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Adam Schiff, Steele dossier and the death
of shame in American politics

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Posted By: Garnet, 11/17/2021 4:00:29 PM

The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that "the only shame is to have none." The problem with shame is it assumes a sense of guilt over one's actions. In the age of rage, there appear fewer and fewer actions that are beyond the pale for politics. Take Adam Schiff and the Steele dossier. While even the Washington Post has admitted that it got the Russian collusion story wrong in light of the findings of Special Counsel John Durham, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is still insisting that he was absolutely right to promote the discredited Steele dossier.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: itsonlyme 11/17/2021 4:06:21 PM (No. 980729)
The Demented Fuhrer is proud of the work being done by Adam "Schutzstaffel" Schiff. It might lead to a promotion with a distinct armband.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/17/2021 4:11:28 PM (No. 980737)
Schiff knew the dossier was fake from the start, and was in on the Democrat plot to get Trump. Criminals never regret their acts, only getting caught.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator 11/17/2021 4:14:29 PM (No. 980739)
True believers still believe
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Reply 4 - Posted by: john56 11/17/2021 4:34:59 PM (No. 980762)
Isn't the ability not to have a sense of shame a requirement for Democrat leadership and their media lackeys?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Petronius 11/17/2021 4:59:44 PM (No. 980786)
In a just society, dishonest politicians like Schiff would be tarred and feathered.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: leonardo 11/17/2021 5:09:57 PM (No. 980800)
Many Democrats have NO shame … count Schiff among those. But it goes further than that. Long-term insistence on a supposed reality that has no proof behind it, and then is actually disproven, seems to indicate a mental problem if that person will not recognize that he was wrong and that his party’s activists engineered the hoax.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: kono 11/17/2021 5:15:54 PM (No. 980811)
Honor among thieves went extinct decades ago, about the time asshats like Alinsky became prominent. I'm surprised any shred of shame lasted in politics THIS long.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 11/17/2021 5:35:23 PM (No. 980833)
Hey, Jonathan Turkey - - people without souls or consciences cannot feel shame. Got it?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: judy 11/17/2021 9:09:55 PM (No. 981009)
It continues...Cheney is the new Schifff ...replacing Russia hoax with January 6th...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: watashiyo 11/17/2021 11:29:25 PM (No. 981071)
A bottom-dwelling scum of the earth and so are those who voted for him.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: doctorfixit 11/18/2021 1:37:26 AM (No. 981133)
Politicians are sociopaths. Sociopaths are incapable of shame. But they will react to shutting off their money and their ability to destroy Freedom. Let's Go Brandon. Turn Washington DC into a real swamp.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: ROLFNader 11/18/2021 10:57:05 AM (No. 981469)
Tell me again how Schiff is allowed to walk freely on this earth..........
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