Oh, the irony practically writes itself.
Senator Adam Schiff — yes, that Adam Schiff — took the stage at the Texas Tribune Festival and delivered what might go down as one of the most self-unaware speeches in recent political memory. The man who spent the better part of the last decade trying to torpedo President Donald Trump’s administration with an endless stream of headlines, soundbites, and let’s not forget, alleged evidence of collusion that never quite managed to surface, now wants America to know that politicians shouldn’t try to make a president or party “unsuccessful” just because they disagree.
Adam Schiff: We have to get past the “ruinous idea” of making presidents unsuccessful because of politics and “stop viewing each other as our enemy.”
You can’t make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/V4aWcl6qvC
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 15, 2025
Seriously?
You almost have to admire the gall. Almost.
Schiff — who just scooted into the Senate in 2024 after riding the coattails of the late Dianne Feinstein’s name recognition — suddenly wants to play elder statesman. Now he’s issuing vague, lofty statements about political unity and the dangers of treating opponents like enemies. “We have to get past that ruinous idea,” he declared, eyes full of concern, as though he hadn’t spent four years doing exactly that on every network that would book him. The man was practically a fixture on CNN, MSNBC, and anywhere else that would give him five minutes to tease that he had “seen the evidence” of Trump’s Russia ties — evidence that, shockingly, never made it past the talking point phase.
Now, he’s preaching media literacy and the evils of political division? You can’t make this stuff up.
Scott Adams hit the nail on the head when he said, “Schiff’s entire game depends on people not remembering what he said yesterday.” He’s banking on the same selective amnesia that gave us double-mask mandates from the same experts who told us masks weren’t necessary — a kind of gaslighting so casual it’s become a political strategy. And Schiff? He’s made a career out of it.
Let’s rewind. Schiff didn’t just accuse Trump of wrongdoing — he allegedly assured the American people he had the smoking gun. He didn’t. He was the lead impeachment manager during Trump’s first impeachment, pushing a rushed, partisan effort that even left legal experts scratching their heads. And let’s not forget, this was after years of Schiff parading across cable news claiming he had seen “direct evidence” of Trump’s collusion with Russia. Direct. Evidence. That… never materialized. The Mueller report? Nope. Nothing there. Just a lot of taxpayer money down the drain and a media cycle that kept CNN’s ratings afloat for another six months.
Says the guy who from 2017 through 2019 was seemingly on cable news every day saying he had seen “direct evidence of Russia collusion.” https://t.co/2emxeu0LFU
Should lawmakers avoid using politics to undermine a president?— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) November 15, 2025
But now, in 2025, he wants to lecture the country — from a stage in Texas, no less — about the dangers of partisanship and using political power to hurt presidents? The irony is so rich it could be taxed under California’s progressive surcharge. This is the guy who essentially made a career out of trying to kneecap a sitting president because he didn’t like the election result in 2016. But now that the political winds have shifted and President Trump is back in the Oval Office with Vice President J.D. Vance, Schiff is suddenly preaching unity and the moral high ground. How convenient.
The kicker? He said, “We have to stop viewing each other as the enemy.” From the same mouth that, for the better part of a decade, treated Trump supporters like second-class citizens and fed the country a steady diet of conspiracy theory spaghetti thrown at the wall to see what stuck. Spoiler alert: nothing did.
And yet, here comes Schiff, dressed in his usual moral superiority, giving a TED Talk about being “better consumers of information” — which really just sounds like code for “stop listening to people who disagree with me.” He wants Americans to stop rewarding media that divides us, while conveniently forgetting that he was the go-to talking head for years on the very networks that built their entire business model on division, fear, and a 24/7 Trump panic loop.
Critics didn’t hold back. Scott Adams, never one to mince words, pointed out that Schiff’s whole political strategy depends on voters having the memory span of a goldfish. And honestly? That’s not far off. This is the same playbook Democrats have run for years — create hysteria, claim you’re saving democracy, then turn around and pretend none of it ever happened.
“Pot meet kettle,” as Steve Guest aptly put it. It’s not just hypocrisy at this point — it’s almost performance art.
And that’s the real kicker: Schiff isn’t just another senator. He’s California’s senator now, elected to replace the late Dianne Feinstein. Which means he has even more of a platform to push this bizarre political amnesia onto the public — and even more of a responsibility not to insult everyone’s intelligence while doing it.
So when Adam Schiff gets up in front of a crowd and says we shouldn’t sabotage presidents for political gain, just know that he’s not having a change of heart. He’s just trying to rewrite history — and hoping you weren’t paying attention the first time around.
Because when it comes to Adam Schiff and “doing the right thing for the American people,” history suggests the only thing he’s really good at… is pretending.
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