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Miles Archer

(22,483 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:55 PM 18 hrs ago

Beady-Eyed Wretched Little Smirking MAGAt Troll Dirtbag Mike Lee "deletes tweet after blowback"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-mike-lee-frantically-deletes-wild-post-after-blowback/

Chronically online MAGA Congressman Mike Lee should have just kept this one in the drafts.

The Utah senator, 54, shared a photo on X on Sunday afternoon of masked Mexican cartel members, calling out “leftists” in an attempted double standards gotcha moment regarding the idea that ICE agents should not wear masks to hide their identities.

“Cartel hitmen wear masks,” Lee, from his personal @BasedMikeLee account, wrote. “Leftists aren’t complaining.”

However, the senator was quick to delete his post after a few prominent Democrats responded, calling out how Lee’s argument unintentionally backfired.

“Yes. Cartel hitmen wear masks. That’s why ICE shouldn’t,” wrote Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Beady-Eyed Wretched Little Smirking MAGAt Troll Dirtbag Mike Lee "deletes tweet after blowback" (Original Post) Miles Archer 18 hrs ago OP
Mike L needs to grow up and be the adult in the room. especially when he engaged in crap like this. SWBTATTReg 18 hrs ago #1
That's not possible RainCaster 17 hrs ago #7
The fact that someone had to point out B.See 16 hrs ago #21
Morally bankrupot AND downright stupid! ShazzieB 4 hrs ago #42
This message was self-deleted by its author B.See 16 hrs ago #22
But they keep reelecting that son of a bitch. MuirHero 13 hrs ago #36
@PwnedMikeLee tanyev 18 hrs ago #2
That's it. IQ tests for elected reps n/t leftstreet 18 hrs ago #3
And EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Clouds Passing 17 hrs ago #8
Sick and tired of this lame bullshit from our elected leaders Walleye 17 hrs ago #4
it is crazy unprofessional Skittles 13 hrs ago #37
Kick dalton99a 17 hrs ago #5
He should know by now Jilly_in_VA 17 hrs ago #6
Lee apparently believes... GiqueCee 17 hrs ago #9
Damn. Schumer said something? Wow. Imagine my shock and surprise. GoneOffShore 17 hrs ago #10
Never pass up the opportunity to bash Democrats. Wednesdays 15 hrs ago #28
I don't bash A.O.C, Jasmine Crockett, Ruben Gallego, Andy Kim, Ted Lieu, et al. GoneOffShore 1 hr ago #44
Sigh mcar 15 hrs ago #29
Good for Schumer. More of this please. nt SunSeeker 17 hrs ago #11
Eagerly stupid BaronChocula 16 hrs ago #12
Now if only someone would put the "knee" in some of those jerks... GopherGal 16 hrs ago #23
Don't get me started! BaronChocula 15 hrs ago #33
Lee is one of ours. But Junipercity 16 hrs ago #13
I'm not sure what "ours" means. he's definitely not one of "mine" being a Republican Senator.... Ol Janx Spirit 16 hrs ago #15
😆 As in, lives in the neighborhood. Junipercity 16 hrs ago #24
Ha! Ol Janx Spirit 15 hrs ago #25
Oh I've lived in many strange neighborhoods. Junipercity 15 hrs ago #32
... Ol Janx Spirit 14 hrs ago #35
Live by the double standard. die by the double standard. ToxMarz 16 hrs ago #14
It seems the only time I hear about this idiot is when he has posted some stupid ass Bev54 16 hrs ago #16
What kind of sick MAGA "brain" do you have to have to leap to that connection? Ol Janx Spirit 16 hrs ago #17
All of these Republicans do it: popsdenver 16 hrs ago #18
The Stupid Burns Red Hot with PEDOCRATS Cha 16 hrs ago #19
He's an idiot, what do you expect? ChicagoTeamster 16 hrs ago #20
I recall Just Jerome 15 hrs ago #26
Not bad, Chuck RetiredParatrooper 15 hrs ago #27
Your wonderful description of Mike Lee moonbeam23 15 hrs ago #30
That's some nuclear-weapons-grade STUPID right there. Just stunning. Maru Kitteh 15 hrs ago #31
What A Dope! ProfessorGAC 14 hrs ago #34
MAGAts are dumb as shit. Martin68 9 hrs ago #38
He must be dumber than dirt. Robbers, cartel members, hit men etc. all wear masks because they are illegal dirt bags. appleannie1 8 hrs ago #39
False Equivalence Definition czarjak 5 hrs ago #40
These fuckers are so unbelievably stupid. Like damn... Schumer was 100% on target here. VegasVet 4 hrs ago #41
That's what is known as True Dough 3 hrs ago #43

SWBTATTReg

(26,185 posts)
1. Mike L needs to grow up and be the adult in the room. especially when he engaged in crap like this.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:05 PM
18 hrs ago

Pathetic.

RainCaster

(13,557 posts)
7. That's not possible
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:00 PM
17 hrs ago

For anyone to grow up, they must self examine. This is not possible for any Republican, because to do so would require a complete rethink of all the decisions they have made since they came of age.

B.See

(8,161 posts)
21. The fact that someone had to point out
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:16 PM
16 hrs ago

the connection to him PROVES how morally BANKRUPT these psychos are.

Response to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

MuirHero

(125 posts)
36. But they keep reelecting that son of a bitch.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 05:52 PM
13 hrs ago

So much for the moral standards of the Mormons. They're no better than those damn Evangelical hypocrites.

GiqueCee

(3,747 posts)
9. Lee apparently believes...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:10 PM
17 hrs ago

... that being a senator insulates him from taking responsibility for his words and actions. For instance, in October of 2020, he tweeted, “Democracy isn't the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity[sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that”.

Emphasis mine.

This is the kind of treacherous little shit that Lee really is. And it really shouldn't be necessary to point out that he's a Republican. What other swamp creature would say such a thing – in public?

GoneOffShore

(18,012 posts)
44. I don't bash A.O.C, Jasmine Crockett, Ruben Gallego, Andy Kim, Ted Lieu, et al.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 06:03 AM
1 hr ago

Schmuer and Jeffries need to take lessons.

GopherGal

(2,867 posts)
23. Now if only someone would put the "knee" in some of those jerks...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:21 PM
16 hrs ago

Not that I espouse violence or anything like that.

Just got done reading about Dipshit Dirtbag's video call with the hockey team and wishing someone was "elbows up" with him. The impunity is starting to get to me. Gotta go meditate or watch some "Leverage" or something.

Junipercity

(107 posts)
13. Lee is one of ours. But
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:26 PM
16 hrs ago

I didnt vote for the little weasel.
Smug and as phony as a $3 bill.
His campaign was funded from out of state. Can't stand the thing.

Ol Janx Spirit

(893 posts)
15. I'm not sure what "ours" means. he's definitely not one of "mine" being a Republican Senator....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:35 PM
16 hrs ago

I don't care if my own mother had funded his entire campaign--I wouldn't be voting for him.

Junipercity

(107 posts)
32. Oh I've lived in many strange neighborhoods.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:18 PM
15 hrs ago

Say! Didn't I meet you in the mines of Orion? My memory of those days are hazy.

I remember they had this drink...
😉

ToxMarz

(2,861 posts)
14. Live by the double standard. die by the double standard.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:33 PM
16 hrs ago

Abraham Maslow's "law of the instrument"

'If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail'

Bev54

(13,375 posts)
16. It seems the only time I hear about this idiot is when he has posted some stupid ass
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:38 PM
16 hrs ago

comment that needs to be walked back and taken down. Another slow learner.

Ol Janx Spirit

(893 posts)
17. What kind of sick MAGA "brain" do you have to have to leap to that connection?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:53 PM
16 hrs ago

And especially not to see the blatant comparison you are making to your own party's behavior to boot....

There is something really wrong with these people.

Derangement syndrome anyone?

popsdenver

(2,024 posts)
18. All of these Republicans do it:
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:54 PM
16 hrs ago

Make some "Off the Wall" statement, so that Fox News can "capture" it and broadcast it to their viewers or be quoted on Right Wing Radio,...........Then they quickly withdraw it.....

Years ago, the camera in the Senate and House, recorded the whole audience when ever a politician was speaking...........
Now the camera focuses in on only the person speaking, leaving the impression that he/she is speaking to the "whole" House or Senate audience.
But in fact, they are standing there speaking, camera zoomed in on them, and it is 2:00 am in the chamber and the only ones in the entire chamber are them and the cameraman.........cute, huh......

Just Jerome

(469 posts)
26. I recall
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:34 PM
15 hrs ago

when rafe cruz said, facetiously and in a pathetic Darth Vader impersonation, "Mike Lee, I am your father." Perhaps there was something to that, after all.

Maru Kitteh

(31,491 posts)
31. That's some nuclear-weapons-grade STUPID right there. Just stunning.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:09 PM
15 hrs ago

Was he huffing? Fell asleep in the sauna? Ran the car in the garage, little CO poisoning perhaps?

appleannie1

(5,440 posts)
39. He must be dumber than dirt. Robbers, cartel members, hit men etc. all wear masks because they are illegal dirt bags.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:30 PM
8 hrs ago

But I guess he knows ICE members fall in that catagory also and slipped.

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