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May 20, 2026

MAGA Senator SINKS After GOP Defense Post Blows Up In His Face

MAGA Senator Mike Lee's post to prove that the Republican party doesn't have a diversity problem immediately backfires. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Mike Lee apparently thought that he had a banger of a tweet ready to go, but unfortunately he instead just exposed his terminal case of donkey brains. He posted this, images of a black Republican congressman. And the tweet says, this is not the party of Jim Crow. Now he has [00:00:15] to say that because of course all the Republicans are rushing to gerrymander out of existence uh seats that are held by black elected officials. And so he thinks that this is proof that obvious, this is Jim Crow. I mean, we have these four guys. There are four of us. And it's a very [00:00:31] good point after all. I mean, if they have four black elected officials in a congressional delegation of 217, then that's really impressive, I said sarcastically. But it's actually even worse than that. Because did you know that not a single one of those men is still going to [00:00:50] be a Republican Congressperson next year? He's rushing to acknowledge them before they all leave. There is every reason to believe there's not going to be one Republican Congress person who is black after this election, but they're definitely not the party of Jim Crow. Now [00:01:07] a couple of them are leaving to run for other offices. Maybe they'll be successful in those. One of them ah is leaving because redistricting in Utah remade a seat as nominally democratic. And again, they didn't have to do any of this gerrymandering. So- Again, it's just it's so [00:01:23] ridiculous. There will still be one black member of Congress, but not in the House of Representatives. It'll be Tim Scott. Across the entire country, the entire party, two chambers of Congress, there will be one person who is black in the Republican Party. But it's not the party of [00:01:43] Jim Crow, obviously. Anyway, I'm just gonna end with, I just think that Alex Cole really put it well. Ha ha ha, look everyone, we have four black people. He can't even claim that he has four black friends, because I don't think he's friends with them. He just claims that they exist, Sharon. This is so sad. Remember when Tim Scott had a little bit of a conscience [00:02:05] and actually talked to Trump about doing things like posting the Obamas as apes or something like that. I mean, they're not real friends. He emasculated him while Tim Scott was sitting in the front row of multiple events. So listen. Now Trump will just say, where's my black instead [00:02:24] of where the blacks because there's just a problem will just be one left standing. But that kind of tokenism and tweeting out something or putting it up on true social when it matters to you. But we're not gonna say that he hasn't been around any black people, hell, whatever. He's [00:02:40] probably had that in his life, okay? He knows about the Central Park Five that he for years talked about wanting them to have the death. penalty when they were wrongly accused. So he knows something in his view about blacks, just not anything positive. Yeah, 100%. Look, [00:02:56] and again, we can like, we can, I guess own Mike Lee or whatever. The issue is that they have been successful in packing the Supreme Court with ideologically driven bigots who have given the Republicans what at the end of the day they've wanted for more than half a [00:03:13] century, which is the judicial mandate. to gerrymander out of existence black and brown political representation. And unfortunately, no matter what video we put out on YouTube, there's nothing right now that's going to stop that. Now, Supreme Court reform potentially could, maybe some [00:03:30] legislation, I don't know. But that at the end of the day has to be the solution. Not just pointing out that Mike Lee has donkey brains, everybody knows he has donkey brains, you can look at his face, you know he has donkey brains. It's making sure that different communities across America, including marginalized ones, are allowed to I don't have the freedom to [00:03:47] elect who they want. And Mike Lee doesn't want that. The Republican Party doesn't want that. And that is really sad for America.

The Damage Report: May 20, 2026

Hosts: John Iadarola   Guests: Sharon Reed