October 14, 2019 12:07 PM UTC

At Least It's Not Your Congressman (Ship Spotting Edition)

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• by: Colorado Pols

In Colorado politics, one of the seminal faux pas a candidate can commit is using a scenic photo of a mountain range that turns out to not be located in the state of Colorado. Various locations from Alaska’s Denali to the Canadian Rockies, not to mention a Utah canyonscape or two, have embarrassingly stood in for Colorado locales in ads and other literature–which understandably tends to punch holes in a candidate’s authenticity.

Well folks, here’s the nautical version of getting your mountains wrong, courtesy Florida GOP Rep. Brian Mast:

That’s the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy pic.twitter.com/FJKsRYU1g0

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) October 13, 2019

As the world continues to wrestle with the aftermath of what could be the most successful Russian intelligence operation against our country since the theft of the atomic bomb, it’s hard to imagine a more…tragicomic mistake from a Republican congressman.