d756ec8f41eec91a48bb1db18cea6ce82.jpg

    • eyelashviper

      Purty mouth….

    • janecita

      I can’t understand why they don’t like it, he looks fabulous!

      • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

        Yeah, I mean if you’re gonna constantly peep into people’s lives, put a little effort into your eye makeup! Give something back!

    • Lily412

      Ladies and gentlemen…the Joker! Brought to you by Andy Warhol.

  • eyelashviper

    From Charles Pierce at Esquire, a lovely piercing sword to the heart of Goper inanity, a fine skewering of Gowdy and Conaway:

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54347/devin-nunes-russia-trey-gowdy-conaway/

    • Zyxomma

      That was refreshing.

  • Blackest Noobs

    HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! NUNES!!!! YOURE SUCH A DICK!!!!!

    i love it how he blames his own inadequacies on left-wing activist groups…HA HA HA when are dumbfucks who vote for these weak Republicans gonna FUCKING WISE THE FUCK UP????

    • Hamilton Ω, AKA Formerly DN

      never

    • ibwilliamsi

      Sorry, we can’t fix stupid.

      • Bitter Scribe

        They can’t be fixed. They can only be outvoted.

    • Zyxomma

      Never. Which is why it’s so important for Democrats to get off their asses and vote!

  • Lily412

    I love you, Evan. This cheered me up immensely on a day when I’m not feeling well.

    • kareemachan

      Ditto.

  • Bitter Scribe

    “I didn’t do anything wrong and every charge against me is politically motivated. Also, I’m stepping down.”

  • Zyxomma

    Thanks, Evan.

  • President in Exile Firefly

    “I’m recusing myself to spend more time with my family.”

  • zerosumgame0005

    holy fuck! I live in Fresno and while we went for Hillary how the FUCK did he get elected! I will make sure to protest his skanky ass in 2018

  • willi0000000

    gowdy has generated another call for the plumbers . . . to put flop-sweat drains in the committee room.

  • whitroth

    Oh, yes, Nunes says he’s asked for a meeting with the Ethics Committee Real Soon, so they make this False Charges go away, an’ he can get back to taking money from Eastern European sources, I mean, investigatin’ up a storm!

  • Pierre_de_Fermat

    Schindler:

    //twitter.com/20committee/status/849980756252385280

    "As I have completed my mission to wreck the investigation, I will now focus on impending indictments against me." https://t.co/Fa88kV5iAY— John Schindler (@20committee) April 6, 2017

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      Rick Wilson

      Devin Nunes Is Just the Errand Boy in the Trump-Russia Scandal – The Daily Beast https://t.co/aQNdfLxRxH pic.twitter.com/BrdtAZuyiq— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 6, 2017

      //twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/849986196218490881/photo/1

      • Stulexington

        Echos of W praising the good work of the person resigning in disgrace.

        • Jukesgrrl

          Heck of a job©, Brownie.

  • A Bashful Nobody

    Hmmm……..Isn’t “politically motivated” what they claim just before being sent to prison?

  • Stulexington

    Great, so this was all a conspiracy created by Hillary years ago that she covered up by doing Benghazi or however Trey tries to redirect things into another Benghazi thing.

  • Jukesgrrl

    Fresno. That explains everything.

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