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You say Greenland, he says Iceland…

21 Wednesday Jan 2026

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…let’s call the whole thing off.

Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Today:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[January 21, 2026]

Greenland has clear strategic and geopolitical benefits to the United States.
We cannot afford to lose it to our adversaries.
The President is prioritizing the homeland and the Western Hemisphere, as he promised.
[…]

Some of the responses:

Then put more bases on there, there’s nothing stopping the US from protecting Greenland. Am I missing something?

Yes he keep calling Greenland ice land

Because he’s an idiot.

You can’t lose something that’s not yours to begin with, Senator Eric Schmitt .

Was this a concern of yours in September?

He’s prioritized the mineral interests of his friends.

Meet the new deal…
Same as the old deal 🎶

Or Iceland or whatever 🤣🤣🤣

KKKaroline Leavitt said, “No, no meant that Greenland is covered in ice!”
Jesus Christ, these people…

You are missing one thing – should the U.S. have absolute control over other countries?

We don’t need to own Greenland!

These are our Allies! You work with them not steal from them! They helped us during 9/11 the Danes helped us in Afghanistan! THEYRE OUR ALLIES!!!

Iceland you mean or is it Venezuela or is it Cuba or or or

Greenland or Iceland? Is he sure?

Wow, Missouri sure knows how to produce politicians…Schmidt, Hawley & Alford! Talk about winners…geez!

Trump thinks Greenland is Iceland😜🤡

Wait until Trump finds out Greenland is mostly covered with ice

YOU DOPE…..HE ALREADY BACK TRACKED ON HIS PLANS

Are people truly believing this nonsense?

There is no need for us to acquire Greenland… Please fix a problem at home.

Move there if you like it.

They don’t want him.

Greenland is so 2025. He’s moved on to Iceland now. Try to keep up

Heh.

Trump says Putin is not our enemy.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Or Iceland? Grandpa felon is confused.
He walked out with exactly what he had when he walked in. TACO

And he chickened out.TACO

We already have the ability to use Greenland for defense purposes. Forcing a takeover of any sort merely weakens our alliances and makes us less safe. It also undermines our soft power, preventing us from opposing territorial aggression by Russia, China, and anyone else for that matter. Monumentally bad idea.
And are you sure it’s not Iceland? The President repeatedly said “Iceland” today.

It was embarrassing. It’s equally embarrassing that you’re bootlicking.

Dumbest fucking timeline of America.

Making a complete fools of yourself is not “schooling” , well Ok, unless you’re MAGA.

Pretty embarrassing now isn’t it. You had a script and now you look like an idiot. Which, to be fair, you are.
But yeah – no one could make any sense at all from Trump’s Devos ramblings. But, on the bright side, his diaper didn’t leak at the podium. So – yippee. I guess.
Just a complete embarrassment.

Schmitt and Alford. Dumb and dumber.

Senator Schmitt wants to sabotage NATO, the greatest military alliance of the last century started by our own Harry Truman, in order to take by force a useless scrap of dirt that in no way belongs to us. Only Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin and every terrible despot in history have made the same argument. Sickening. You spit on Harry Truman’s grave.

Dementia Don doesn’t know the difference between Greenland and Iceland.

Gawd, the idiocy.

What a joke you are. Trump is the one being schooled. The USA can no longer be trusted, and our allies are moving on without us. It will take years to repair the damage he is doing. You are complicit.

Some notable quotes from Trump today in Davos:
Addressing a roomful of CEO’s at a reception: “Usually they say, ‘He’s a horrible dictator-type person.’ But sometimes you need a dictator.”
During his speech at the World Economic Forum: “Without us right now, you would all be speaking German.”
He said this in Switzerland, where 62% of the country speaks German.
Your boss is a fucking moron.
Our allies hate him.
Our adversaries are laughing their asses off at what a useful idiot he is.
YOU are complicit.
Dear god…please let tonight be the night. My champagne is chilling.

Missouri has strategic and political benefits to Portugal. Give it to them. Or they will take it by force. See how that works, you pathetic tool?
Conquest is not a legitimate foreign policy. The Nazis thought it was. So do you. Might makes right, huh?

I’m saving this post as evidence for when you deny ever supporting this man.

Batshit crazy

15 Thursday Jan 2026

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Today:

Eric Schmitt
[January 15, 2026]

Territorial expansion is a time-honored American tradition—think Louisiana Purchase, Alaska. We’re a frontier people—it’s in our blood.
Acquiring Greenland isn’t a silly idea. It makes all the sense in the world.

[….]

Geography still matters at sea.

Greenland sits astride the GIUK Gap—the northern gate to the Atlantic.

If adversaries can move submarines and sensors freely through it, they can threaten transatlantic reinforcement, undersea cables, and U.S. war plans.

As the Arctic becomes more navigable, it also becomes more contested.

More traffic means more survey ships, dual-use activity, and gray-zone operations.

[….]

Some people never get out of junior high school.

If Denmark, Iceland, and the United Kingdom are no longer allies because Donald Trump takes Greenland than the GIUK North Atlantic gap doesn’t mean shit.

No NATO, no North Atlantic trade, dumbass. No NATO, no need for reinforcements, dumbass.

“…As the Arctic becomes more navigable, it also becomes more contested…”

Is that because of, gasp, global warming/climate change, dickweed?

“[Eric] Schmitt is a Fascist doosh”

Some of the responses to Eric Schmitt (r):

It is a bat shit crazy idea. 75% of Americans oppose the idea. And the fact that you are even entertaining it should disqualify you from any public office in the United States of America.

What if Russia decided to expand and wants Alaska?

Trump (r) has set the precedent.

[….] We will lose NATO membership and every single base we have in Europe as well as the collaboration and goodwill of our longtime allies.

Sure…agree…it’s not a silly idea. It’s another idiotic idea concocted by our stable genius.

So, we need their resources?
We could call it operation lebensraum, that way the Germanic linguists in Greenland will feel heard.

Senator Eric Schmitt STFU, you Russian asset. Move already. Russia is calling MAGA to help fight their pathetic war where they’re being spanked by the Ukranians. Real patriots. Something you would know nothing about you fucking turncoat.

Mommy I want Greenland! Give me Greenland!!

I am speechless.😶 I am so ashamed of your statement, Senator. Maybe some reflection of what your duties of Senator entails and how you represent the state of Missouri – not the lawless regime.

We were surrounded by allies until the regime began threatening all of them.

You can help the current owners, who are NATO members and allies, secure it and prevent Russia or China getting a foothold. You would be welcomed and even celebrated.
But you can’t have it, it’s not for sale.
If you take it, you betray your allies and become just another China or Russia, a bully nation, and you weaken your own security rather than strengthen it.
This is a chance for the USA to show its quality. The world is watching.

“…This is a chance for the USA to show its quality…” Too late. That ship sailed in November 2016.

But, the Greenlanders have said, again and again and again, that they don’t want to be a part of the US. Why should we not respect that? Why do we need to be imperialist? Why do we need to threaten to take it by military force? Why are you all mouth-breathing morons?

No. We need to stay with NATO.

Bootlicking insanity

So are borders important or not?

This isn’t our territory. What is wrong with you?

This administration’s making us less safe. Not more.

Put the crackpipe down, Eric

Greenland is not a priority…at all. And it’s certainly not worth breaking our alliance in NATO. If you didn’t have your head so far up Trump’s ass, you’d see this.

We literally spent most of the 20th century pushing the world away from doing things that way, after it led to a pair of world wars that killed millions.
Even more ill advised to normalize wars of armed robbery in a world where nuclear weapons exist and are the most effective guarantors of territorial integrity. Nuclear proliferation will ramp up dramatically as smaller nations seek to protect their sovereignty.

It’s not a time honored anything. It’s Putin’s play book.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

The logical conclusion of this argument is that the US must control all territories, everywhere, or Russia and China will. Greenland is our ally and will cooperate with our national security interests.
I believe this is about “critical minerals”, which are “critical” to investments made by the President’s wealthy supporters, including his son.

Grifters.

Greenland says NO. What part of that don’t you understand? Sit down!

Resign.

If it is so vital to US strategic interests why have you closed 30 out of 31 bases you had on Greenland since the 1950s?

Nice way to say invasion.

Hitler took over Europe. So it’s ok???

Take Greenland and the world will be against us. We will have no allies and it will be us against the rest. This administration is doing so much harm to the world, pitting us against ourselves, wrecking an already fragile environment, and foreign policy is take what we want whether they like it or not. Something is going to break and I’m afraid it will be us.

batshit fucking crazy

You’re a damn idiot if you think this makes us safer. This destroys NATO, exactly what Russia has been trying to do since 1945 or so.

Sovereign countries aren’t territory to expand into, asshole. And, maybe get your own house in order before ruining yet another part of the world.

Fuck you, fascist.

It’s not too late to delete this staggeringly stupid post.

It is now.

Sounds like something the nazis would do.

Eric Schmitt you are a clown. White men in suits nothing but, lap dogs for another grown man. You all are tyrants. Greenland is not ours to take.

You were expecting anything else?

14 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Not us.

Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Hawley changes stance on war powers resolution after Trump backlash
by Alexander Bolton – 01/14/26 1:58 PM ET

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is shifting his position and says he will now vote with Senate Republican leaders to defeat a resolution that aims to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela.

Hawley, who backed advancing the measure last week, said he had received assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Trump will not deploy troops to Venezuela.

[….]

Your mistake – if you believed him.

“Josh Hawley (r) is Still a rat Bastard”

The company one keeps

21 Sunday Dec 2025

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Eric Schmitt
[December 20, 2025]

Ballin’ with Pete Hegseth

[….]

Ever thought of holding an open public town hall in, you know, Missouri? Just asking.

Some of the responses:

I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I was like Obama who was actually a shot caller. #YouAreTheCompanyYouKeep #NotAFlex

President Barack Obama (D) [2013 file photo].

Not quite the flex you think it is, Eric. “Ballin’”🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

Birds of a feather.

didja get him drunk first

Ballin’ requires balls. You’re just cosplaying. 🤡

Winner gets the minors! 👍🏼🤡

A bottle of Bourbon to the winner?

Whole lot of whiskey sweat there

Working hard for your constituents I see 🙄

Bench warmers

Pete just does it all! Pull ups. Basketball. Blowing up boats and double taps.
What a guy.

You thought this post cooked.

And the bro-dude manosphere goes wild with excitement!

God you’re tedious

Don’t ask, don’t tell.

Wee see what you did there.

Wow, do you guys actually work?

You guys got nothing better to do? Wild!

We are judged by the company we keep. You are not in good company.

That is, perhaps, a poor use of words or did you intend them to come off that way?

Go figure out a health care plan.

That’s nice. Miisiouran here trying to pay my bills. You’re out of touch.

Still waiting for you to do anything useful for the people of Missouri.

Who cares?

Photo ops, all day everyday. Look where I am, look who I’m with etc. Mediocre men of a feather…

Do you live in Missouri?

So cringe.

Don’t you have better things to do? Like fighting for the rights, healthcare benefits, etc. for the people from Missouri?
No… let’s play fucking basketball with pickled Pete.

Since you are clueless- you likely think this is a flex. It ain’t dude

“Crime. Boy, I don’t know.”

14 Sunday Dec 2025

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Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Friday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
December 12 at 9:16 AM

Americans do not have to live in crime-ridden cities. We don’t have to accept that anymore.
Democrats have condoned violence against law enforcement officers for too long, and now President Trump is doing something about it.
[….]

“…Democrats have condoned violence against law enforcement officers for too long…”

Some of the responses:

Weird how pretty much no city is “crime ridden”. Crime exists everywhere at some level. Red states have much higher crime rates than blue. The violent crime rate in your state is 28.7 percent higher than the national aveage, as is the rate for every measurable area of crime caregories. Maybe fix that. Google is free.

You will NEVER end crime in ANY of the world’s big cities; it’s always existed and it always will! BTW, all cities have crime, but to say they are crime-ridden is a gross misstatement. You can easily sell that line in rural red Southern and Midwestern regions where folks never venture very far from home. While on the subject of crime in cities, please remember white collar crime; it is not “victimless…”

Is this a joke?

Not connected with reality

We could make it harder to get guns? 🤷🏼‍♀️

There are officers called police. They take care of criminals and crime. ICE agents are suppose to go after people that are here illegally but instead they’re terrorizing the cities and being unlawful. People see what is going on and are they don’t want criminal agents in their cities.

“Missouri generally has higher crime rates, particularly for violent offenses like murder, aggravated assault, and rape, compared to the national average”.

Make lying wrong again

How Thankful were you on 1/6

Jan 6th…remember everyone

He’s another finger puppet

You’re so tough and strong and alpha.

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I usually dont try to argue with your kind , but just think about what you are saying , if you can .
Most republicans dont get jack from the government, they only pay taxes . Most democrats are living off the government, and their plan is to keep ushering in more and more , unlimited mouths to feed , unlimited people to take care of medically. Unlimited funds are needed for everything , yet no funds coming in .
If you remember the federal government bailed California out on day 1 when Biden took office, yet here they are again , California is bankrupt again .
You are really dumb , or you are a enemy of America. The idealogy of your party can not sustain itself , and it is a mathematical certainty it will collapse.
All the fraud that has been discovered, yet you still are on that path , you’re probably upset about the drug boats getting blown up , I could go on and on , you do know you can vote socialism in , but you cant ever vote it out , remember when the California people wanted to rid themselves of Newsom, didnt work did it .
I am not a very smart person , but I do have common sense . You ever ask a immigrant that escaped socialism about it , and wonder why they wanted out . You know China or any other government controlled population doesn’t have a immigration problem , wonder why .
Do you have any children , do you not care about the condition of their conditions when they grow up .
Ask a immigrant

the only true thing you said in all of that was “I am not a very smart person.”

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You make a claim, burden is on you to prove it.

Get rid of crime by being strict. Time to bring back hangings and the crime will drop. Make criminals pay.

You want me to believe that the guy who threatens judges, court workers, his victims, jurors, witnesses, and political adversaries cares about law & order, law enforcement, our judicial system, and human life?

To all of you mentioning Jan 6th, look up and watch the full unedited videos of what really went down. They are out now and over 90% of the jan 6th people were non violent and were given tours of the capital by the capital police. Look it up…

Oh I get it Senator Eric Schmitt sarcasm, this is sarcasm.

Not giving up my freedom for your fear.

There are no laws in the United States anymore. That all ended on January 6th.

Didn’t you guys just refuse to hang the plaque honoring first responders who protected the Capitol on J6?

No one wants a police state.

Baloney. Doing something is not arresting civilians who have not broken the law. And crime was on its way down in most cities.

We don’t have to be represented by criminals, either.

January 6th ring a bell?

J6? How quickly you whitewash

Sending military into our cities is hardly the solution. We should never be comfortable with that option.

I’ve been to all the big cities in Missouri. I am from a small rural town. Nothing I’ve seen in the cities shows they are as crime ridden as you’re claiming.

Almost as bad as people blocking off congress from certifying the 2020 election and condoning it by pardoning the J6 participants.

We see what you did there.

So…move

Heh.

President Trump is doing something about it, like pardoning people convicted of assaulting cops?

J6 was a democratic sherade. Trump said peaceful

Well, that settles it.

Honduran President??

“[Eric] Schmitt is a Fascist doosh”

“I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing.”

07 Sunday Dec 2025

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Eric Schmitt (r), this morning:

Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com‬

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?

SCHMITT: I’m not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances

S: What do you mean you’re not familiar? It’s been front page news

SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad

[….]

Dec 7, 2025, 8:59 AM

The transcript:

George Stephanopoulos: ….Do you support this pardon of the former Honduran president?

Eric Schmitt (r): I’m not familiar with the facts or circumstances, but I think what’s telling here is to try to imply that somehow President Trump is soft on, on, um, drug smuggling, uh, is just ridiculous. It’s totally ridiculous. He’s the, he’s, uh, provided border security like we’ve never seen before. And the fact is these cartels now because the southern border is closed, they’ve gone to the high seas. So President Trump is acting with his core Article II powers. No serious legal expert would doubt that the president has authority to blow, uh, narco-terrorists out of the water who are poisoning a hundred thousand Americans every year. If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there, that’s how many people are dying each and every year from the poison that’s coming from these narco-terrorists. So the fact is, George, President Trump has been delegated the authority by Congress to designate terrorist organizations. He’s done that. He sent a letter to Congress saying he was going to initiate these strikes. We’ve had regular briefings about it, including from Secretary of State Rubio, including from high ranking officials in the dep, Department of Defense. He’s executing those.

And so now what we have now are Democrats who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats. Yet were so blind to see that we had a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable in Joe Biden.

So, you know, forgive me if I’m a little skeptical that this isn’t all about politics and trying to, uh, take out, um, Secretary Hegseth. That’s what this whole things been about, George. They didn’t want him confirmed, they didn’t want a realist in place, they didn’t want a shift from their pet projects around the world in trying to build democracies in the sands of the Middle-East by the barrel of a gun.

We have core national interests at stake, the homeland and the western hemisphere and the rise of China. That’s what this administration is focused on. The Democrats are just upset about that and they try to create some controversy each and every week. And it goes nowhere.

George Stephanopoulos:: What do you mean, you’re not familiar with the facts and circumstances of the pardon. It’s been well reported all across the country, the former president of Honduras. He was convicted of con, of conspiring to bring in four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States, also, also guns and other materials. Uh, it’s been front page news across the country. Aren’t you, aren’t you curious about that?

Eric Schmitt (r): Well, I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. With your previous guest you had zero pushback because he’s, uh, giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad. But, to make the point, what I’m saying is you’re trying to, you’re trying to divert here the attention from what the American people actually support.

Seventy-five percent of Americans support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water….

[….]

What a dick. But we already knew that about Eric Schmitt (r).

Answer the question.

“…No serious legal expert would doubt…”

No true Scotsman

“…If you watched the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big 10 championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there…”

What does that have to do with the price of beer in Germany?

Wait, it’s the Department of Defense?

“…who have such x-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats…”

As opposed to, say, fisherman over a thousand miles from the United States?

“…Joe Biden…”

“Squirrel!”

“…a president for four years that was operating as a vegetable…”

Every republican accusation is a confession.

“…With your previous guest you had zero pushback…”

It’s because you’re such a tool, Eric.

“…like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad…”

And yet you’re there, Eric.

There is much hilarity in the responses on Bluesky:

SCHMITT: I don’t know anything about current events, but I do follow ABC’s ratings closely. I’m a US Senator.

“You’re trying to divert here…”

Yeah, tell us about it Schmitt.

If his ratings are so bad, why are you on his show?

These people are just lying ass, moronic, hypocrites who think everyone else is stupid.

Ever notice, that who ever the Republican is, they start talking fast, deflect the question, and or bring up a distant incident not related to the question. Like they have been caught and are trying to explain why they are innocent. They are all the same, feckless adults.

A true Nathan Thurm response.

Well, that guy is a dick. 🙄

Periodic reminder that Schmitt, like his partner in crime Josh Hawley (and hasn’t *he* been noticeably absent recently?) is a disingenuous hack.

Wow, Schmitt’s attempt to do an end run around the question is almost artistic in its desperation, like a student who has no clue how to answer the essay but is going to throw absolutely everything they have at you in hopes you won’t notice

“…I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn’t my fault! I swear to God!…”

Is there any other job you could keep by consistently stating that you don’t know anything about your work?

Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

One useless word among many

02 Tuesday Dec 2025

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Today:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[December 2, 2025]

Narcoterrorists are killing thousands of Americans every year.

President Trump & Secretary Hegseth have every right to destroy every narcoterrorist they can find.
The reality is, the Democrats have been trying to undermine Trump every step of the way. This yet another example.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Word of the year Narcoterrorist..

It’s right up there with other MAGA boogeyman target words, like socialism and immigrant.

don’t forget about “critical race theory” 🤣🤣

“illegal”

got another one… “univeral healthcare” 👻👻👻

“weapons of mass destruction “ 🤣🤣

And, DEI.

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Kinda weird when your boss pardons someone convicted of cocaine trafficking. Maybe you didn’t hear
[….]

Quiet piggy

18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.

ROFLMAO at this Drama Queen Dumbass.

“Narco-terrorist” is an oxymoron, and a made-up one at that.
Terrorists want to kill.
Drug dealers want to profit.
Dead customers don’t buy anything.

Sounds like you support war criminals Senator Eric Schmitt. If drugs were so damn important why has herr trump pardoned a couple major drug traffickers? You are pathetic Senator.

So Trump pardons one of the criminals at the top? Is there a drug strategy or does it depend on who you bribe?

MAGAs hate law and order and the Constitution!

If Eric only had a brain.

War crimes is not how you solve any problem

Senator Eric Schmitt If Trump really cared about addressing drug trafficking, why did he pardon a guy convicted of bringing 400 tons of cocaine into America?

Next will be el chapo

Azz kisser standing up for war criminals

PROVE they are drug smugglers. Period.

conveniently they killed any survivors on the boat to prove it

Yeah, that’s why Trump is pardoning drug kingpins from South American countries.
MAGAs are such idiots.

No, they don’t. These are crimes. You are complicit.

No sir, it’s murder plain and simple.

Is Trump pardoning more drug dealers today. That guy from Honduras helped El Chapo smuggle 400 tons of cocaine to the US. Convicted, got 45 years and Trump pardons him after 12 days.
They are off the rails.
How about law and order and justice.
So sad so terrible

Fox News. So reliable Eric. Your are a tool!

Who did Trump just release from prison?

Some serious boot licking

Trump is PARDONING narcoterrorists…former Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández, and Ross Ulbricht, founder of dark web drug site, Silk Road.
Trump’s own son is a coke addict. We’ve seen him reaching into his pocket to rub some between his cheek and gums, ON CAMERA, IN PUBLIC, STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO HIS DAD.
And, NO…Hegseth does NOT have the right to blow people out of the water when we are NOT AT WAR, and when there is ZERO evidence, and when there is NO congressional approval!
What a SHITTY lawyer you are!
Trump is trying to start a war with Venezuela for their OIL.
Stop bullshitting us, Schmitt.

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It is happening here (October 31, 2025)

Always Be Grifting

11 Tuesday Nov 2025

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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith’s team.
[….]
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM

Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5371, As Amended)
Vote Number: 618 Vote Date: November 10, 2025, 08:58 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2V ote Result: Bill Passed
Measure Number: H.R. 5371 (A bill making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes.)
Measure Title: A bill making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 60
NAY s40

[….]

Hawley (R-MO), Yea

Schmitt (R-MO), Yea

[emphasis added]

What they voted for on Monday:

H.R.5371 – Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026

[….]

Requiring Senate Notification for Disclosure of Senate Data

[….]

(B) ALL OTHER INVESTIGATIONS.—For any investigation in which a Senator is not a target of a criminal investigation, the notice requirements under this subsection shall apply without delay.

(d) Private cause of action.—

(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:

(A) INSTANCE.—The term ‘instance’, with respect to a violation of this section, means each discrete act constituting a violation of this section, including each individual—

(i) device, account, record, or communication channel subject to collection in a manner in violation of this section;

(ii) nondisclosure order or judicial sealing order sought, maintained, or obtained; or

(iii) search conducted.

(B) VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION.—The term ‘violation of this section’ means—

(i) the seeking, maintaining, or obtaining of a nondisclosure order or judicial sealing order to prevent notification of a Senator, a Senate office, or the Office of the SAA as required under subsection (c); or

(ii) Senate data was acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed pursuant to a search, seizure, or demand for information without notice being provided as required under subsection (c).

(2) CAUSE OF ACTION.—Any Senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency.

(3) RELIEF.—

(A) IN GENERAL.—If a Senator prevails on a claim under this subsection, the court shall award—

(i) for each instance of a violation of this section, the greater of statutory damages of $500,000 or the amount of actual damages;

(ii) reasonable attorney’s fees and costs of litigation; and

(iii) such injunctive or declaratory relief as may be appropriate.

(B) PRELIMINARY RELIEF.—Upon motion by a Senator, a court may award such preliminary injunctive relief as the court determines appropriate with respect to a claim under this subsection.

(4) LIMITATIONS AND IMMUNITY.—

(A) PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS.—A civil action under this subsection may not be commenced later than 5 years after the applicable Senator first obtains actual notice of the violation of this section.

(B) NO IMMUNITY DEFENSE.—No officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency shall be entitled to assert any form of absolute or qualified immunity as a defense to liability under this subsection.

(5) WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.—The United States expressly waives sovereign immunity with respect to actions brought under this subsection.

(6) AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FOR TARGET INVESTIGATIONS.—It shall be an affirmative defense to an action under this subsection if the United States establishes that each of the following requirements are met:

(A) At the time the Senate data was acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed, the Senator bringing the action was a target of a criminal investigation.

(B) A Federal judge issued an order authorizing a delay of notice to the Senator under subsection (c)(3)(A), based on written findings meeting the requirements of such subsection.

(C) The United States complied with the order described in subparagraph (B), including that the delay of notice did not exceed the period authorized by the court.

(D) Any related subpoena of, warrant relating to, or access to Senate data was carried out strictly within the temporal and subject-matter scope authorized by the order, if any, authorizing the subpoena, warrant, or access.

(7) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to—

(A) limit or impair the constitutional protections afforded to Members of Congress, including to protections under article I, section 6, clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States (commonly known as the ‘Speech or Debate Clause’); or

(B) restrict the authority of the Senate or any Senate office to intervene in or defend against any legal process seeking disclosure of Senate data.”.

(b) Limited retroactive applicability.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to any acquisition, subpoena, search, accessing, or disclosure of Senate data (as defined in section 10(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 6628(a)), as amended by this section), and to any failure to disclose such an acquisition, subpoena, search, accessing, or disclosure, occurring on or after January 1, 2022.

(2) PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS.—

(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the term “violation of section 10” has the meaning given the term “violation of this section” in subsection (d) of section 10 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 6628), as added by this section.

(B) PERIOD.—With respect to any violation of section 10 with respect to which the applicable Senator first obtained actual notice of the violation of section 10 before the date of enactment of this Act, a civil action under subsection (d) of section 10 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 6628), as added by this section, may not be commenced later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act.

This division may be cited as the “Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026”.

[….]

[emphasis added]

“…If a Senator prevails on a claim under this subsection, the court shall award— (i) for each instance of a violation of this section, the greater of statutory damages of $500,000 or the amount of actual damages…”

“Clean Continuing Resolution” my ass.

If only there was some political party in control of both houses of Congress…

02 Thursday Oct 2025

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You’d think.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[October 1, 2025]

Day one of the Schumer Shutdown: Democrats continue to choose petty politics over the American people.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Y’all COULD vote by simple majority to END THE FILIBUSTER, and then pass your own CR – but you don’t WANT to – that’d take away your scapegoat…

What are you doing for affordable health insurance for all Americans?

that is what this shutdown is all about. The MAGA party wants to make it unaffordable. They always tear things apart and no solutions. Health insurance premiums in this country know no party lines, we are all impacted.

The republicans are allowing the subsidies for the public that help people get affordable health insurance to expire. When they expire everyone getting insurance through the ACA will have their premiums DOUBLE or more. Basically it makes the ACA useless to help people afford health insurance. That’s what the Democrats are fighting the Republicans to keep.

He’s going on Faux news and telling lies.

Its simple, compromise to fund Healthcare for American citizens. Truly America First. Or, is that just a slogan that you don’t mean?

They NEVER meant it.

Fellow Americans do your research on what’s at stake;
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA, 1986)
Requires hospitals that accept Medicare to provide emergency care to anyone, regardless of citizenship, immigration status, or ability to pay.
This is why undocumented immigrants cannot be denied emergency treatment.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA, 1996)
This welfare reform law explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from most federal public benefits, including Medicaid, Medicare, and welfare programs.
It carved out only limited emergency Medicaid access for life-threatening situations.
Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010)
Specifically excludes undocumented immigrants from buying insurance through the federal Marketplace and from receiving subsidies.

Do you really think we believe you? Cuz we don’t lol

N’ah, bro…that never happened. Did you shit this out with your morning coffee?

I will Vote for Presdient Trump each year

Slept through civics classes in school.

Yeah, that’s not what’s happening. Try looking to the voters needs. No illegal gets free shit. But I’m a senior that faces cuts snd higher costs due to increasing cuts to.my services. I paid into this system for 60years and now you expect me to keep paying more.

A 6th grade reading test should be a requirement to become a registered voter

Or a senator, apparently.

So the democrats that don’t control anything have the power to shut it all down? Are you getting paid?

You were a liar here in Missouri, and you still are. We know you know this is a lie, you moron.

THE SAME PARTY THAT CLAIMS TO BE PRO-LIFE doesn’t want to provide affordable healthcare. how is that pro-life?

Ripping millions from affordable Healthcare while doubling premiums… petty. 🤦‍♂️

Argentina is getting $20 billion.

Liar! You want to remove the assistance that people are getting from ACA. Under MAGA (the GOP no longer exists except in name only), their health care will no longer be available or so expensive they can’t afford it.
Your healthcare is FREE!
This is a MAGA shutdown and you know it, but will not admit it. The shutdown in 2019 was under Trump with the GOP controlling both houses. That didn’t work out then and cost taxpayers billions.
Work at finding a resolution by working with the Democrats. They were there and ready and MAGA was not.

Petty politics? Protecting healthcare is petty politics?
Go to hell Mr. “We are a white christian (Lincoln was wrong) nation.”

This on the Republicans not the Democrats!

Y’all think Americans are stupid, huh?

Yes. This has been another episode of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Holy shit you think everyone is fuckin stupid
You own the government. It’s YOUR shutdown, Dumbfuck

That be the Republicans.

Quit telling lies, Eric.

It’s the trump shutdown you fascist collaborator.

I see like a beautiful GOP ass kisser, you’re posting exactly what you were told. How pathetic. You’re supposed to be working for your constituents, not lying to them. History will remember you people.

GOP House, GOP Senate, GOP exec, GOP shutdown.

Yeah…who in Missouri needs affordable Healthcare anyway???

Fighting to restore ACA subsidies cut by Republicans is hardly petty.

Keep embarrassing yourself, Schmitt.

And republicans are trying to take away programs that help the neediest families so they can support tax breaks for the rich. Same old story. Why did the republicans run away without settling the budget?

You are a liar

Yeah, Medicare cuts are petty politics! 🤣

Republicans are so pro life, they’ll do anything to keep you from being able to afford healthcare.

Hogwash!! Republicans erroneously believe because they control the house, the senate and the White House, that governance (negotiating to make deals) is not required as they attempt to shove their agenda down the throats of Americans. Clearly, republicans don’t have the nuggets to refuse to “kiss the ring” but democrats do.

Republicans control the White House the Senate and Congress. Yet you’re blaming Schumer? It’s because you don’t want to own what’s going to happen next. Own it you did it. And stop lying

Eric, I’m curious, for what did you sell us out? Did they promise you your own little kingdom? US citizens are going to pay a heavy price for that. Do you recall reading, ” For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? ” Mark 8:36.

“A shutdown means the president is weak.” -Donald Trump

No…you own this!

Undocumented immigrants are not entitled to the health care benefits demanded by the Democrats, and the party hasn’t called for this to be changed.
Vance will know this, and several journalists subsequently point it out to him. However, that doesn’t stop the vice president from repeating the statement several times.
Like him, other Republicans are doing the same in these first hours of the shutdown. True to the motto that the most important goal of the government shutdown is to exploit it for their own purposes. But the force with which the Trump administration has responded to the government shutdown from day one suggests that the current escalation is part of a precise, larger plan.
Republicans will stop at nothing when it comes to dismantling the government.

Nope. It’s the GOP shutdown. Y’all can spin it all you like.

So, Trump is continuing construction of his 250 million dollar ballroom while troops go without PAY???

Petty? To us commoners healthcare or lack of it can mean keeping our job and home or losing it all.

This is on the rebublicans. You have to actually show up to negotiate and vote. Your fellow R’s were out fundraising vs working. You are a pathetic politician

Funny how you call it the Schumer shutdown but all the Democrats are in DC waiting for you Republicans to come back and negotiate with them. You do realize that to negotiate means to talk about the differences and come to a mutual agreement. If you refuse to even talk to them, YOU own the shutdown.

Healthcare isn’t petty.

Better than choosing petty billionaires over the American people.

It’s a Republican shutdown, you piece of shit.

Republicans only like tax cuts for billionaires. You can’t give tax breaks to the rest of us.

The republicans refused to come to the table.
They just want to blame the democrats.
Republicans do not care for their constituents, they just want to line the pockets of of their cronies

You spelled “GOP Shutdown” wrong.