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“Utah Democratic Party Chair Brian King said that “Sadly, this is what we’ve come to expect from Mike Lee — detached from reality and fully aligned with extremist politics. I would love to see him committed to facts and reason to serve Utahns, but he left that world a long time ago.””

Remember, we *had* a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear issue, thanks to the JCPOA that Obama put in place after years of hard work, but then President Spiteful Shithead withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2018 and everything fell apart. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Seems @senmikelee.bsky.social didn’t want to talk about his ugly tweets blaming Dems for the shooting of Dems in Minnesota

mike lee going down the batshit insane michael flynn path always the shittiest people u most suspect tbh

Because of my work and writing, I've talked to countless elected officials and their staffers about political violence over the past several years. Mostly Dem, though not all. The collective trauma for these folks is immeasurable and justified. With no recourse. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

2 of 53 Republican senators spent the day mocking the assassination if a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota. They will face no accountability from Corporate Media or Republicans because no one holds Republican lawmakers accountable for anything, they are assumed to have no agency for their actions.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

When they can pretend the violence came from the left, they insist all Democrats are responsible and ideology is to blame. When there's no denying the violence came from the right, though, they back off and pretend ideology had nothing to do with it. Certainly not anything *they* said.

This is telling. On his laser eyes twitter account Lee claimed the assassin was like antifa or a prog Dem. But semi privately his office circulated a different message

All of this.

Have *any* prominent Republicans called Lee out?

Have any Utah Republicans called Mike Lee out? Anyone ask @spencercox.bsky.social? Or how about the LDS church? Do they have any firm positions on lying and laughing about murder?

the thing is if these people could feel shame they wouldn't have their jobs

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

“He seemed a little surprised to be confronted.” Yeah, that’s the problem with the clubby atmosphere of the Senate. This guy thinks he can spread vile lies without pushback. Good for @smith.senate.gov for puncturing that delusion

I rarely go to Twitter and when I do I make sure to keep it quick. Part of the reason is that the place is an open sewer and I don’t miss the stench at all. But another part is that I invariably see someone I know who’s still posting there and just lose a lot of respect for them.

does he ... does he think the UK is still part of the EU?

Thank you @smith.senate.gov — Mike Lee seems impervious to shame but it’s still important to keep calling his egregious lies out

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

I cannot, simply cannot stress enough how remaining on Twitter is actually a sign of very, very, very low self-esteem and coupled with a seemingly paradoxical narcissistic complex. It is unhealthy. And those still on there "for the follows", well, get some help.

I thought for a long time that it was inertia or Stockholm syndrome or fear of loss of status that kept them on Twitter. Journalists stay on Twitter because they like this.

bLuEsKy iS dYiNg

But we were told by very smart people not to attack Trump on immigration because it was his superpower

ouch, needed carney to save him from senior moment. sad.

Look, another dangerous Marxist

Oh, I found these because I was curious if Mike Lee had apologized for his lies and ha ha no he retweeted his fellow sociopaths here.