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Miles Archer

(22,508 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:55 PM Monday

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

SWBTATTReg

(26,189 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
Monday

Pathetic.

RainCaster

(13,565 posts)
7. That's not possible
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:00 PM
Monday

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

(8,170 posts)
21. The fact that someone had to point out
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:16 PM
Monday

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

Response to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

MuirHero

(126 posts)
36. But they keep reelecting that son of a bitch.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 05:52 PM
Monday

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

GiqueCee

(3,773 posts)
9. Lee apparently believes...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:10 PM
Monday

... 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
Yesterday

Schmuer and Jeffries need to take lessons.

GopherGal

(2,871 posts)
23. Now if only someone would put the "knee" in some of those jerks...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:21 PM
Monday

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
Monday

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

(902 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
Monday

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
Monday

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

(2,862 posts)
14. Live by the double standard. die by the double standard.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:33 PM
Monday

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

(13,377 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
Monday

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

Ol Janx Spirit

(902 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
Monday

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

(2,051 posts)
18. All of these Republicans do it:
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:54 PM
Monday

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

(471 posts)
26. I recall
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:34 PM
Monday

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

(31,513 posts)
31. That's some nuclear-weapons-grade STUPID right there. Just stunning.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:09 PM
Monday

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
Monday

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

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