More should’ve been done when Paul Pelosi was smashed in the head with a hammer when they were making fun of him and trying to say he was gay, and that was gay lover blah blah blah, making all their jokes
Well, Republicans have been demonizing Democrats successfully for a long time.
This assassination followsJanuary 6th the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer and the attack on Paul Pelosi, after initial shock, all of these acts were forgotten or shrugged off.
18 states have recall protocols via petition for Representatives to the House of Congress...not only should all states have that ability, it should extend to Senators. Right now, Senators cannot be recalled, only expelled.
Interesting that these tweets and giving the finger to constituents participating in the No Kings protests (you can't write this stuff) got no reaction from Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Yes but the kind of person who makes tweets like that after a homicide, and also drives by constituents to give them the middle finger? By definition has no sense of decency or shame.
When you talk about decency or shame, most of the elected republicans think those are items you can buy in a grocery store. But then again, they will not buy because the prices are still kinda high right now.
Correct, he probably raised $1 million plus just off the emails and texts in the last 24 hours. It pays to own the libs.
If you can’t get these clowns to care about thousands of kids being slaughtered during mass school shootings, then I doubt a politician or two will matter in the end.…..:)
I am truly appalled. In addition to the horror of the killings, two teenagers lost their beloved parents and became orphans in a matter of seconds. Anyone who thinks the assassination of any public official is funny has some serious mental health issues. A US senator should be censured and shunned. How low have we sunk that none of his Republican colleagues have said anything! 😡
It's hard to be shocked anymore, but Mike Lee successfully shocked me. This is the most appalling behavior I have ever seen from a US senator. Sickening.
The Hortman children also had to make the heartbreaking decision to euthanize their Golden Retriever, whose bullet wounds from the attack were too severe to repair. The Hortman family were volunteer puppy-raisers for a charity that trained Golden Retrievers to be service and emotional support dogs for veterans. Their Golden Retriever was one of the puppies who became a family pet instead of progressing to service dog training. To me, this highlights the disparity of character between the Hortmans and Mike Lee.
Mirrors what we see in the congress today....one party wishing to build upon their prior successes, reach across the isle...the other bent on destruction for personal greed. , no matter the cost to America or the World. Mike Lee.is sadly just an Edward Munch portrait
.of what.the repulsican .party of today has become...not the old Party.of Lincoln.
Mike Lee IS THE PORTAIT of today's trumpism...lower case deliberate.
Today, as always, I phoned my US senators (Grassley and Ernst). As usual, my call went to voicemail— giving me less than 2 minutes to make my case before the hang up,— BUT that was enough time time to say “as my Senator, I call on you to vote for censure of Utah Senator Lee for his obscene lies regarding the murder and attack on legislators in Minnesota and I implore you to vote NO! on the terrible reconciliation bill, AKA, the ‘Well, we’re all going to die’ Bill”.
Will my call make a difference? I don’t know, probably not. But it will make more of a difference than not calling, and it relieved a little stress.
If you have a GOP Senator or two, give ‘em a call— you’ll find that you can point out multiple senators’ inhumanity in a short amount of time!
Wow, thank you for highlighting Sen. Tina Smith - impressive and refreshing. Good for her and good for her staffers. It's too rare that we see direct confrontation when it is so clearly called for.
Rather than the xeeting being his brand, maybe Mike Lee’s actions reveal exactly what he appears to be-an amoral and reprehensible POS whose behavior is beneath that of a normal human being, much less a US Senator. Of course, Sen. Tina Smith would have had to approach him in a respectful way to comply with Senate decorum because God forbid a Dem. Senator would behave as Lee does with many of his Republican colleagues not far behind
I'll echo some other comments and say I was (somehow) shocked and deeply upset by Mike Lee's callous, disgraceful tweets this past weekend. It makes me wonder if there will ever be a return to normalcy, even if we manage to fight back this authoritarian wave. Are people so rotten that they think joking about a murder (while the killer is still at large!) is acceptable? All because the victims weren't in their political party? I don't know how Mike Lee can come back from that...especially if he is treating the sorrow he's exacerbated as a joke. I don't understand why every single person in public office hasn't called this behavior out. I can't imagine the grief people are feeling right now and to have a parasite like Mike Lee able to feed off of their misery is a true horror of modern society and social media.
Bashing politicians like Mike Lee is ultimately unsatisfying, because they don't care and it doesn't go to the root of the problem. The problem is the voters. I'm not sure what kind of degenerate simpleton would vote for Mike Lee, but they are as thick in Utah as mosquitoes in the Alaskan bush.
I agree voters have a responsibility, but that responsibility extends to Lee's party, Congress as a whole, and the president as well. This kind of shockingly crude behaviour needs to be called out at all levels. Loud and clear.
Really good point. The state appears to elect soulless people . Remember the Governor walked upon the graves of the fallen in Arlington to help Trump make a political ad . I think he did finally apologize after the uproar.
I had the privilege of being a Massachusetts native when Mitt Romney was Governor. While I never voted for for him , I can honestly say he was so respectful . Remember-he was elected as a Republican Governor in a Democratic state. History will be good to him.
Indeed. Even if one might be inclined to think of Mormons as cultish and repressive, they are usually, in my experience, nice. I can't imagine Mitt Romney would approve of this behavior!
"BasedMikeLee", what an embarrassing handle for a middle aged senator, it's pathetic.
Rotting is a good metaphor for this phenomenon. These internet and social media silos seem to truly rot people's brains and souls until there's nothing left and they can no longer sift truth from fiction.
I've been online for more than 25 years , back to the Usenet. I am not a paragon of human virtue and I am in many ways a misanthrope. Yet I have somehow managed to not sink to the level of publicly mocking the murders of people (of ANY party or ethnicity or religion). I didn't even mock Trump last year. We spend alot of time blaming social media and the internet for bad behavior when it's still just humans on the keyboards. Social media has just taught those of us who still have some basic decency how horrible people really are.
After all, we aren't that many decades removed from popular public hangings.
I take your point, but I think there is a toxic and unique nexus of anonymity and the opportunity for like minded creeps to create a sense of community on social media. They are therefore able to create a self-reinforcing echo chamber that gives them an inflated sense of representation, numbers and normalcy.
In the old days, these folks would be the odd duck shouting at people from street corners: no way to avoid public censure and no way to collect in numbers (given their low numbers in the population as a whole).
Political bodies have always had their share of psychopaths, but the advent of social media now makes it easier for psychopaths to show their true colors. It seems like the largely Mormon state of Utah might want to reconsider whether they are best represented by a psychopath in the Senate.
“senator “Mike Lee needs to resign immediately.
I use the term senator very lightly in referring to him. He is disgrace to the office..
And he’s doing all of this being paid by the taxpayers.
Time for him to go.
There should be nothing but massive cries, nonstop, calling for his resignation
Just like there was to get rid of Elon Musk
And not just from the people in his state
More should’ve been done when Paul Pelosi was smashed in the head with a hammer when they were making fun of him and trying to say he was gay, and that was gay lover blah blah blah, making all their jokes
Well, Republicans have been demonizing Democrats successfully for a long time.
This assassination followsJanuary 6th the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer and the attack on Paul Pelosi, after initial shock, all of these acts were forgotten or shrugged off.
Love that.MSM ! 😟
18 states have recall protocols via petition for Representatives to the House of Congress...not only should all states have that ability, it should extend to Senators. Right now, Senators cannot be recalled, only expelled.
Interesting that these tweets and giving the finger to constituents participating in the No Kings protests (you can't write this stuff) got no reaction from Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
If Lee does not resign, he should be expelled.
If Mike Lee had any sense of decency or shame, he would resign and go away quietly
Yes but the kind of person who makes tweets like that after a homicide, and also drives by constituents to give them the middle finger? By definition has no sense of decency or shame.
He doesn't have any. And he thinks this trolling is going to get him places in MAGA world. Maybe he's right. It's sickening.
Time to have consequences
When you talk about decency or shame, most of the elected republicans think those are items you can buy in a grocery store. But then again, they will not buy because the prices are still kinda high right now.
It won't happen. He won't even be censored.
Correct, he probably raised $1 million plus just off the emails and texts in the last 24 hours. It pays to own the libs.
If you can’t get these clowns to care about thousands of kids being slaughtered during mass school shootings, then I doubt a politician or two will matter in the end.…..:)
Like objects
They objectify everything
Isn’t that disgusting outrageous that they’ve had mindset to
OWN the libs
Such a malignant narcissistic, psychopathic need to control and own everybody and everything
Exactly, it’s all about power and control. And when your entire existence is a joke, then power is your only option…:)
No "like", Dave, but concur completely.
When it comes to Mike Lee there is nothing to like.
The mind of just filled with filth and evil
It is reported that Mike Lee took down the three posts that he put about the murders of the lawmakers in Minnesota
This does not matter
He’s only doing it to try to protect his Senate seat
He needs to be accountable
He must RESIGN
Along with Joni, Ernst
Right along with Joni Ernst
It'd be better if the good people of Iowa just voted her out, though. That's what she deserves.
I am truly appalled. In addition to the horror of the killings, two teenagers lost their beloved parents and became orphans in a matter of seconds. Anyone who thinks the assassination of any public official is funny has some serious mental health issues. A US senator should be censured and shunned. How low have we sunk that none of his Republican colleagues have said anything! 😡
It's hard to be shocked anymore, but Mike Lee successfully shocked me. This is the most appalling behavior I have ever seen from a US senator. Sickening.
It was shocking to me because his tweets were purely evil.
Yep. He managed to make us forget about depraved Joni Ernst.
The Hortman children also had to make the heartbreaking decision to euthanize their Golden Retriever, whose bullet wounds from the attack were too severe to repair. The Hortman family were volunteer puppy-raisers for a charity that trained Golden Retrievers to be service and emotional support dogs for veterans. Their Golden Retriever was one of the puppies who became a family pet instead of progressing to service dog training. To me, this highlights the disparity of character between the Hortmans and Mike Lee.
Mirrors what we see in the congress today....one party wishing to build upon their prior successes, reach across the isle...the other bent on destruction for personal greed. , no matter the cost to America or the World. Mike Lee.is sadly just an Edward Munch portrait
.of what.the repulsican .party of today has become...not the old Party.of Lincoln.
Mike Lee IS THE PORTAIT of today's trumpism...lower case deliberate.
Today, as always, I phoned my US senators (Grassley and Ernst). As usual, my call went to voicemail— giving me less than 2 minutes to make my case before the hang up,— BUT that was enough time time to say “as my Senator, I call on you to vote for censure of Utah Senator Lee for his obscene lies regarding the murder and attack on legislators in Minnesota and I implore you to vote NO! on the terrible reconciliation bill, AKA, the ‘Well, we’re all going to die’ Bill”.
Will my call make a difference? I don’t know, probably not. But it will make more of a difference than not calling, and it relieved a little stress.
If you have a GOP Senator or two, give ‘em a call— you’ll find that you can point out multiple senators’ inhumanity in a short amount of time!
I have been so upset about this. I thought nothing could shock me anymore. Good analysis - thank you, Joe.
Wow, thank you for highlighting Sen. Tina Smith - impressive and refreshing. Good for her and good for her staffers. It's too rare that we see direct confrontation when it is so clearly called for.
Read the letter from Smith's COS to Lee if you can find it. It is a classic burn.
👏👏...well said, Grace.
Rather than the xeeting being his brand, maybe Mike Lee’s actions reveal exactly what he appears to be-an amoral and reprehensible POS whose behavior is beneath that of a normal human being, much less a US Senator. Of course, Sen. Tina Smith would have had to approach him in a respectful way to comply with Senate decorum because God forbid a Dem. Senator would behave as Lee does with many of his Republican colleagues not far behind
Always a woman calling out the shameful behavior!!
I've always thought character mattered. I've always thought politicians who talk a lot about it are lying.
Or that voters who talk about it are suckers.
I'll echo some other comments and say I was (somehow) shocked and deeply upset by Mike Lee's callous, disgraceful tweets this past weekend. It makes me wonder if there will ever be a return to normalcy, even if we manage to fight back this authoritarian wave. Are people so rotten that they think joking about a murder (while the killer is still at large!) is acceptable? All because the victims weren't in their political party? I don't know how Mike Lee can come back from that...especially if he is treating the sorrow he's exacerbated as a joke. I don't understand why every single person in public office hasn't called this behavior out. I can't imagine the grief people are feeling right now and to have a parasite like Mike Lee able to feed off of their misery is a true horror of modern society and social media.
Bashing politicians like Mike Lee is ultimately unsatisfying, because they don't care and it doesn't go to the root of the problem. The problem is the voters. I'm not sure what kind of degenerate simpleton would vote for Mike Lee, but they are as thick in Utah as mosquitoes in the Alaskan bush.
I agree voters have a responsibility, but that responsibility extends to Lee's party, Congress as a whole, and the president as well. This kind of shockingly crude behaviour needs to be called out at all levels. Loud and clear.
Really good point. The state appears to elect soulless people . Remember the Governor walked upon the graves of the fallen in Arlington to help Trump make a political ad . I think he did finally apologize after the uproar.
They elected Mitt Romney who may not have been perfect but would never been this classless, cruel or disgusting
I had the privilege of being a Massachusetts native when Mitt Romney was Governor. While I never voted for for him , I can honestly say he was so respectful . Remember-he was elected as a Republican Governor in a Democratic state. History will be good to him.
Where are the good people of Utah?
Not in DC apparently.
Re: Mike Lee
Is Mike Lee's behavior what's expected these days from Mormons? Seems different from what I've experienced in the past.
Indeed. Even if one might be inclined to think of Mormons as cultish and repressive, they are usually, in my experience, nice. I can't imagine Mitt Romney would approve of this behavior!
That’s just two cults instead of the normal one for most Republicans in elected office
"BasedMikeLee", what an embarrassing handle for a middle aged senator, it's pathetic.
Rotting is a good metaphor for this phenomenon. These internet and social media silos seem to truly rot people's brains and souls until there's nothing left and they can no longer sift truth from fiction.
I think it merely allows them to sink to their true level. Which at least is revealing...
I've been online for more than 25 years , back to the Usenet. I am not a paragon of human virtue and I am in many ways a misanthrope. Yet I have somehow managed to not sink to the level of publicly mocking the murders of people (of ANY party or ethnicity or religion). I didn't even mock Trump last year. We spend alot of time blaming social media and the internet for bad behavior when it's still just humans on the keyboards. Social media has just taught those of us who still have some basic decency how horrible people really are.
After all, we aren't that many decades removed from popular public hangings.
I take your point, but I think there is a toxic and unique nexus of anonymity and the opportunity for like minded creeps to create a sense of community on social media. They are therefore able to create a self-reinforcing echo chamber that gives them an inflated sense of representation, numbers and normalcy.
In the old days, these folks would be the odd duck shouting at people from street corners: no way to avoid public censure and no way to collect in numbers (given their low numbers in the population as a whole).
There was a time when Republicans in Congress actually exhibited a sense of decency. Now they have none.
Political bodies have always had their share of psychopaths, but the advent of social media now makes it easier for psychopaths to show their true colors. It seems like the largely Mormon state of Utah might want to reconsider whether they are best represented by a psychopath in the Senate.
Start by a good CENSURE
Utah called, message for Mike: "Get to effing work..."