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fuflans's avatar

you just KNEW there was a bagger at the bottom of this.

always is.

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fuflans's avatar

<i>In case you missed that: The FBI is investigating harassment that’s connected to the director of the CIA having an affair, and one of its officers is stomping around Congress wearing a tin foil hat, telling Eric Cantor about the big conspiracy to keep the Kenyan Marxist in office.</i>

pretty brilliantly sums up america ca. 2012

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bobbert's avatar

Well, I don't know where Callyson is, but I've said this before:

Oh, for fuck's sake.

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PubOption's avatar

Note to editors - your hagiographers need to be hags.

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PubOption's avatar

50 shades of olive drab?

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PsycWench's avatar

I have a theory that somehow all three of them found themselves back in high school.

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PsycWench's avatar

The 1980's band Bongwater said it best with their title track, "The Power Of Pussy".

I tried to link the video but you have to sign in to watch it and I was too lazy.

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malsperanza's avatar

"It was [Director of National Intelligence] Clapper who told the White House late Wednesday, with Obama learning about it a day later. A senior administration official defended the decision not to notify the president earlier, saying that staff 'needed to get their arms around' the matter before briefing Obama." ~ <a href="http://www.independent.co.u..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...">http://www.independent.co.u...

So to speak.

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Lot_49's avatar

Maybe they were exchanging passages from their favorite translations of Iliad.

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PsycWench's avatar

How could well-educated and apparently worldly people send incriminating information via email? EMAIL? Especially when the CIA was involved? Did no one learn anything from the hacking of Sarah Palin?

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MonkeyMotion's avatar

And we're <i>losing</i> the war in Afghanistan? How can that be?

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Ennui There Yet's avatar

Somewhere in New York Anthony Wiener silently weeps.

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Lot_49's avatar

It's now much easier to see why the automatic defense cuts from "sequestration" would have such a devastating effect on military preparedness: these flag-rank jerkwads wouldn't be able to afford the extra staff who actually do their jobs while generals are off in their tents fapping to their email.

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