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Marco Rubio needs to save himself and resign.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by jjgator55, Mar 3, 2025.

  1. Tjgators

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    Mental midget... that was all those people holding up auction signs last night and sitting for a kid with brain cancer. JD is the smartest guy in the room.
     
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  2. PITBOSS

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    I wonder if he wishes he stayed in the senate.
     
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  3. gator_jo

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    Imagine being Little Marco and thinking any of this would turn out differently. Or favorably.

    Imagine being a Trump supporter and thinking Trump will actually end up doing anything positive.

    It's amazing that those people still exist. But everyday is an off-ramp, folks. All you gotta do is embrace it, and be vocal about your change of heart. Better late than never .......... to stop supporting a felon, racist, rapist, traitor.
     
  4. G8tas

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    If he's the smartest guy in the room I wish he'd act like it
     
  5. duggers_dad

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    I suspect the Trump admin got Marco in a room and told him, no, we’re not going to fight the wars you want us to fight, so tamp down that fever.
     
  6. CHFG8R

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    Me too. Somewhat puzzling he would commit himself to this when he had that seat for life.
     
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  7. PITBOSS

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    agree. Listen just some of his questioning and what he has in his frontal lobe.

     
  8. mrhansduck

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    If Rubio had a genuine change of heart about foreign policy, it'd be interesting to know why, but his body language doesn't reflect that to me. If he has angled to be a mole or thinks he can push back from the inside, he's not a great actor. If he has simply caved for professional gain, that's obviously not a good look. At this point, I am open-minded about any range or combination of possibilities.
     
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  9. demosthenes

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    Even if he is, which I very sincerely doubt, it doesn’t mean he has a shred of moral fiber nor a good vision for the country.
     
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  10. PITBOSS

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    The US Sec of def is a significant position in our gov and for the world. IMO there is so much we don’t hear about the influence they can have globally. Maybe he thought he could do maga-speak, simplistic demagoguery and get the position and have an impact. However he’s now having to get in bed with Putin which everything we’ve seen is a 180 from his core principles. And Trump/vance/pete seem to be disregarding him and his position.

    he was confirmed 99-0
     
  11. mrhansduck

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    He's the Sec of State, though, which is a diplomatic position. Maybe the admin uses him for a little good cop/bad cop routine behind the scenes - the velvet part of the velvet hammer.
     
  12. CHFG8R

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    Better than 30-40 years in the Senate? I guess it depends on what you prioritize.
     
  13. Tjgators

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    Curious about what you watch and who you listen to that has shaped these opinions? What has JD Vance done to make you think 1. he has no moral fiber and 2. he does not have a good vision for the country?
     
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  14. citygator

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    Please. Donald Trump cut research funds for children's cancer, Alzheimer's, and a whole host of diseases indiscriminately. This family parades their pawn of a kid around while others will die at the hands of Trump and his random cuts of public funding. Either they are vulnerable to MAGA shit or they know and dont care. But you go on and pretend it's all normal.

    Federal judge blocks drastic funding cuts to medical research | AP News
     
  15. gator_jo

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    We just watched his sorry ass berate Zelensky, like Trump's angry little Chuckie doll. In service to Putin.

    Several months ago, we saw him literally justify to the press telling Trump's public racist lies about immigrants.

    JD Trump-Fluffer has the moral integrity of a stool sample.

    But then, Trump voters voted for a felon who is the only sitting President in US history to attempt to not peacefully transfer power. So what does that say about them ....
     
  16. VAg8r1

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    This is from a column on Marco Rubio as well Trump's other MAGATs by George W. Will a voice of the real conservative movement for at least the last 50 years.
    This is American greatness only if you have a MAGA-nifying glass

    Do Rubio’s muscles cramp during prolonged genuflections? He is, however, right, in his fashion: No president has ever before “stood up for America” this way, by turning U.S. foreign policy 180 degrees, away from supporting democracies toward rewarding war criminals. (Nine days before Donald Trump’s Oval Office berating of Ukraine’s president, the Financial Times website presented video of Russians murdering unresisting Ukrainian prisoners of war.) In a future X post, Rubio might elaborate on how courage featured in this reversal. Or in Trump’s pique about what he considers Ukraine’s insufficiently reiterated gratitude for the assistance Ukraine received from the Biden administration.

    So smitten is Trump with Vladimir Putin (“genius”), he cannot fathom that the Russian leader surely considers him a weakling. Putin knows that Trump knows, but is too servile to say, who invaded whom on Feb. 24, 2022.

    Vice President JD Vance is earning the description Winston Churchill applied to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles: a bull who carries a china shop around with him. Vance recently suggested on X that Europe’s largest war since 1945 is just another product of those tiresome Old World “ethnic rivalries.”

    Elon Musk, who, like Trump, confuses hyperactivity with achievement, is, like Trump, incapable of imagining how his incessant spouting off is making him smaller. When, last week, an X lunatic (“I know Barack Obama is a Kenyan”) said, “It’s time to leave NATO,” Musk had time and inclination to respond: “I agree.” Even while busily trying to erase mistakes made by the Constitution’s framers (e.g., creating Congress and the separation of powers), Musk has time and inclination to notice and opine about everything, including the need to end history’s most successful collective security organization.