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When the former special counsel insisted he had not gone to see the Atlanta **Hawks **play in that time period, Mr. Schmitt declared, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself,” and called Mr. Smith a “dirtbag.”

The accusation appeared to unravel almost immediately.

Invited to respond by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Mr. Smith said he had, in fact, attended a basketball game on that day, but it was to see the Iowa **Hawkeyes **at the University of Maryland. That night, Caitlin Clark, the star point guard who now plays in the W.N.B.A., scored 38 points and had 12 assists.

The guys sitting behind Senator Schmitt are two lawyers who work for him. He also likely had his staff vet the claims. Senator Schmitt was really mad at being called out on his lies.

The video is really something

Archived copy of the article — archive.is isn’t exactly a good actor, but they don’t require registration.

  • foggy
    194·
    3 days ago

    Dehumanizing humans is what they, the bad guys, the losers, do.

    They deserve as dignified a life as one can live within the confines of life sentence in a prison cell, in a civil society.

    You can hate what they’ve done more than anyone, but you can’t disagree, lest you be one of them. The bad guys. The losers.

    Humanity prevails within humans always. There’s a reason for it that the bad guys don’t seem to get. It’s the same reason you’re being downvoted.

    • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      I believe the “give peace a chance” is naive at best. The true irony is that the intellectuals and academics, who are usually advocates for non-violence, are historically the first to go.

      Get it over quickly, publicly, and don’t leave anyone alive as Antony demonstrated with Julius Caesar’s assassination.

      An example from our relatives - https://www.raffriff.com/blog/2022/12/alpha-male-baboons/

      The American revolution actually included a lot of what would be considered “crimes against humanity” with the more “benign” being tar and feathering targets.

      A recent example is an attributed source of annual “Pride fest” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

      Last thing is a double point. As a child after an altercation with three bullies vs me where I fractured the leader’s skull, broke the nose of another, and injured the spleen of the third I was both never bullied again and actually had a really good life at school. Further, given that experience versus non-evidence based arguments to the contrary, I will never believe “talking things out” can work.

      Humans are animals, violent ones at that, and submission doesn’t have a good history of with a good outcome.

      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I would say that imprisoning someone for life, regardless of the level of comfort, is no light sentence. Your old life is gone. The people you cared about, most will essentially or actually disappear from your life.

        Killing is not the only meaningful way to punish someone, and even fracturing a skull is not necessarily a greater harm to someone than imprisoning then for life.

      • FenrirIII
        1·
        2 days ago

        You can kill a man many ways with a good pen. It’s easier to hide, can quickly be disposed of, and harder to trace. The pen is very utilitarian.