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\n\u201cIn an influencer-occupied government, the functions of elected and unelected officials converge on the same goal, which is making little videos for their distractible boss to watch on his phone, and later to watch other people talking about on his TV.\u201d defector.com\/jack-smith-e…<\/p>\n
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\u2014 ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com<\/a>) October 2, 2026 at 11:10 AM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
David Roth, national treasure, at Defector<\/em>:<\/p>\n
\nThe most salient part <\/a>of the accusation that Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt lodged against former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a Senate hearing on Tuesday is that it was wrong. It was ecstatically and grandiosely wrong, and obviously wrong in ways that even a rudimentary blog-level fact check would have caught. It was wrong in ways that would only be possible at this particular low ebb in American political and broader executive function\u2014based on unverified and unvetted information<\/a> given only to Republican senators by the Department of Justice, too hastily put to oafish misuse by well-credentialed chumps of roughly equal laziness and ambition in the pursuit of a spiteful but otherwise opaque end.<\/p>\n
In that sense, it is extremely familiar. If it hadn’t ended with Schmitt dangling upside down and blustering like the previously undiscovered suburban version of Yosemite Sam after becoming ensnared in his own malfunctioning perjury trap, it might not even have been news at all. In absolute terms, it was as stupid as more or less anything that’s happened on the floor of the United States Senate in a century or so, a half-assed 16x-speed gloss on McCarthyism from people who do not really know what that or anything else was, and whose attention spans have left them incapable of parsing even your wordier memes. In relative terms, this is just what our government is like much of the time.<\/p>\n
It is not difficult to see what Schmitt was trying to do, and it is extremely easy to see how and why he and his staff of pale and chittering Renfields screwed it up. That failure is grounded in a tragicomic lack of Ball Knowledge, but also in either a more overtly comic inattention to detail, an aversion to even light investigative work, or both. Schmitt et al went through the DOJ’s dump of Smith’s text messages and believed they had found evidence of him secretly attending an Atlanta Hawks home game against the Golden State Warriors on Feb. 3, 2024. Accusing someone of attending a Hawks game is rude on the merits, but neither libelous nor scandalous in its own right; why Schmitt believed this was newsworthy, let alone a suitably bouncy springboard to soft-launch his own vice presidential ambitions<\/a>, is something else entirely…<\/p>\n
It is true that none of it exactly adds up to anything, but also that is not really how senators like Schmitt understand their job at this moment. The patient is very sick, very vain, and almost unbelievably stupid; his heirs and viziers are loose and at prey throughout the world, trying to do and take and damage as much as they can before any of the institutions notionally charged with stopping this sort of thing bestir themselves to interrupt or even mildly inconvenience that predation. Schmitt belongs to one such institution, but he is doing a very different job. He is there, like the rest of his cohort, to tell that patient a story about himself, one in which he is both always in danger and always and inevitably victorious. The story doesn’t have to make sense, really; there is only one character in it who will ever matter, and Schmitt knows as much. He knows that his job is to keep the patient comfortable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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