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Well children, we learned a bunch of new things Thursday morning when we all climbed on Uncle Jim Comey’s lap and let him read us stories about Donald Trump! But one of the most memorable moments of the hearing came at the end when Senator John McCain, an “honorary” member of the Senate Intel Committee, dropped some SICK questions on Comey, and by “sick” we mean we are kind of worried his brain came down with a case of genital warts this morning.

Here are McCain’s questions to Comey. We will not include Comey’s answers, because Wonkette’s answers are funnier than Uncle Jim’s:

In the case of Hillary Clinton you made the statement that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to bring a suit against her, although it had been very “careless” in their behavior, but you did reach a conclusion in that case that it was not necessary to further pursue her. But at the same time, in the case of Mr. Comey, you said that there was not enough information to make a conclusion. Tell me the difference between your conclusion as far as former Secretary Clinton is concerned, and mister, Mister Trump.

The Clinton FBI email investigation was over, whereas the Trump-Russia collusion investigation wasn’t?

That investigation was going on, this investigation is going on, you reach separate conclusions …

No …

That investigation of any involvement of Secretary Clinton or any of her associates is completed.

Yes. The investigation into her emails. Which wasn’t about Russia.

Well at least in the minds of this member there’s a whole lot of questions remaining about what went on, particularly considering the fact that, as you mention, it’s a quote “big deal,” as to what went on during the campaign. So, I’m glad that you concluded that part of the investigation, but I think the American people have a whole lot of questions out there, particularly since you just emphasized the role that Russia played. And obviously, she was a candidate for president at the time, so she was clearly involved in this whole situation where fake news, as you just described it, big deal, took place! You’re gonna have to help me out here.

CLEARLY.

In other words, we’re complete the investigation of anything that former Secretary Clinton had to do with the campaign is over, and we don’t have to worry about it anymore?

Um, so, you see, Hillary’s campaign was never investigated for collusion with Russia. In fact, her campaign was never investigated for ANYTHING. Hillary Clinton was investigated for being the Pol Pot of emails when she led the State Department, but the FBI concluded that investigation and determined that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges. Here’s why!

Comey tried to explain that, but WALNUTS!!!!!111! perhaps took a break to eat some mashed peas or maybe take a nap, because he still didn’t get it:

So but at the same time you made the announcement there would be no charges brought against then-Secretary Clinton for any activities involved in the Russia involvement in our engagement in our election. I don’t quite understand how you can be done with that, but not be done with the whole investigation of their attempt to affect the outcome of our election.

Hillary’s. Emails. Investigation. Had. Nothing. To. Do. With. The. Investigation. Into. Russian. Interference. In. The. 2016. Election.

Cindy McCain? Can you please come collect your husband?

But you reached the conclusion that there was no reason to bring charges against Secretary Clinton. So you reached a conclusion in the case of Mr. Comey, you, uh, President Comey, uh, excuse me, case of President Trump, you have an ongoing investigation. So you got one candidate who you’re done with, and another candidate that you have a long way to go. Is that correct?

Fool John McCain once, shame on him. Fool him twice … can’t get fooled again! We are beginning to for real worry, and also are feeling a little bit cruel for transcribing this in full.

You just made it clear in what you said, this is a quote “big deal” unquote. I think it’s hard to reconcile in one case you reach a complete conclusion, and the other side, you have not. And you’ve in fact obviously there’s a lot more there, as we know, as you called it, quote, a “big deal.” She’s one of the candidates, but in her case, you say there will be no charges. But in the case of President Trump, the investigation continues.

Meghan McCain? Have you called your dad lately?

Comey pointed out that there was no evidence Hillary’s campaign colluded with Russia, but McCain was still having A Confuse:

So both President Trump and former candidate Clinton are both involved in the investigation, yet one of them you said, there’s gonna be no charges, and the other one, the investigation continues. Well, I think there’s a double standard there, to tell you the truth!

Because the FBI investigation into Hillary was totally different from the FBI investigation into …

Oh fuck it.

Lindsey Graham? Please check on your Senate BFF, as we worry he might be at risk of getting into a car with a stranger who offers him sweet delicious butterscotches.

For what it’s worth, McCain has released a statement saying his questions obviously went over everyone’s heads, and also he shouldn’t stay up past bedtime watching action-packed baseball.

It is a nice statement! It is self-deprecating, and the questions as written make sense! And they have nooooooothing to do with the crazypants above, and hooboy poor old man. WALNUTS!

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  • Randy Riddle

    Well, this is good news for John McCain’s physicians ….

    • And we know Mitch McConnell isn’t going to take away his health insurance.

      • alpacapunchbowl

        He’ll probably try, on the DL.

  • arglebargle

    Mr. McCain’t

  • Jeffocaster in the East

    Oh yes John. Your questions “went over my head”. Great justification for your senile delusional ramblings at a Senate hearing….retire while you don’t have a shred of dignity left.

    • Seek

      The staff worked that up while he was mindlessly babbling. No one wants to look for a new job

  • armed_bears

    Kinda sad, really: He is a good man in decline — to some extent, anyway. But McCain’s 100% more honorable than Trump’s new breed of GOP herpes.

    • pstockholm

      Don’t know why you would say that. In what sense honorable?

      • armed_bears

        Obama = Christian, not muslim
        “Wacko birds”
        Stance on torture vs Bush admin.
        Etc.
        Etc.
        Etc.

        See also, Oct. 26, 1967

    • Seek

      Assumes facts not in evidence. He’s covering for those jack holes and voting their way at a rate of 100%. He’s as “honorable” as they are, which is to say, not honorable at all.

    • OneYieldRegular

      I don’t know if he’s a good man in decline – but I know that he plays one on TV.

  • WotsAllThisThen

    That’s right, John. Now that the campaign is over you don’t have to worry about Hillary’s emails anymore.

  • Cheesus Crust _ Rebel

    That whole episode was sad, pathetic and damn near unwatchable. It made me cringe… I hope someone cares enough about that poor man to get him to a Dr, ASAP.

  • Anna Elizabeth, Tank Grrl

    My Mom died of Dementia and other complications, and I would *not* wish the illness on even a fucking GOPer waste-of-skin like McCain.

    • MynameisBlarney

      Yeah, my mom has it too.
      It is not easy to deal with.

      • BosGrl

        Hugs. It is so stressful for everyone.

    • Wild Cat

      Yes, but his anti-ACA vote will condemn families with dementia sufferers to a greater hell.

      • They should have had the foresight to become US Senators if they wanted to mooch off the public teat.

        • chazmanr

          Or marry an heiress.

    • wide_stance_hubby

      That could not have been easy to watch/deal with. Hugs. My dad’s memory is failing and it is gut-wrenching to tell him the same thing over and over. And he has COPD and lung cancer for the second time in 3 years. Yeah, I can’t snark on Alzheimers either. More hugs!

      • Anna Elizabeth, Tank Grrl

        I was her caretaker for years, and she became more cruel as she got worse. The last I saw her was Mother’s Day 2016, and I got to talk to her on the phone the day she died November 29th.

        • wide_stance_hubby

          If you can stand any more hugs, they’re here for you. My mom died 25 years ago (the day before Mothers Day) and he still cries when he talks about her, which makes me cry, too.

        • grindstone

          Ah, gal, I’m so sorry. My ex’s dad had it and it just amplified his natural meanness, and took away any boundaries he may have had on propriety.

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      I worked for the Alzheimer’s Association for years and yes, it is a horrible thing. Drains the person right out of the shell. My dad died of Parkinson’s complications and that’s probably second-worst for diseases that will wear you down to nothing but, unlike cancer etc, at least without too much physical pain and medical intervention. My sympathies.

      • BosGrl

        I’m sorry GGY. Hugs.

    • BosGrl

      I agree, Anna. Let’s hope it it’s dehydration or low protein or maybe a UTI. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

    • chazmanr

      My grandmother suffers horribly from it and I have absolutely no problem wishing it on just about any member of the GOP. Maybe that makes you a better person, but I am done with showing compassion for those who show none for others.

    • Kateaux

      My mother had some…significant cognitive impairments towards the end of her life. It is heartbreaking watching the person you know disappear bit by bit. I really hope McCain was just having an off day somehow; whatever he is now, he was a bona fide hero.

  • mfp
    • Lambsendbeds

      I can’t believe it’s not butter!

      • OneYieldRegular

        I can’t believe it’s not Butterstick!

        • JMP

          Butterstick! Now that takes me back to the old days of the original Wonkette.

          • FlownΩver

            Right-o! Old guyz at Wonket RULE!

          • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

            Grandpa, tell me the butterstick story again. (Sits at your knee with an adorable puppy face turned up to you.)

        • aureolaborealis

          Is this about Marlon Brando?

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Yo, Cindy, Meghan &etc? Time for you all to stage a family intervention. You don’t want to let him turn into what the Trump kids let Donald turn into FFS.

  • canes_pugnaces

    My mother died of early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. There is no doubt in my mind that he is afflicted. I am not a McCain fan, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. I hope they put him out to pasture soon.

    • Ryan Denniston

      With votes!

      • canes_pugnaces

        He has five years left. He will be drooling on himself and asking for mommy in two.

        • tomamitai

          Leave the man’s sex life out of this! For g-d’s sake he’s a war hero!

          • canes_pugnaces

            Sorry… I got carried away.

    • Jennifer R

      While he already said this was his last term, I think expecting him to last the whole go is kind of cruel at this point.

      • canes_pugnaces

        I don’t think it’s really possible. The one neurological take-away (diagnostic) was the left drifting eye and then a loss of cognitive functioning. Classic.

  • Ryan Denniston

    I’m still a little unclear as to how the Russia story relates to Shirley Sherrod and how she did Benghazi to ACORN. Can anyone help me out?

    • Weird Fishes

      The link you’re looking for is Whitewater. And Teapot Dome. Maybe moving off the gold standard. I dunno.

    • tomamitai

      In vino veritas?

      • OneYieldRegular

        Et tu, Brute?

  • Wild Cat

    I’d like to avoid ageism, so all I can contribute to this conversation is that he was a dumb fuck 60 years ago, too.

    • Explody Brain

      Recognizing and calling out significant cognitive decline in a sitting senator isn’t ageism.

      It’s a patriotic fucking duty.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        Can you imagine where we might be as a nation of someone had done the same with Reagan?

    • Fancy Meau-Faux

      He reminds of my grandpa as he was starting to lose his mind, but before it was totally gone. In my grandpa’s case conversation (no matter the subject) would frequently return to, “What about the damn Mexicans” or “What about the damn Portuguese”.

      I have no idea why my grandpa felt so strongly against the Portuguese, but always found it amusing and weird.

  • tomamitai

    Missed this part because of real life happenings. Didn’t Comey already say it’s not for him to decide if what Trump did was obstruction? What’s the point of asking him again in writing?

    • TheFamilyThalamusPersists

      Walnuts was napping during that statement.

  • Marion in Savannah

    For me watching McCain was a cross between gobsmacking lunacy and horrifying realization that he’s ACTUALLY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE. I think I need a yoooge drink now…

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      And he is still allowed to operate a motor vehicle.

      • Lambsendbeds

        He’s just one errand away from accidentally putting the car into reverse and plowing into a crowd at the farmer’s market like a common terrorist.

        • alwayspunkindrublic

          I mean, the dude set the record for the number of jets he crashed back when he was in the Navy.

  • Boojum

    Staff, covering for the old man.

    • MrTusks

      ayup

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      You just know someone was typing that out while the testimony was going on.

  • Ryan Denniston

    In fairness, McCain was slightly more intelligible than Fox News.

    • The Wanderer

      Not a stretch.

    • Lambsendbeds

      That’s not saying much. Besides, I thought Faux “News” wasn’t covering the Comey hearing. I’m assuming that instead one of the Faux talking “heads” was discussing what to wear when groping your co-workers. Gloves, perhaps, so as not to leave incriminating and unsightly greasy fingerprints.

  • Sen. McCain is just invoking the “all investigations lead to Clinton” clause that is popular among conspiracy nuts and conservative pundits.

    • Marion in Savannah

      Well, everything that isn’t Obama’s fault is hers, so nothing new there.

  • proudgrampa

    Wow. That was one heap of confooozed.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    I think the American people have a whole lot of questions out there, particularly since you just emphasized the role that Russia played.

    Oh, we’ve got questions all right…it’s just that none of them involve an overblown and long-settled email scandal. Got that?

  • ThatGuy

    If Senator McCain doesn’t want his comments to go over our heads, then he should perhaps angle his remarks in a more terrestrial direction.
    http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/019/304/old.jpg

    • mackafritz

      Was he wearing an onion on his belt?

      • The Wanderer

        In his shoes. Helps draw out the toxins.

      • ThatGuy

        Well, that was the style at the time.

  • I was hoping he was going to bring up the Clinton connection to Russia via the shady uranium deal.

    • shivaskeeper

      You have some details on that, right?

      Not CT evidence and details, but actual real evidence from reputable sources.

      • alpacapunchbowl

        Is there any such evidence and details? Because I’ve asked people on the internets for it and the bog-standard response is pretty much “Everybody knows this! Educate yourself!” (with the attendant misspellings and !!11! punctuation and such)

        • shivaskeeper

          That’s pretty much what I expect. This was debunked months and months ago.

          • natoslug

            Which is why Dirk expected the SQUIRREL! crowd to bring it up, I expect. Or hope.

      • I’ve got the suitcase where they did the transfer and the check they paid her in rubbles in with…

    • tomamitai
  • Vincent Ricola

    Ummmmm… sweet delicious butterscotches.

    • Marion in Savannah

      Did you bring enough to share with the whole class?

      • Vincent Ricola

        No, but I’ll send one of my kids out to collect some from that guy who sits in his van up the street from their school. He always has a bunch of them handy.

        • Seek

          Make sure they go look for him in the van down by the river if he isn’t lurking at the school.

  • alwayspunkindrublic

    I just emailed McCain and sent him a letter via USPS. I called him a senile dolt in both. I got the normal email auto-response: “You goddamn kids get off my lawn! And where are my mashed peas?!”

    • baconzgood

      IT’S MY FRISBEE NOW!

  • Ryan Denniston

    Nothing like placing your star act, really, the act you want everyone to go home remembering, at the end, instead of up with all the other opening acts and cover bands. Well done Chairman Burr.

  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    “Mister. . . President Comey. . I wonder if. . . Emailzzz. . . COVFEFE!”

    It’s like the stupid is contagious.

    • Marion in Savannah

      Dementia ain’t pretty to watch.

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        45, McCain. . . Do any of these crooked old white bastards have a decent brain among them?

        • GreyWolfSC

          They have one and share it. You can tell by the words they puke up.

          • mackafritz

            But it’s Abby Normal’s brain.

  • Roni Raven, Undercovfefe Agent
    • Ryan Denniston

      I see “what the fuck?” and “golrammit” on those faces.

    • armed_bears

      Yikes… Rubio…. fake it, at least.

      • Jennifer R

        It looks like he is used to walnuts going off the rails already.

      • OneYieldRegular

        Rubio is so discombobulated that it looks like his nose is trying to pick his finger.

  • JMP

    People of Arizona, maybe it wasn’t a great idea reelecting an 80-year-old to a six-year Senate term?

    • DrBigHead

      Don’t be too hard on us. The heat makes us do a lot of stupid things.

      • JMP

        At least it’s a dry stupid.

        • Lambsendbeds

          I wish that I had more than one upvote to give that remark.

          • JMP

            Thanks, though it’s not one I came up with; can’t remember who I’m copying from now anymore though.

  • SayItWithWookies

    Did nobody mention to McCain that the Hillary email investigation had been going on for years by the time the Trump inquiries started? Just because they were both running for president at the same time doesn’t mean the investigations started at the same time.

    • Vincent Ricola

      That would mean that both sides don’t do it and, according to cable news and russian bots, making that point is unfair? Or something?

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      This is a man who thinks of the Black Sox scandal of 1919 like “it was only yesterday”.

    • Covfefe’s Evil Twin

      Time. How does it fucking work?

    • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

      But they both have investigations with “investigation” in their names! Obviously they’re exactly the same investigation! Why would they name it the same, if they weren’t exactly the same, HENNNNGGG *poopdribble*

    • shivaskeeper

      Don’t try to apply objective reality to this. Walnuts is already confused enough.

    • Maybe inviting someone who doesn’t actually attend your meetings into the inquiry wasn’t a great idea.

  • Didn’t he have a primary challenger this cycle who argued that he was too old for senatoring? This would be a good “I told you so” moment.

  • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

    Annnd Comey already said he wasn’t going to answer that question- that it would be up to Mueller to determine.

  • JMP

    And what about the investigation into bribery by Charles Keating, Sen. McCain?

    • Once&futureFred

      “What does it mean when an Altimeter spins wildly counter-clockwise?”

      • mfp

        $12mil worth of airplane down the drain and a senate seat for life?

    • chazmanr

      “Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to 1990”.

  • Martini Ambassador 🍸

    This is the kind of 11th dimension chess that quite frankly eludes me. Hillary colluded with the Russians to lose the election because she wanted an email about risotto? Did I get that right?

    Clearly, I lack the strong legal mind of Grandpa Walnuts.

    • Once&futureFred

      You’d have to try that Risotto, OMFG! Impeach her!11!! It’s too good for mere mortals to consume!

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      It was all to direct attention away from her child sex ring in the basement of the pizza parlor. Duh!

    • Vincent Ricola

      Hillary colluded with the DEEP STATE who colluded with the russians to lose the election because she wanted an email about risotto and PIZZA MOLESTERS to prove the earth is really flat.

      I don’t have the link handy, but youtube has lots of good videos that explain it.

    • proudgrampa

      The secret is the truffles in the risotto. I think. Maybe.

      • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

        Add in the piquant flavor of unborn babies and you have a risotto to die for.

    • tomamitai

      So does he.

  • baconzgood

    Um….John, you really went off the rails there.

    • proudgrampa
      • Good_Gawd_Yall

        Now I am filled with questions: did somebody film that because they knew the train was going to fall off the bridge? If they didn’t know, why were they filming? Why would the engineer drive the train onto the bridge when you can tell from the final from-the-front shot that there was a gap in the bridge? Is the whole thing faked? And finally, since when does the History Channel show anything not WW2 related?

        • baconzgood

          Now you know how baconz feels every time the GOP unveils it’s budget.

        • proudgrampa

          Hey. I just bring the youtube clips over. I’m not responsible for sourcing this stuff! ;-)

        • therblig
  • Mr. Blobfish

    Plus, he asked his last question twice, just before time was mercifully called.

  • UnsaltedSinner
  • Ryan Denniston

    Hey y’all, it could be innocuous. Maybe he was day drinking and playing wingnut bingo like the rest of us!

  • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

    Uh, I would say staying up late to watch a Diamondbacks-Padres game is prima facie evidence that not all the lights are on.

    • Seek

      and every night. Padres are pretty damn terrible.

      Again, for the 20th year in a row

    • tomamitai

      Was it a game or a couple of snakes fucking?

  • Anna Rompage

    His behavior reminded me stongly of when both my grandfather, and mother started showing the signs of the onset of dementia…

    It’ really kind of sad, for him, for his family, and for us seeing that he is an active rep.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    McCain: “President Comey . . . Um, Senator Trump . . . wait . . . apple pizza green chair lightbulb emails.”
    Reichwing media: “Clearly the president did nothing wrong, as you can see from the testimony and from the Senator’s cogent use of nouns.”

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      If he says it in the right order, the Winter Soldier has to do his bidding. So obviously, he was confusing Mr. Comey for Bucky Barnes.

  • Covfefe’s Evil Twin

    Wow. I thought I was tripping when I watched that live.

    Watching it again I’m now wondering about the mushrooms in my salad.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Ssssh. This is just the Morel Majority at work.

  • MrTusks

    I first found my Wonkette during the 2008 election coverage, when the battle cry of “WALNUTS” was in high gear. This brought me back to those salad days.

  • Carpe Vagenda

    Here’s a question I ask myself: self (I ask), do you suppose that when her very rich daddy found out that the already-married-when-he-started-pursuing-her John McCain and his daughter were getting married, his lawyers prepared a pre-nuptual agreement addressing the possibility that the future Senator might not be a completely faithful fellow?

    Because that would explain a lot.

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      Cheating on her wouldn’t be wise on his part. Cindy’s family was associated with the old-time Cactus Mafia in Az. They blew up people in cars for shit like that.

      • tomamitai

        Plus she’s a Martian in a lady suit.

        • alwayspunkindrublic

          Raging pill addict, also too.

          • alpacapunchbowl

            Maybe there’s a logical explanation for all of this- she’s been sharing with him.
            “Honey, just have a couple of these. Take the edge off”

    • mfp

      ummm…not quite following (day-drunk)…do you mean the party of the first part and the party of the second part and the sanity clause and there aint no sanity clause and the 3rd stage syphillis clause?….eeeh

  • Mavenmaven

    All that was missing was Clint Eastwood and his empty chair.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    I don’t buy his bullshit excuse and I don’t think he’s suffering from dementia. What I think he came to the hearing to do was to try to buy wiggle room for Dolt 45 by attacking Hillary. The fact that he came off as an addled Russian stooge is alarming. I won’t be one bit surprised when we find out that he has taken money from Russia, as have many, if not most, of the repukes who are trying so hard to quash this whole investigation.

    • Vincent Ricola

      End of the show squirrel?

    • Mysterious Masked Wrestler

      Oh, he was 100% going for the old “but her emails!”, which is a variation of the “but what about the liberals?” diversion they pull out any time a Republican is called out on some nefarious shit.

    • Mehmeisterjr

      All this to defend Trump, a man who repeatedly denigrated him and mocked his years in captivity.

      Does Vladdy have a pee-hooker tape hanging over all of these guys?

  • Jgb979

    “Watching the diamondbacks games” is weird code for a massive intracranial aneurysm.

    Lindsay Graham please collect your man.

    • Notreelyhelping

      “Yeah, prep the OR. We’re bringing in another guy’s who’s been up all night watching the Diamondbacks game. No, we don’t have a name yet. We’re calling him Mr. Pyle.”

  • Yr. Gma

    I found the thread! Yes, it’s sad when the Oldz start showing their age.

  • Mavenmaven

    I’m surprised he didn’t stand up on his chair, drop his pants and yell BENGHAZI!!!

    • BosGrl

      He pretty much did.

    • Iron Monkey

      Might have been less embarrassing.

    • Jgb979

      I’m sure whoever is responsible for dressing him in the morning ropes those pants off tight.

      Otherwise they would be down every appearance.

    • Vincent Ricola

      Hey! Are you watching me through my microwave?

  • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

    Nope. Sorry Codgey McSustaCal, if you are claiming that you had a point during that time, and that you weren’t just an old man rambling on about how the soup in your day was thicker and heartier, or whatever, then you were trying to throw up a fucking massive both-siderist fake smoke screen that would rival most Hollywood special effects firms.

    • tomamitai

      The soup WAS better, the candy bars WERE bigger, and the sody pop tasted better AND the bubbles didn’t burn my throat!

      • MizzMazz

        And we could get candy cigarettes, to be just like mommy and daddy!

        • tomamitai

          We could get REAL cigarettes! The guy at the news stand sold us loosies at a 5x markup, no ID needed.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        No, lie, I went on a rant about how much Hot Pockets suck now and a bunch of friends chimed in about Dinty Moore being better in the past. None of us is over 40.

  • Les Appentis De la résistance

    I think the problem today is government trying to do too much at the same time. One investigation at a time, fellas. You can investigate Trump once you’ve finished with Hillary.

  • DerrickWildcat

    You will never understand how a Maverick operates.

    • JMP

      With lots of sexual tension between him and Val Kilmer’s Iceman?

  • Iron Monkey

    Who put Dumbo on the Senate Intelligence Committee, even if it’s an honorary appointment?

    • BMW

      I suspect he waundered into the wrong hearing and Sen. Burr decided to just roll with it.

    • Persistent Demme

      I wonder if he was put there by the GOP to provide a “Squirrel!”.
      (They sure are nasty enough.)

  • mrFawkes

    I used to ride one of those feed the quarter ride the pony in front of the market as a wee lad. I believe that old electric horse named ‘Maverick” will come to life and win the Kentucky Derby before John McCain ever does anything Mavericky.

  • Reince Pubis
    • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

      god i miss the 90’s.

  • baconzgood

    This is a simple legal argument of “yes, she was raped but why didn’t you file assault charges on her for kicking and scratching him?”

    It sickens Baconz when this logic is presented to him.

  • Marion in Savannah

    Sort of half OT, but here’s Charlie Pierce’s take on Comey’s testimony:

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55541/comey-hearing-renegade-presidency/

  • Cogswell – in a mirror darkly

    GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

  • OneYieldRegular

    Every once in a while, I manage to convince myself that a significant percentage of the legislative branch’s problems can be traced to John McCain. Today is one of those days.

    • MrTusks

      This whole goddamn thing can be traced back to Walnuts. The republicans in power today were a fringe group until Sarah Palin got the spotlight and told them that outright stupidity and hate can be successful, too.

  • Bill D. Burger

    Feinstein looking at McCain as Mumbles questions Comey: “Oh my God! THAT’S the effect of choosing Sarah Palin and having to live with it. So tragic.”

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB0MaH9V0AAgi5h.jpg

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      I like the guy behind her: “Are you hearing this? Am I having a stroke, or is it him?”

    • schmannity

      Is that the Saudi orb being palmed?

      • proudgrampa

        It’s a conspiracy! They’ve infiltrated the Senate chambers!

    • Anna Rompage

      I was thinking maybe she was having a sentient moment and wondering if she came off sounding as bad as John…

  • BigCSouthside

    Right wing are fucking good at spreading messaging. Twitter already lit up with “Comey leaked classified info”. Which of course is false, but will become the new “Hillary had them stand down at Benghazi” for these dumbfucks

    • Vincent Ricola

      Well, Donald just paid for millions of russian bots and he expects them to do their job.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Say what you will about McCain’s state of health, he’s never publicly implied that he’d fuck his daughter.

    Sorry, trying to think of something positive to say.

    • baconzgood

      It was a nice suit.

    • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

      And no matter what we say or how dumb he gets, no one can take away the fact that he was a war hero.

    • MrTusks

      I would bravely take that position in his place.

      Too gross?

    • BMW

      In fairness, though, I’d fuck his daughter.

      • tomamitai

        In fairness to who; you, her, or…?

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        I think most of us have at least pondered a filthy evening with Boobs McCain.

  • Everrett Fanuelli
    • Bill D. Burger

      And a moment later his pacemaker shorted and he incinerated four people to his right.

      https://i2.wp.com/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4502217/mccain.gif

      • Christopher Story

        John McCain is a Sith Lord!

        • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

          Sith Lord

          Dyslexia can be challenging, I nkow.

          • tomamitai

            Tho can etheth and fornth for thome.

      • baconzgood

        I did a spit take on that one.

    • Herman Munster moved more naturally.

      • Yr. Gma

        To be fair, he is disabled from arm-breaking in Vietnam and can’t move all that well. But he’s still stupid.

        • Yeah, I know. I just don’t feel like cutting any slack to these party-over-country assholes anymore. They’re monsters.

          • Yr. Gma

            I know. It’s just I think making fun of a disability is a little too much like Trump.

  • Bill D. Burger
  • elviouslyqueer

    In the South, when our elders get to be “of a certain age,” we typically give them a toddy full of Xanax and vodka and set them up in a rocking chair on the front porch so they can wave at passers-by. And we bless their hearts. A LOT.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Sadly, too, we’re all out of ice floes.

    • proudgrampa

      That’s about the best reason I can think of for moving to the South: Xanax and Vodka. Wheee!!!

    • alpacapunchbowl

      I didn’t care for Xanax, all it did was make me feel mildly stoned for a half hour and did jack shit for my anxiety. When my time comes, can I have some good bourbon and actual weed instead? I’m willing to smoke it out of a corn cob pipe for peak folksiness, and I’ll knit little sweaters for squirrels.
      Deal?

      • elviouslyqueer

        You had me at weed-infused bourbon.

        • alpacapunchbowl

          I like your style, EQ.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        Combine Xanax with a little bubbly. That’s how I flew from SF to Dubai. Out cold for at least 13 hours.

    • marxalot

      “Uh-huh, is that right, let me get you another lemonade… Billy! Check granpappy’s secret stash for buckshot, sonuvabitch figured out the combo lock on the gun safe again and I can’t stall him much longer. Joey Sue! More lemonade, and for the love of god, don’t skimp on the vodka this time.”

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      This is exactly why I want to retire in the South. Please send me your address. Wait, do you have a porch?

  • Gayer Than Thou

    It sounds like John “Loser” McCain was trying to say that if Comey reached the conclusion that there was no basis for prosecuting Hillary, then he should probably reach the same conclusion with regard to Trump. Which is just dumb.

    • Mpeg

      I knew there was dumbing-down in amurica as a result of Trumpf — but I didn’t think the dumbing down was that infectious?!

      • tomamitai

        Fast too, also.

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      It’s also a terrific talking point for the reichwing.

    • Lance Thrustwell

      Well of course he should, because Hillary. And all things are the same, and nothing matters, and Freedom! And tax cuts. And where did I leave my pen, I just had it…

  • zagnutz2

    He is not well.

  • schmannity

    McCain hasn’t bombed this badly since the Forrestal.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

      Ah. I see. McCain wants both sides to be investigated for possible collusion with Russia’s tampering with our election….WTF indeed.

  • CogitoErgoBibo
  • schmannity

    Palin should have stepped in and finished the questions as he intended.

  • Bill D. Burger
    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Hey, I resemble that remark!

  • My only surprise is that this wasn’t the line of questioning used by all the GOP Senators.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Is there need of a clean up crew in the Senate Hearing chamber?

    Depends.

    • proudgrampa

      I see what you did there.

  • therblig

    sadly, global warming will result in a shortage of the ice floes needed to remedy this situation.

    • proudgrampa

      I know, right? That’s how I was kinda hoping to go…

  • beatbort

    OK, everyone just accept this once and for all:
    Sen. John McCain is useless. Always has been, always will be.
    Stop thinking he, or Magnolia Graham, will ever actually do anything. It will save any further disappointment.

    • DrBigHead

      Yes. At the end of the day they vote lock-step with the rest of the republican bastards.

      • alpacapunchbowl

        So goddam infuriating.

      • tomamitai

        “republican bastards” is redundant.

      • cmd resistor

        I wonder why they even bother to act like they aren’t going to do it. Who do they think they are fooling?

        • Good_Gawd_Yall

          You know that whole “Lucy holding the football” thing where Charlie Brown falls for it every. single. time? that’s on a feedback loop in their heads, where they = Lucy, Democrats = Charlie Brown, and honesty, upright patriotism, fairness, and the hope that a repuke will finally do something right = the football.

          • cmd resistor

            As I typed that question, I did have the Lucy thing pop into my head. And I have to admit I have fallen for it before, more from Graham than McCain. But I think I am finally cured.

    • SnarkON

      “Magnolia Graham” for the win.

      • AnnieGetYerFun

        Best thing I have heard all day.

  • alwayspunkindrublic

    I hope he’s safely back in the day room at the memory care home. D-backs game and Taco Thursday tonight!

  • JD Mulvey

    Not sure what the issue is, Evan. I have to assume you’ve heard Republicans before today?

  • Vincent Ricola

    Meanwhile, that douche Jason Miller is on CNN right now saying completely insane things and no one asks if he is having a stroke.

    • BigCSouthside

      Jason Miller is a bloated tick in a suit. He is a useless pundit

      • laughingnome

        He looks like the elf foreman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

      • tomamitai

        There are useful pundits?

    • cmd resistor

      I saw him doing the same on CNN this morning before adequate amounts of coffee. The only thing I really remember is he has a really round head.

      • Vincent Ricola

        And sky god forgot to give him a neck to balance it all out.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Which one is he again? White people names are all the same.

      • Vincent Ricola

        He’s the fluffy one with the big round head and the evil spock goatee.

  • La forza del resistino

    John McCain, Arizona’s gift to Congress when 30 years of Barry Goldwater just wouldn’t do.

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      There’s been a lot of revisionism about Barry around here in the last few years. Don’t buy it. He was a vicious right wing zealot who was prepared to incinerate the planet.

      • La forza del resistino

        He is the namesake of the Goldwater Rule of hands off Psychoanalysis. Lately being challenged.

  • Noxious Resistance

    It saddens me that my senator is an incoherent old grump. I pity him and every AZ retiree who will keep him in office until he croaks.

  • William
    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      As rich as his wife is the lawn’s probably big enough that we could.

    • tomamitai

      Which one? Didn’t he forget how many houses he owns back in 2008?

      • Yr. Gma

        All of them.

        • Jennaratrix

          All of them, KATIE. Come on, Yr. Gma; overuse those Wonkette inside jokes! ;-)

          • Yr. Gma

            I was up late watching the Razorbacked Diamonds.

          • Jennaratrix

            Forgiven.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    Last sentence of Charles Pierce’s excellent discussion of this: “But, taken as a whole, the two days represent a powerful indictment of a renegade and corrupt presidency of which we do not yet know the worst. That’s going to be discussed only in private, for now, anyway.”

    • mfp

      yeeeaaahhhh…that ‘in private’ part…wtf?…the final proof that ‘of, by and for…’ is, and always has been, total fucking bullshit

  • BMW
  • Bill D. Burger
  • DerrickWildcat

    You need to understand McCain. Half of him wants to stick an ice pick in Trump’s face and the other half is wondering what ever happened to Zeppo.

    • Everrett Fanuelli

      Don’t forget Gummo too

  • Mpeg

    If only hi peer Republicans would halt obstructing Lizzie Warren’s bipartisan initiative, McCain might have a nice new hearing aid to go along with his gingko-biloba tea.

  • William
  • baconzgood

    If he’s not separating 2 distinct and independent investigations he might have well just of asked about Clinton’s role in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

    The FBI didn’t investigate her part in that either.

    • TJ Barke

      Pretty sure Hillary shot down Amelia Earhardt too.

      • Skwerl the Taco Hunter

        Only because they are the same person!

        • Yr. Gma

          Hillary and Lindbergh’s baby?

          • Shanzgood

            Nobody has ever seen them together. I’m just sayin.

  • susan_g

    I never could understand why Walnuts! would carry water for cheeto after the way he insulted his war record during the campaign but now I understand–McCain doesn’t remember.

    • Everrett Fanuelli

      Because despite the facade in the media, McCain is a punkass bitch

    • shivaskeeper

      Because he has long forgotten every lesson taught to him at the Naval Academy and every lesson learned while in service.

      He has traded selfless service for pure selfishness.

    • NellCote71

      Do you think the guy who thought Sarah Palin was qualified has any discernment?

    • natoslug

      He’s a Republican — Party over Country is the first rule of R club.

    • tomamitai

      The lesson he learned after what they did to him in South Carolina in 2000 was “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”.

  • Lance Thrustwell

    I know what he means. I also make better sense when I write than when I speak.

    And from that, you can safely assume my personal speaking style is somewhere between vacant gibbering and Tourette’s with rabies.

    • Rick Hill

      I am more fortunate in that I make little enough sense, either way.

      • Lance Thrustwell

        Could you rephrase that? {begins barking}.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      I am absolutely the same. Of course, I decided never to run for office.

  • JustDon’tSayCovfefe
  • Notreelyhelping

    Cut McCain a break. There’s this moment between feeling a little funny and where the acid really kicks in, and anybody can get a little…drifty in between ‘well that looks a little weird’ and ‘JESUS GODS THE FUCKING WALLS ARE FOLDING INTO THEMSELVES!’

    • mfp

      ‘cept…there’s that one thing…youknow, that he didnt actually eat the brown acid

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    John McCain’s testimony be like:

    http://i.imgur.com/MDPBcMT.gif

  • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

    Here’s the thing that really sucks, though: Trump could roast a live child on a spit on the White House lawn, and then he could eat it, and Paul Ryan’s House will not impeach him.

    • ariel_gee_398

      I used to think that was true as long as it was a poor child, preferably non-white. At this point, I think Paul Ryan wouldn’t blink even if it were his own child up on the spit.

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      Ryan repeated again today that Trump is essentially only a wayward child who just doesn’t know the rules and can’t find his binky.

    • SnarkON

      Mmm, you’re making me hungry.

    • Everrett Fanuelli

      Shorter Republicans: “Yeah he’ll destroy this country, but he’ll sign any shit we pass.”

      • Ninja0980

        And put our far right judges on the courts.

        • DrBigHead

          Tax cuts!!!

        • House0fTheBlueLights

          This^^^^^^

      • Trip Space-Parasite

        Signing that shit is a major part of HOW he’ll destroy the country!

    • Lance Thrustwell

      Dick Cheney would ask for an invitation so he could pleasure himself discreetly during the roasting.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      And his lawyer would say how the live footage of Trump eating a roasted child makes him feel vindicated.

    • Jennaratrix

      I hate how true this is.

  • Ginzberg

    Dang. Give McCain credit for a lucid, sensible written follow-up. Bad days happen to everybody; he’s a good man to admit it.

    • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

      There’s no way he wrote that. Aid maybe, but not the maverick.

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      McCain’s entire political career has been a bad day.

    • Granny Sprinkles

      When are we to expect a lucid, sensible written follow-up to Sarah Palin?

      • Yr. Gma

        That’s my question.

    • timpundit

      I credit him with a staff fast enough to wipe his chin, and make excuses for his ramblings.

    • Mpeg

      I’m not seeing the sensible part. He says his questioning “went over our heads,” laying the fault with Everyone Else Except Him.
      Diamondbacks fan or no: the eve of an important event as these hearings, should’ve been of enough significance to keep one’s priorities and preparation for one’s role in order. McCain’s constituents might’ve related to him on a campaign trail quipping about sports loyalties but not when he’s going to be in the public eye regarding this high-stakes level of discourse.
      The rest of it sounds like “I’m fine with my question and I Intend To Keep Asking It (in writing or whatever), harrumph!” Go home, Mr. McCain, you’re drunk time’s up.

    • thixotropic jerk

      Lucid and sensible? Admit what? Did we read the same statement? Blaming the public for not understanding his rambly ramblyness (my questions went over their heads) and then trying to pass his BS off on late night baseball? Apologist much? This is about an investigation into the preznit of the USofA for realness!!! How about you bring your A Game Senator Mavrix when the fucking country is at stake? But let me guess, you are a proponent of the “few bad apples” and “lone wolf” school of BS excusifying?

    • Art Haack

      If McCain wrote that himself then I’m the Tsar of All the Russias.

  • Mysterious Masked Wrestler

    “You just made it clear when you said “what the fuck”, which means there is incomprehension regarding my questions, which, again, to quote you, you didn’t know “what the fuck” they meant. But in the case of Mr. Comey’s question, Mr. Comey, Mr. Senator, the other senator, you said, you didn’t say “what the fuck”, but you answered the question without any signs of bafflement. I think what I’m getting at, want I want to point out, is, huh, there is a double standard there.”

    • Lance Thrustwell

      What the fuck?

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      Thank you, Humphrey.

    • House0fTheBlueLights

      Calling Hairstrike Alpha! We need an impersonation-down. Who does who better!

  • Ninja0980
    • Vincent Ricola

      The line of questioning was too sophisticated for us plebs because he was sleepy from staying up all night watching sportsball. Duh.

      • That’s exactly what I thought when I first saw his testimony.

        We have too pointy headiness to understand his genius.

        Good to have it ‘McSplained’ to me!

    • elviouslyqueer

      When you’ve lost the Diamondbacks, you’ve lost America, Walnuts.

    • Wild Cat

      The only Diamondback he ever saw was a hooker face-down in the Mayflower Hotel with an exotic tattoo on her arse.

  • gingerland62

    I thought he was having a stroke, honestly. I yelled “is there a doctor in the house at the TV”.

    • tomamitai

      That was the Senate, not the House!

  • Mike

    1st. McCain is not on this committee, why is he present and asking questions…?
    2nd. Did McCain suffer a head injury last night…? Not kidding, he sounded senile or loopy.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Gramps just wandered in off the street, and they felt like humoring him?

    • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

      Since McCain serves as Chair of the Armed Services Committee, he is considered an ex officio member of the Intel committee (which means he can participate in hearings but holds no voting power).

  • Msgr_MΩment

    35 hours since a DJT twitt. Did someone accidentally drop his twatt out the airplane window?

    • GreenGoldSharpie

      They locked it in a safe and sank it in the Potomac.

      Trump is trying to recruit Sessy to take a scuba dive to get it.

    • Anna Rompage

      I think they likely have him in an induced coma right about now…

      • Msgr_MΩment

        Nothing like a massage and long, golden shower to set him right.

      • tomamitai

        I could go for one of those about now.

    • Vincent Ricola

      The lawyers threatened to quit if he didn’t stop trying to sneak his phone out of the locked briefcase.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      They keep releasing statements about how Trump is doing the work he always does and was elected to do. I assume that this means his staff found him a Muslim Mexican to scream at for a few hours.

      • Three Finger Salute

        Or they locked him in a Faraday Cage.

        LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!

    • Jennaratrix

      They probably turned off the wifi and data and let him THINK he was twitting. Twittering. Tweeting. Whatever.

      • tomamitai

        Or they used a stingray device.

        • Jennaratrix

          How cool would that be? Seriously, barring something like this, I don’t know how they kept him from tweeting. What I wouldn’t give for the conversations in that room to leak…

      • Three Finger Salute

        They put a signal jammer up his ass under the desk?

    • Kateaux

      More like someone “accidentally” threw it under a passing steamroller…

  • OddMan

    OT ish kinda.
    Calls for Trump to testify under oath. That should be fun. Donald J’s mendacity is pathological. Like one of his friends said, “Trump will lie to you about what time it is just for practice.”

    And Trump may be a big enough fool to think this is his chance to clear himself, he will not be able to control his malignant narcissism.
    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/872880184755720192

    • Wild Cat

      “Under Oath? Will her legs be spread? Is she into golden showers?”

    • BigCSouthside

      There’s no way any of his handlers let him do that, right?

      • OddMan

        I don’t think he is handling very well right now.

      • Jamoche

        He’ll just fire anyone who tries to tell him what to do.

        • BigCSouthside

          Also…..

          OMFG PLEASE PUT HIM UNDER OATH! I doubt he could get through ” state your name for the record” without lying

          Then again his shifty lawyers would probably just have him go fifth amendment on everything

  • Roni Raven, Undercovfefe Agent
    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      Ah, Christ.

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      Not really OT. Benghazi #9 is in the queue, right?

    • Jennaratrix

      Maybe he’ll chair a hearing and keep Trump sitting there for 11 hours without a bathroom break. Hey, it could happen!

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      I think the backlash to Walnuts’ questions may make it tougher for him to schedule another Benghazi hearing.

    • laughingnome

      No Chaffetz

    • Yr. Gma

      Are we shocked?

  • Riley Whodat Venable

    This man his a hero. Remember he is the last Naval Aviator to set an Aircraft Carrier on fire.

  • Mike

    Wow, that was an embarrassing exchange. The world must laughing their asses off at us. What a senile old fool.

  • GreenGoldSharpie

    You just know McCain is going to show up to a Senate session in his PJs and house slippers one day.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      I’m fine with him showing up in his bathrobe and Depends as long as he can still ask a coherent question.

      • natoslug

        STILL?

  • GHERKINS OF RESTIVENESS!

    His questions went “over our heads??”

    At this point, someone should probably check to find out whether Mister Magoo here still knows the difference between the baseball team and actual diamonback snakes.

  • Everrett Fanuelli

    JOHN MCCAIN NEEDS SOME MILK!

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      and some of them Lorna Doones.

    • timpundit

      AND RIBBON CANDY!

      • MizzMazz

        From the dish at grandma’s house, where you pick up one piece and they all come with it.

        • Shanzgood

          And someone accidentally ashed in it.

          • MizzMazz

            EW! You’re right! My dad did that! You’ve brought forth a suppressed memory!

        • Courser_Resistance

          That crap was easy to pass up. It always felt like a cheat to me.

  • Jennaratrix

    McCain’s questions went over his own head. I for serious feel bad for him; and we’re all going to get old some day (hopefully, I guess?), too. We can spare a little sympathy for ol’ Maverick; shine on, you crazy diamond.

    • laughingnome

      Upfist for compassion. And Pink Floyd reference.

      • Jennaratrix

        Compassion is what we’ve got that the Rs don’t. I won’t let them take that away.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      I understand the sentiment, and would generally agree, but this fool went out of his way to show up for no other purpose than to protect the Presidency of the most dangerously unqualified individual to ever sit in the Oval Office.

      • Jennaratrix

        I’d be more upset about it if I thought it would work. 1) McCain was so incoherent that he did more harm (to Trump) than good; and 2) That motherfucker Trump is going down, and every Rethug trying to protect him is going down with him. I firmly believe that, and it’s keeping me sane. And able to express sympathy for someone like McCain.

    • Shanzgood

      The tragedy is that he’s yet another old wildly incompetent white guy still in power.

      • Jennaratrix

        I hate how true this is, too.

        • Shanzgood

          Sadly, while we’re waiting for them to die off, they’re inflicting damage. And it’s taking so long that NEW ones keep getting elected.

          • Aaron Wise

            Hillz 2020!

      • Aaron Wise

        That’s not his fault

        • Shanzgood

          I know. That IS the tragic part.

    • Three Finger Salute

      There’s a minimum age to become a representative (25), senator (30) or president (35). I think there needs to be a max retirement age too. Otherwise you get Colonel Kurtz nodding off and rambling incoherently, the pre-evolutionary orangutan tweeting incovfeferently, and Stormfront Thurmond the Aryan Centenarian dying in office and whistling Dixie Confederately.

      Remember how smoothly things went when we had a 50-ish blah guy? Well, except for the whole obstructing a blah guy thing. At least he wasn’t keeling over in the Oval Office or spouting off conspiracy theories.

  • mrFawkes

    McCain had the old Stubabaker floored to 25mph in a 75 mile an hour zone with his turn singal flashing.

    • Poly_Ester

      I think that McCain is more a Nash Rambler than a powerful, sleek Studebaker. Unless you are making a play on words that went over my head. I have the misfortune of being born in the same millennium at the Maverick.

  • Ezio
  • UncleTravelingMatt

    This is a PR nightmare. Time to invite everyone over to the ol’ Tire Swing.

  • Three Finger Salute

    Johnny, are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK, Johnny?

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    The title of this post made me giggle-snort. “Do you need to find a policeman or a grownup?” heeheehee

  • Mildred Broxon

    …send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

    McCain gave me a real chill this morning. I’m 73. Of course, I’m not a Republican senator, so probably have a lot more brain remaining to me.

  • potrzebie

    Shades of Emily Litella! Next thing you know he’ll be railing about flea erections in China!

    • Art Haack

      …never mind.

  • IdiokraticDrumpfenResistance

    OT: Ted Cruz – “I’m not done bullshitting you yet!”https://twitter.com/cspan/status/872904279027265538

    • MizzMazz

      Dear me, that music.

    • Vincent Ricola

      Goddess works in mysterious ways.

    • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

      Please clap?

    • Ryan Denniston

      A man oughta recognize when he’s probably been saved from himself. I would have liked to hear point #2, probably something about Trump.

    • elviouslyqueer

      Ted Cruz, making cringeworthy and awkward a thing since 1975.

    • BeachBum

      Lyin’ Ted is Reason No. 127 I’m thankful to not be living in Texas.

  • RugzYaBurnt

    Remember back in November-January when a bunch of centrist Pollyannas were trying to reassure us all, “Oh, it’ll be ok! ‘centrist’ Republicans like Mitt Romney and John McCain will protect us from Trump!”

    Yeah, those people are super fucking stupid.

  • Notreelyhelping

    In all seriousness, it reminded me of seeing B.B. King when he could still hit a lick, but he spent most of his time introducing another rambling, pointless anecdote with, “Now, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen….”

  • Crystalclear12

    Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth.

  • YoBunnyBunny

    I wasn’t watching the hearing, but I was following the live commentary by the folks over at lawfare. Just following along and then all of sudden…
    https://lawfareblog.com/liveblog-former-fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-senate-intelligence-committee

    Quinta Jurecic:
    McCain is up.

    Quinta Jurecic:
    McCain asks why Comey reached different conclusions re Clinton investigation vs not going public about Russia investigation.

    Quinta Jurecic
    Comey: Clinton investigation was closed. Russia was ongoing.

    Quinta Jurecic
    McCain is making some unclear point about Clinton and Russia. Not obvious what he’s talking about.

    Benjamin Wittes
    John McCain seems very confused right now.

    Benjamin Wittes
    McCain seems to have a deep confusion between the Clinton email investigation and the Russia investigation.

    Jane Chong
    McCain seems to feel both investigations were not really “over” despite Comey’s decision to treat and denominate one as such.

    The only senator that they couldn’t even summarize…

    • Ryan Denniston

      Probably watching Fox right before.

  • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

    I get mentally stuttered like that all the time. It shows in here. I
    guess the difference in my mind is that I am not in charge of anyone and
    what I do and say really doesn’t matter at all. It’s an uncomfortable
    truth, but we all need the reigns taken away from us every now and then,
    I’ve gotten bad enough to be 5150’d in the past and I still can’t drive
    a car or handle my finances.

    I sympathize. Hell, I even
    empathize. Still, I’d rather believe that people who care about me are
    there to step in and keep me from making a fool out of myself.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      In all seriousness, I imagine he is really tough to talk down. I can picture Cindy and Megz trying to tell him to call in sick, and him stomping out the door without pants while shouting “I AM A WAR HERO, DAMMIT!” or something.

      • Pre-Existing Condition Jack

        I bet. I imagine it’s harder to own up to it when you’re in advanced age as well. If it’s not some chronic condition, it may go completely ignored or even just strike out of the blue. I really do hope he’s not suffering.

  • Michael R

    I thought it was Don Rickles doing a bit .,

  • CogitoErgoBibo

    LOL I do so love the A.V. Club. And copyediting. Because I’m weird.
    https://twitter.com/ellembee/status/872914223491411968

    • Anna Rompage

      Seeing that no reputable lawyer with work for him due to the fear of getting stiffed on the bill, I am not shocked one little bit…

    • The Wanderer

      Holy crap. I had guessed that it was written by an intern, but most of the content was derived from Comey’s opening statement as it was released yesterday. Even with additions and deletions required due to Comey’s live testimony, couldn’t they have made a better effort?

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        It’s a hot mess. No doubt about it.

      • Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot

        I have a feeling whoever got stuck with this gig figured they could half-ass it since His Fraudulency will contradict them around 3am.

    • Yr. Gma

      Ah, memories…

    • Jennaratrix

      Loving copyediting is weird? Awesome! I’m getting to be weird!

    • MizzMazz

      I love me some red pen. Now where’s the “See me after class.”?

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        I use newspaper-style blue pencil on the job. Red is too much like yelling at the people with whom I work and makes them cry.

        • MizzMazz

          Also, the blue pencil doesn’t show up in copies, or at least if didn’t back in my printing days. But I totally get it, fewer tears, better working conditions for all ;)

          • CogitoErgoBibo

            We had the opposite problem on the copier. Red didn’t show up, but blue did. Possibly red pen would have. We were to use pencils, so blue pencil it was. These days, a color copier solves it all.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      There is nothing better than watching them try to escape ridicule by inviting mockery.

    • armed_bears

      I sometimes have Kate Turabian fantasies…. And we’ll always have Chicago (Manual of Style).

  • Lulu Mac
  • OddMan

    Really really OT
    There is at least one vending machine in Moscow where you can by ‘likes’ for your selfies. Capitalism at its best.

    https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/872905528028090368

    • tomamitai

      Looks like they’re almost ready for the 2020 election!

    • MizzMazz

      Do those guys come with them? I have two dollars!

  • Ms.MLG on Maui

    The man may have lost it, but it’s funny how his obsession with smearing Hillary Clinton remains strong and clear in his mind.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      . . . and ^this^ is why I will be merciless in my mockery of the doddering piece of shit.

      • CindyinEncinitas

        Really, properly flattered, you could get him to do just about anything.

        • Roni Raven, Undercovfefe Agent

          I read that as flattened.

  • Electriq

    I thought it was nice of the republicans to include him on the panel. His reasoned, well-thought out line of questioning was like a breath of fresh air escaping from the sagging tires of a 1950s model clown car that had no brakes, no steering wheel, and was rolling ever so slowly backwards off a cliff.

  • Ryan Denniston

    Given that Obummer was his opponent in 2008, I can’t figure out the Clinton hostility, unless he doesn’t remember 2008. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  • Roni Raven, Undercovfefe Agent
    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Statler libelz!

    • MizzMazz

      But these guys were funny, erudite and coherent. Two of my favorite Muppets.

  • kareemachan

    No way he wrote that “explanation”.

  • Robbertjan Brandenburg

    I my honest opinion someone of his age having endured such heavy wounds of war and torture in particular should not hold such a high office in senate any longer.

  • potrzebie

    McCain is one that prior to 2000, I wouldn’t have voted for, but wouldn’t have had a problem if he was elected President. But then after he lost the SC primary because Rove had people call dozens of phone-in radio shows the day before and claim that he’d fathered an illegitimate black child (he had adopted a child from India) and he just took it, without standing up for himself at all, I completely lost respect for him.
    Then he kissed Bush in ’03, then Sarah Palin.
    It’s like he sold his soul.

    • Three Finger Salute

      Forgot about that whole thing. My my, the birtherism runs strong among cons, doesn’t it. From Kenyagate to Castrogate.

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