Ashlee Howard

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Before we move on from the Eric Schmitt humiliation to the next Trumpian GOP humiliation, I wanted to point out a few things for context:
1. Schmitt smirked - visibly - when he asked Jack Smith if he attended a Hawks game in Atlanta and Smith said "no." He was playing gotcha, and this was the entire purpose of the Smith hearing - garnering sound bites that may help reverse a GOP polling slide.
2. Seconds after the smirk, Schmitt - unable to contain his ill-conceived glee - mentioned perjury - twice. He couldn't control himself.
3. Smith remained unflappable throughout. He wasn't emotional nor indignant. In fact, he was respectful and thoughtful, and it was his respect and reasoned thought that led to the uncovering of the mix-up, as he himself recalled attending a different basketball game in a different city, because he was thinking and not feeling.
4. Klobuchar played the detective and she did her part with class. She didn't call Schmitt an idiot, a dirtbag, a presumptive partisan hack, or any name. She calmly pointed out the Hawks/Hawkeyes error.
5. Schmitt, who IS an idiot, a dirtbag, and a presumptive partisan hack, attacked Klobuchar and claimed she didn't have the floor to speak. Then, someone must have whispered something to him, and he shut up.
6. In the few minutes between Schmitt's questioning and Klobuchar's explanation, the RW media machine, like the rabid dogs they are, were out in force amplifying the "gotcha" on social media. Hannity and Benny Johnson and others later deleted their tweets, and numerous Community Notes were posted - that's my favorite feature on X, btw.
7. Even after the embarrassment, Schmitt went on the Charlie Kirk podcast and was complimented for his questioning, and he went with it, not putting any truth our there with any context, let alone any contrition. Add scumbag to my epithets for him.
8. And of course, GOP lawmakers STILL spin the hearing falsely - even now; Hawley in particular (like Schmitt - also from Missouri).

OK. Take this whole thing in its entirety, to see it for what it is. Look at the sordid intent, the lack of shame, the gaslighting, the lack of contrition - today it was Eric Schmitt, tomorrow it will be someone else, and they keep throwing false narratives out there - for three reasons: first, they're desperate and losing; second, their followers are tribal, frothing, and addicted to dopamine; and third, they play to an audience of one, whose entire rise to power was based on false narratives - a malignantly narcissistic audience of one.
It's the same malignantly narcissistic audience that - as Jack Smith knows and can prove - took classified documents with nefarious intent.
And it's the same malignantly narcissistic audience - that we ALL know - engineered and inflamed a shameful insurrection to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after LOSING an election.
And ... it's the same malignantly narcissistic audience that we need to neuter as a lame duck - and that neutering needs to be Party wide.
We need to return to truth and doing the job - like Jack Smith, to fairness and decorum - like Amy Klobuchar, and to empathy, contrition, non-disordered brains, and an electorate capable of reasoned thought.
The entire incident is proof that the entire GOP needs to be voted out.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

Bro, just apologize like a grown-up…

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

more of this please. we must pledge to end the scourge of crime in political office at a time of unprecedented naked corruption! we own law and order! we will deliver accountability!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

RAPISTS do not belong in the WHITE HOUSE.

It’s really that simple.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC: “There was several students suspended and one put on track for deportation by Cornell University for protesting the genocide in Palestine on campus. We do that for someone engaging in free speech and protest on campus, but we make rapists write an essay in private”

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Call me crazy but making the decision to drug and torture someone for 7 hours should absolutely be met with life-altering consequences.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

If you think the story of the Cornell rapist who was hired by Wells Fargo and then fired after police reopened their investigation is wild, wait till you hear about the serial rapist who was handed the nuclear codes and then re-elected by 77 million Americans (allegedly).

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman.

Yes, that's the point.

It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

[Dua @Duakz5q]

yes the Cornell rape incident is horrible, but a more overlooked sinister detail is that they advertised it in a group chat and NONE of the guys reported it or stopped them. Men enable men.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Maybe I'm missing something. But why is "punishment" for the Cornell r@pısts being handled by the university and not law enforcement?????

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Not only did Cornell NOT expel all those little rapists, Cornell did however, expel a bunch of students (and a professor) for protesting genocide.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

The longer Greg Abbott is in office, the more we pay in taxes.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

Texas Republicans blaming Democrats for Texas’ problems after being in power for over 30 years is crazy work 😭

[ToutdeSuiteLaSinner Is Salty AF @ToutSuiteSinner]

The Cornell response to the raping of a female student is how we end up with Trumps, Epsteins, and Kavanaughs.

I said what I said.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

They just ran that illegal, tax-payer-funded Trump commercial during the Commanders/Seahawks game. That’s a lot of our money being spent on Trump propaganda.

[Juice TD Tracker (1) @TheJuiceTDGuy]

Why is there a Donald Trump ad during an NFL game when he's not running for office and why is the US government paying for a political ad

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics.

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

I hate Ken Paxton on biblical grounds.

[Allison Floyd @AllisonRFloyd]

“WHY DON’T WOMEN REPORT?!”

Because a young woman was drugged and gang raped at a frat house by seven men who bragged about it and zero charges were filed.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Wrong. You have spent the last two years wrecking our economy and voting against reining Trump in.

The Republican Party is responsible for this mess.