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Miles Archer

(23,334 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:55 PM Feb 23

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

SWBTATTReg

(26,262 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, 02:05 PM
Feb 23

Pathetic.

RainCaster

(13,728 posts)
7. That's not possible
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:00 PM
Feb 23

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

(8,532 posts)
21. The fact that someone had to point out
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:16 PM
Feb 23

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

Response to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

MuirHero

(148 posts)
36. But they keep reelecting that son of a bitch.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:52 PM
Feb 23

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

GiqueCee

(4,296 posts)
9. Lee apparently believes...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:10 PM
Feb 23

... 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

(18,021 posts)
44. I don't bash A.O.C, Jasmine Crockett, Ruben Gallego, Andy Kim, Ted Lieu, et al.
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 07:03 AM
Feb 24

Schmuer and Jeffries need to take lessons.

GopherGal

(2,910 posts)
23. Now if only someone would put the "knee" in some of those jerks...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:21 PM
Feb 23

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

(114 posts)
13. Lee is one of ours. But
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:26 PM
Feb 23

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

(1,017 posts)
15. I'm not sure what "ours" means. he's definitely not one of "mine" being a Republican Senator....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:35 PM
Feb 23

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

Junipercity

(114 posts)
32. Oh I've lived in many strange neighborhoods.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 05:18 PM
Feb 23

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

(2,943 posts)
14. Live by the double standard. die by the double standard.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:33 PM
Feb 23

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

(13,436 posts)
16. It seems the only time I hear about this idiot is when he has posted some stupid ass
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:38 PM
Feb 23

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

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,017 posts)
17. What kind of sick MAGA "brain" do you have to have to leap to that connection?
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:53 PM
Feb 23

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

(2,317 posts)
18. All of these Republicans do it:
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:54 PM
Feb 23

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

(496 posts)
26. I recall
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 04:34 PM
Feb 23

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

(31,773 posts)
31. That's some nuclear-weapons-grade STUPID right there. Just stunning.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 05:09 PM
Feb 23

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

appleannie1

(5,457 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, 11:30 PM
Feb 23

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

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