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Mike Lee has always been a piece of fetid shit unworthy of his position. Add this to the pile for when/if the comeuppance arrives.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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Yeah he ain't getting fired. He'll get a handshake from the Moron-in-chief.
Bet the guy who shot those senators will be quietly pardoned. Fuck, I bet the orange cancer would like to offer him a job!
Last I checked, murder is still illegal in Minnesota - a pardon won't do much to offset multiple life sentences.
In the remote case he's actually fired, you can bet he got a secretary, embassy or other cushy fed job.
I was in a crowd of people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I'm furious that he supposedly represents me.
I’m betting the dipshit missed the part where the shooters family and social circle all repeatedly and consistently confirmed that the dude was a hardcore maga dipshit and “very religious”
Apparently there's some bullshit narrative being pushed by Fox that Tim Walz is somehow responsible.
I mean, orangeboi apparently did try to cast the blame at Walz’s feet, which is absolute, categorical bullshit of the große Lüge variety
He does seem like he knows his was around a political assassination false flag, dontchaknow
„Missed“
What makes these people “marxist” in their mind? I.. just don’t get it.
Some kinds of people (often conservatives) don't use words to convey consistent meaning. They use words for the effect it has on the audience. It's emotions.
They see something bad, they reach into their bag of bad-thing-words, and pull out "Marxist". That's it.
They are in a fundamental sense stupid.
Neither do they.
When you don't know the actual definition of words, you can use them to mean anything.
Kinda like how they don't know what Marxist, Leninist, socialist, globalist, woke, trans, leftist, liberal, or DEI actually mean, so the right just uses them all interchangeably to mean "things I don't like or that scare me".
Exactly. It's just an insult to them.
A while back, one of my Trumper neighbors decided that she didn't use an elliptical work-out machine that she had bought over 2 years prior. She took it back to the store without a receipt and demanded that they give her money for it - not just store credit - even though it was well past the return date.
When telling me this story, she acknowledged her crazy behavior by saying "haha I was acting like such a liberal."
In her mind, it's as simple as "liberal = bad". The actual definitions of words mean nothing to them.
The actual definitions of words mean nothing to them.
Insert Sartre quote about arguing with antisemites here.
They don't hate minorities.
Mike Lee is too stupid to understand words.
More like grounds for promotion with the current administration.
They’ll change their tune when Trump pardons the killer. (And you know he will.)
It's a state crime. Trump can't pardon him, but he'll try.
I mean it's a federal crime as well, but I understand the distinction.
He's being charged with federal murder charges
Why did Walz make a point of saying local cops did the cuffing, taking over from FBI?
The arresting officers wouldn't make a decision with respect to federal charges in most instances. It's very common for local authorities to initially take a suspect into custody and if federal charges are applicable, they would be filed later after federal prosecutors have looked over the case and evidence.
I assume the suspect will likely face both state and federal charges, but federal charges have been announced that make him eligible for the death penalty. Federal prosecutors have much higher conviction rates than local prosecutors, generally.
An actual execution is unlikely to be carried out even if he is successfully convicted. That's unrelated to any hypothetical pardon, it's just because the US rarely executes inmates at the federal level these days. They usually just linger in appeals and waiting on death row for decades.
Edit: *Federal executions are rarely carried out these days when Trump isn't in office. He pushed through as many as he possibly could at the end of his first term, right up until the day he left office.
It can be both.
Grounds for?
Fucking spineless. Don't fucking tolerate that shit. Ever. What the fuck.
If Trump makes the same comment, will it be grounds to remove him from office?
Along with the image, Lee confusingly wrote, "This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way."
It is confusing because I'd guess there are no Marxists in office anywhere in the USA. But then he's not totally wrong... If Marxists got their way, Trump supporters probably wouldn't be emboldened to murder anyone who leans further left than Bush. Technically, it's a pro-Marxist message.
I thought he was saying the killer was a Marxist. Which is obviously false but aligns with the Republicans' utter refusal to understand words.