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Yes. Some of us fucked around, and we all found out more than we wanted to know about our limits. We elected a notorious criminal twice, because too many people couldn't bring themselves to vote for the smarter, more capable person in 2016 or 2024. Her emails, her raucous laugh...

Poor Schmitt.. Could this be worse than perjury? Classic case of one who steps in his own Schmitt, and remains oblivious to what clings to his shoe as he tracks across the political carpets. Totally fitting for Tragic Comedy.

and they will do it again....

I mourned our democracy years ago friend.

One cannot help but wonder how many innocent people are mouldering away in Missouri prisons thanks to Schmitt's prosecutorial misconduct and malpractice. bsky.app/profile/sahi...

"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." -- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1990s "conservatives" initiated an "us v them" win-at-all-costs zero-sum model of culture, politics & governance resulting in hypocrisy, tribalism, & bad government.

This party needs to disbanded.

Yeah, the real news is the smear itself pushed by senators in a hearing, aided and abetted by RW media outlets all lined up ready to spread the smear.

This. The actual story.

wished we had a press interested in reporting on how these media blitzes are organized and the players - esp Politico

Exactly

Indeed. But the bright side is that there were undoubtedly many cultists watching, eagerly awaiting the takedown of Smith, who shared facts about Trump's crimes from which the FOX viewers have been shielded. While most may still dismiss the info, perhaps some will rethink their blind loyalty.

“they” they’ve fallen not us

Agreed. It is laughable and worthy of mockery, but I hope people see beyond the absurdity to the sloppy willingness to defame a public servants using flimsy “evidence” in service of a corrupt administration (and in hopes of furthing a career). This was not a one-off goof; it is part of a pattern.

And because the Republicans are all corrupt and unable to ever do the right thing for right reason, they weren’t able to imagine that Jack Smith is an honorable man who always does the right thing for the right reason.

They made a real Hawktuah of it.

It's interesting to me rhetorically to compare Schmiitt phony tirade/umbrage with Josh Hawley's performative defamation of Fauci.

And Senate Republicans rehearsed it before confronting Jack Smith. bsky.app/profile/nich...

And also, despite the GOP faceplant in this hearing, the whole thing is a painful reminder of how badly the Dems mismanaged the impeachment and the Smith report.