Eric Schmitt
[February 20, 2025]
[….] UPDATE: Final vote to confirm Kash Patel is at 1:45pm Eastern TODAY. Over the last four years the FBI has gone after Catholics, parents and political opponents. Kash will reform the agency and not a moment too soon.

Some of the responses:

Let’s be honest about the predicament we’re in.
Trump has the DOJ and the FBI and Congress.
Musk is running around doing illegal things and Trump doesn’t care and will do nothing to stop him, nor will anyone in his administration.
Congress can put a stop to all this immediately, but won’t, because Trump has Congress.
Democrats can resist legally all they want, but the Administration is acting illegally with near impunity, and again, the Republican Congress is not only giving it a pass, they are openly supporting this illegal activity.
But if Democrats attempt to act “extra-legally” to remove Musk and possibly Trump, Trump could order his FBI to arrest them and his DOJ to charge them with sedition. Why not? They’ve already threatened arrest, deportation, etc. of Democrats merely for exercising their free speech rights.
So then we’re in a situation where we have to hope there are people in the DOJ and FBI who would refuse these orders. Except that Trump would fire every person who resists his orders, throwing both agencies into chaos.
So Democrats, in an effort to avoid plunging the country into an even worse nightmare, are trying to resist legally through the courts and every legislative wile at their disposal.
Pretty easy to “run circles” around the other side when you don’t give a shit about legality, isn’t it, @Eric Schmitt?

Reform the agency into what? What really does it Patel really bring to the table? Does he follow the constitution or follow one man?

He is totally unqualified as are most of Trumps picks.

Sure would be great if you grew a spine.

So you want the FBI to be revamped so that it cannot go after a president’s political opponents, and yet you fully support Trump forming a close political and economic relationship with Putin? I’m not sure exactly what you have been doing in the last few years, but you do realize that Putin’s MO is to go after his political opponents. Does Navalny ring a bell with you? He was imprisoned and tortured and ultimately died in prison for trying to run a democratic campaign against Putin. Putin seems to have two methods to deal with his political opponents, either imprisoning them or encouraging them to take the short way out of a five-story building, as in out the window or tumbling down the stairs. Oh, I forgot blowing up their airplane. He does that, too.

I would like to say that you are a steaming pile of dung. On your good days. Your bad days are worse. However, that would be rude, right? So can I just ask you to please consider encouraging Trump to actually acknowledge the Constitution and to act accordingly? Oh, and while you are speaking to him, can you ask him please to leave any countries that aren’t dictatorships in our good graces?

Awful – Trump, Patel, Gabbert, Vance, Rubio, and Hegseth – selling us and out allies out to Putin

Kash Patel is a joke.
Kash Patel should never be allowed inside the FBI. He is perhaps the most dangerous of all the Trump nominees. He shamelessly wants to turn the agency into Trump’s loyalty police.
He is an unmitigated and unqualified disaster. He published a literal enemies list — stuff straight out of the McCarthy Era.
My prediction is that Republicans will come to regret today’s confirmation vote, more than any other, to their grave. Senate Republicans are in a cult and refuse to see it. They are putting loyalty to Donald Trump above rule of law.
I’m going to continue sounding the alarm. A lot of people in Washington want us to be quiet and stop making their lives harder. But I refuse because, to me, it is plainly obvious that this is a dire Constitutional crisis.

Trump & Musk = The Great American Grift

Wrong choice!! You just cannot fix stupid.!

This tough guy persona he’s adopted is unappealing. He looks like he’s spending too much time with his image consultants.
Eric can’t possibly worry about Kash’s suspect financial dealings or his taking the Fifth a couple of years ago. Schmitt finds it easy to overlook the enemies list and the lies Patel told during his hearing.

Quit lying, Schmitt.

And he’ll what, get even? So when is the town hall, Senator? We want to hear you explain how these miscreants earned your support.

We know you are pulling an all nighter to gut Medicaid. Stop being spineless and stand up for your constituents. We know you voted Yes for Patel who is dangerous and unqualified.

Dear Republicans;
We get it. You all saw what he did to Liz Cheney, and you don’t want that to happen to you. Short of outright political banishment, if you displease him in the slightest, he might even mean-tweet you from his golf cart in Florida. You all tremble at the mere thought of that.
And he knows it, which is why he does it; to control you. To get you to confirm the most unqualified Cabinet secretaries in American history. If the gravity of that situation wasn’t so solemn, it would be comical.
But what’s done is done. You didn’t want to suffer the indignity of being mean-tweeted, so you seated a drunk who paid a woman $50,000 to buy her silence to become America’s Secretary of Defense, an anti-science conspiracy theorist for Health and Human Services and a man who openly hates the FBI to run it.
You’ve watched in silence as his hatchet man—or should I say his chainsaw man—has wiped out the careers of untold thousands of Americans, the cascading effects of which will no doubt threaten the very existence of poverty-stricken communities who rely on America’s bounty and generosity.
You fidgeted in your seats a bit when he shook his fist at Mexico, Canada, Panama and Denmark. But no outright condemnation from any of you, because again, you can’t: the spirit of Liz Cheney might haunt you.
You’re in a unique position. Hard as it is to believe, you’re the gatekeepers. Once upon a time, in a magical epoch known as pre-Trump, Congress was a coequal branch of government. That means YOU had it within your power to keep lawlessness and tyranny in check.
But that was then and this is now. You’ve ceded your authority because; say it with me: Liz Cheney.
In the hierarchy of things that matter to you, in order from most to least, are:
• Me
• My personal safety
• Not getting mean-tweeted
• Getting re-elected
• People who won’t vote for me
• People in shithole countries
• The nation
At the far end of the courage spectrum from you and at the far side of the planet, there’s a guy named Volodimr Zelenskyy. He must look like an alien species to you, because his priorities are diametrically opposed to yours. When offered a chance to be airlifted out of his embattled nation, he turned it down and confronted the threat pouring over his nation’s borders. He then addressed his people from a darkened corner somewhere in Kyiv, reassuring them that he and his government will stand and fight on their behalf.
But now he and his 38 million fellow Ukrainians face a new threat: Blatant betrayal by the President of the United States. If Trump follows through with it, Zelenskyy himself, perhaps the most iconic example of raw courage in the world today, will be hunted. And if captured, meted out Navalny justice.
But that can only happen if you let it.
Yes, I know, you murmur amongst yourselves over martinis how you had to swallow hard to vote for Tulsi Gabbard, or to stay silent when he gutted the USAID and the national parks. But unless you take a hard stand, and say HELL NO, I’m drawing the line right HERE… you’re as complicit as he is.
This quote has never been more relevant: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
This is your moment. History will document your names right alongside his. I’m looking at you, Lindsey the Lionhearted. Ted the Turd. Joni, Queen of Castraters. Rise up. Fear not the mean-tweet.
Liz Cheney knowingly sacrificed her career, as did Adam Kinzinger, because they made the calculus: Who am I and what are my core values? And they deduced that there are bigger things in this world than themselves.
Thus far, not a single Republican in this picture has come to a similar conclusion.
Cowards, all. And if you allow Ukraine to fall by your inaction, you’ll be accomplices in mass murder, as well as the beginning of the end for NATO.

Work for Missouri not for Trump

What a spineless jellyfish.

Pick up your damned phone.

I’m at the point where I can hardly breathe, Republican stupidity and insanity is off the charts. You’re rushing headlong off a cliff and taking the entire country with you.

Please host a town hall in Kansas City. We’d love the chance to chat with you.

I can’t believe you voted to confirm Patel!!!! He is not qualified to run the FBI! You are a disgrace and a coward !

I cannot believe you voted to confirm y this completely unqualified individual. You can’t wrap this turd in any way and convince any of your constituents otherwise. Don’t even try Senator Eric Schmitt.

You look like a clown that just stumbled out of his car.

Well ladies and Gentlemen welcome back McCarthyism

Medicaid cuts for tax breaks for billionaires?

Anyone that agrees with Kash Patel’s confirmation is against the rule of law and could care less about the FBI becoming weaponized by the Orange Stain! The only things these losers are doing is sh*tting all over our country! Schmitt is nothing more than a typical bought off Republican!

And now you want them to go after democrats, parents, doctors, and anyone that disagrees with President musk and the tyrant.

I remember back in the 90s David Duke ran as a Republican against a Democrat who had a reputation for corruption. Republicans proudly voted for the Democrat because they didn’t want a goddamn Nazi. Your party has fallen so far and so hard.

You people are so freaking gullible it’s beyond belief. I now have no reason to believe that if Trump said, “I’m turning over the keys to our nuclear arsenal to Putin” you wouldn’t be OK with it. I’m not seeing any red line here.

Do you ever not speak out of your ass? You are an embarrassment to Missouri. You are selling our country out to Musk and Putin. Kash Patel is unqualified nut job. Grow a spine!

Do you have no morals? Examine yourself, we are being sold out

Wow. You really are batshit crazy

What a piece of shit.

You are such an ass.

Please stand up and vote no. Your constituents are sick of you confirming people who are UNQUALIFIED! Quit being a bootlicker and get some courage!

Vote No. He’s not only unqualified, he’s a danger in the position but we all know you’ve got rug burns for Trump

I called your office today to let you know how disappointing it is to see your golf buddy blame the democratically elected leader of Ukraine get blamed for a dictator invading his country and killing his countrymen.

BS. The FBI has not gone after Catholics. You can’t even back this shit up. Meanwhile you have Trump and Musk doing actual illegal things and you just don’t care because they are republicans. You’re disgusting.

Kash Patel is unqualified, inexperienced and unfit to lead the finest law enforcement agency in the world! Anyone who watched or experienced Jan. 6 will vote AGAINST this incompetent, vengeful fool.

according Schmitt, the FBI has been attacking Catholics. The Catholic church in town is still open, none of my Catholic friends or relatives have been arrested for being Catholic. Maybe Herr Schmitt is full of schitt.

You must think we’re idiots who watch Fox to get our “news”. You insult our intelligence. Do I need to list all of the nut job conspiracy crap that Kash has spewed, and some from not that long ago? He is singularly the most unfit individual to have ever been confirmed for this position. Full stop. And you darn well know it. Yours and all of the Republican cowards in Congress’s day of reckoning will come when you will have to answer for your party over country nonsense all in fealty to one of the most morally depraved human beings to have walked this earth. Shame on you. How you sleep at night is a complete mystery to me. You may try to fool yourself or justify your actions, but please understand that some of us are actually capable of critical thinking, so please keep your alternative facts to yourself. Thanks!

You’re a fucking idiot
Trump boot licker
Screwing the America people hope they vote you out

How are you allowed to post pure propaganda? Patel has publicly stated he is going after people who disagree with him. You know how that story ends, right? History will take note.

You’re a traitor to the US Constitution and should be ashamed of what you’re doing.

I thought republicans were supposed to be against defunding the police. Defunding, the f b I is only gonna mean terrorists are going to be able to attack us even easier than before. How about waking up and serving your actual constituents instead of a billionaire bureaucrat and a wannabe dictator. Federal workers are losing their jobs, and this is going to cause recessions in kansas city and other places.And what are you doing about it?Absolutely.Nothing except for kissing trump’s rear end. Absolutely, pathetic.You should be ashamed of yourself

Hey Schitty Schmitty, they’re laying off 100 IRS agents in KC today! In the middle of tax season! Now your constituents can expect delays in processing their returns and receiving their refunds! #somuchwinning!
You idiot.

You said Trump was justified in stating that Zelenskiy and Ukraine “started it.”
You’re out of your goddamned mind.
If there’s a hell, there’s a reserved space for you there.

You are deluded. Shameful.

Hey Eric Schmitt ya punk, Trump just told Canada to become our 51st state again. Please explain how this behavior from the senile Diaper Don is acceptable Presidential behavior, punk.

Hey, what about all of these veterans that are getting fired by the Anti-Constitutional President Wankpanzer and his little buddy, Prince Cheeto?
I mean, thanks for our service but then fuck the veterans, right?

I guess if you want a Russian agent in the FBI? [….]

You’re so full of shit, Eric. Saw your little interview yesterday. The one where you couldn’t even look up while you were sing Donnie’s praises and siding w Russia over Ukraine. Spineless, boot licking, puppet. We’re watching you.

At this point you are just a coward and a traitor. You are a mouthpiece for a man who thinks himself king.

Despicable

Asshole

Bootlicker

You spineless salamander .

OK brownshirt. [….]

Ok…goosestepper

Fuck you.

You’re an idiot

Resign you complicit pandering lying hack

You commie traitor.. A Putin call-boy and facist neo nazi.

Spineless moron. So against gays but kissing Trump’s ass is OK with you? Spineless and worthless piece of shite