Still a better use of funds than actually giving money to Bernie Sanders’s campaign.

If the Constitution is worth anything: no chance in hell.

It’d have to be Der Trumpenfuhrer himself, then. Nothing in Tillerson’s record suggests LGBTQ hostility (if reports are to be believed, he supported ending anti-gay discrimination in the Boy Scouts as a member of their national board). Career leadership at State is uniformly pro-gay rights. We got 999,999 problems but…

Woooow. How the hell are you ungrayed?

They conspicuously did NOT deny the hacking in any of those statements. They gave the mob-boss answer: “well it’s unfortunate that guy who snitched on me was found at the bottom of the canal with his feet encased in cement, but how will you ever find out who’s responsible? The guy had many enemies and definitely had…

You’re not very bright, are you?

First of all: huh?

No it isn’t.

Everybody’s comin’ in hot with the wrongness today.

The “intel state” did no such thing. It’s been pretty abundantly covered that the Bush Administration went to Iraq because they wanted to and cherrypicked intelligence to make it look like it was an informed national-defense decision instead of a grudge.

First guideline of figuring out which story is more credible: cui bono?

You are extremely wrong, as always.

The difference is that Donald Trump lies because a bumbling fool. The CIA lies because they are malicious manipulators.

My guess would be “not thrilled,” but since they have the word “intelligence” somewhere in their title or agency, they’re for sure on his enemies list anyway. Donald doesn’t go in for any fancy knowledge that goes against his guts. Of course, his guts, like everyone’s, are full of shit.

One thing’s for sure, the Russian hacking story is a big mess that has thus far boiled down to either believing the CIA (which lies) or believing Trump (who lies).

without knowing Neville would become a stone-cold badass, because those books hadn’t been written yet.

I can’t support this analysis. There are four words here, three of which are of significance, and all three are good things in every permutation except perhaps “titty lasagna,” and even that might be worth a try depending on whether we’re talking kink or cannibalism.

Ah yes, the ever-enjoyable “I’m not racist; it’s just that blacks are, objectively speaking, subhuman beasts” defense.

Same reason any of the rest of us pay our mortgage instead of going on a photo safari in the Serengeti or what have you: they thought there’d be time, and they didn’t want to make their own lives difficult in the moment. If even a normal hardcore conservative like Rubio or Jeb! is waiting in the wings, we’re still…

Unfortunately “critical but stable” is a thing. A persistent vegetative state is bad and nonrecoverable, but it is nothing if not stable.