this is a great way to get out of anything for them.

"It was a joke. I was just kidding." Then implies that Democrats don't have a sense of humor.

All my funniest jokes include accusing others of committing treason.

perhaps then we'll all start to see the humor in it...😁

hahaha. Very Funny. If it weren't so darn connectable.

I suggest folks ask Lev and Igor

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA): “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.”

Paul Ryan (R-WI): “No leaks, all right? This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

Steve Scalise (R-LA): "That's how you know we're tight."

I remember suggesting way back when that when the dust settles, we would revisit this exchange.

I swear Lev, Igor and others can help solve this one.

I remember suggesting way back when that when the dust settles, we would revisit this exchange.

I swear Lev, Igor and others can help solve this one.

do you mean it's funny that they do what the russians want SO MUCH OF THE TIME that it's "as if" they are paid by the russians?

Or what? Explain the joke for us humor-impaired lefties. I'm sure we will be all "ROFL" and "LOL" after we finally get it.

These hard-boiled ink-stained wretches of the Fourth Estate sure are a credulous bunch when a heretofore humorless Republican says he was just joking.

Kevin McCarthy is a Traitor....swear to God!

Not one joke has the punch line "Swear to God"...

Keving McCarthy wasn't joking....No he is just plain lying....

This also goes to the Ryan, McCarthy, and Scalise being well aware of the Russian hacking of
the DNC & Hillary's computers. They then went on to use that hacked data in their own 2016
elections.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

In the transcript published by the Post, McCarthy speculates that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers and, in the process, discovered whatever opposition-research materials the Democrats had gathered on Trump.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. “Swear to God.”

Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican from California with a peculiar amalgam of views: pro-marijuana, dubious about climate change, pro-torture. For this last position, in 2007, Keith Olbermann awarded him his periodic “Worst Person in the World” award, on his old MSNBC show. Like Trump, Rohrabacher has been highly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, Politico ran an article on Rohrabacher called “Putin’s Favorite Congressman.”

In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”

Not sure how it would work as humor if it did not fit observational knowledge.

if it were a joke why did the Speaker, Paul Ryan, tell them to keep it in the family?

intentionally use to manipulate their victims and others around them.

It ranks up there with the "if you hadn't made me so angry..." BS bullies and abusers use.