the 99-0 vote to confirm Rubio was easily the biggest sign that most Dems still have no idea what they're dealing with I'm sure it's hard to believe that the genial guy you shared Senate lunches with is a world-historic monster - but they must recognize that there are no more Good Republicans - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 7 days ago

the 99-0 vote to confirm Rubio was easily the biggest sign that most Dems still have no idea what they're dealing with

I'm sure it's hard to believe that the genial guy you shared Senate lunches with is a world-historic monster - but they must recognize that there are no more Good Republicans

Reposted from Brian Beutler

I don’t know if Rubio’s the most dangerous senior Trump appointee (it’s really the assemblage of willful thugs, more than any one) but he’s definitely the phoniest. Good roundup. newrepublic.com/article/1930...

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blank.org•6 days ago

Everyone is looking around nervously, trying to figure out who the Steve Mnuchin or Scott Gottlieb of Trump 2.0 is gonna be and apparently it’s gonna be a while before the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body and Naturally Occurring Retirement Community catches on that there isn’t and won’t be one.

billthepony.bsky.social•7 days ago

Been trying to tell libs i am not calling for a Schumer to step down only because of the CR vote!

scottwithrage.gobirds.online•7 days ago

It is so infuriating watching Schumer be like "they're good guys behind closed doors where no one can hear what they say!"

schwartzmatt81.bsky.social•7 days ago

Seems way more likely that they’re all monsters behind closed doors

beccastevens.bsky.social•7 days ago

The fact that they play good guys to the Dem pol’s faces while being monsters in public means they are monsters overall. I absolutely buy that they are hand wringing and playing nice to Schumer’s face. He’s severely misreading the moment if he thinks they are sincere.

asthepalacesburn.bsky.social•6 days ago

They are just corrupt assholes. Everyone knows Rubio is a neocon psychopath.

the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social•7 days ago

Exactly. He went and negotiated the deal to outsource concentration camps to El Salvador, which says it all.

And, never one to miss out on a photo op, Kristi Noem is due to go there soon, too.

Wonder what she’ll wear…

ginafly.bsky.social•5 days ago

He literally did human trafficking over fucking flower tattoos so yeah.

michaelblanding.bsky.social•6 days ago

Regardless, Little Marco will surely be thrown under the bus when it’s time to need a scapegoat

lexys.wtf•7 days ago

The fact that they don't, especially with Rubio, is so damning.

They (and the media) always treated him as "one of the reasonable ones". And yet the obvious happens as soon as he gets any kind of power.

The Dems are at least 2, probably 3 or 4 realistically, decades behind the curve.

kjmooremusic.bsky.social•7 days ago

The establishment Dems are stuck in 1997, & have zero interest in working w/ or for working class Americans.

kjmooremusic.bsky.social•7 days ago

“There are no more good Republicans”. That’s it, right there. 👏👏👏

pamnapo.bsky.social•7 days ago

There are no good Republicans is the only take to have 2 months into this administration.

savemelordtoo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Don’t worry, the bus is coming for little Marco.

peace-pangolin.bsky.social•7 days ago

Liberals don't recognize evil when they see it across the table for the same reason they don't recognize it when they look in the mirror

democracymichelle.bsky.social•7 days ago

That, or they’re complicit. Either way, it sucks donkey balls.

lukegarrett.bsky.social•7 days ago

My new litmus test for Dems: should Marco Rubio go to prison?

carlpavlock.bsky.social•7 days ago

Even if he was a good guy in the lunchroom, Vonnegut said it best, "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

theultrasecret.bsky.social•7 days ago

The Dems continue to believe that a strong GOP is necessary, and that they can play an active role in helping to rehabilitate a Republican party that has merely lost its way. It's an absolutely disastrous, time wasting, morality draining conclusion to have drawn.

theradiostar.bsky.social•7 days ago

the real black pill the feckless Dems need to swallow is that there *never were* good republicans

vote4rights.bsky.social•7 days ago

Attention @schiff.senate.gov & @padilla.senate.gov - either lead effectively & productively or get the heck out of the way! 😖

jscottcory.bsky.social•7 days ago

Senate collegiality and comity died when McConnell declared Obama would be a one-term President under his Senate leadership. The Democrats have been rolled every day since then.

billthepony.bsky.social•7 days ago

Made this same point to a centrist lib this weekend "what are they supposed to do?! They have no leverage!"

THEN CREATE IT.

I remember when McConnell rolled over in the face of an actual landslide...

73k.us•7 days ago

If he's a world historic monster and they have shared genial lunches with him, and many of them vote the way we know they do, at what point do we acknowledge that many of them themselves are world historic monsters?

capitalistfool.bsky.social•6 days ago

Beginning to wonder how many good Democrats there are

markshatraw.bsky.social•7 days ago

Redirect the Havana Syndrome funding to Senate Brain

ryanb123.bsky.social•7 days ago

Any non-MAGA person with MAGA family or friends will tell you MAGA is dangerous. Regardless of whether maga brought out the worst in people or they were always secretly terrible, no longer matters. This is a dangerous cult, and elected dems need to come to terms with this fact. Everyone else did.

antifa-operator.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh wow. That's shocking. 100% there was no dissent because they've worked with him in the past so they "know him". Politicians are really stupid.

teedogg.bsky.social•7 days ago

Now they do. I guess they missed his signature on the soul-selling agreement he signed with Evil. Wonder what it feels like once you sign on. Do you get lessons on hypocrisy or was that a prerequisite? I can't believe shamelessness wasn't required either. That baby face hid it well.

aristofontes.bsky.social•7 days ago

Willingness to accept a job, appointment, judgeship, etc. from Trump is itself disqualifying. They'll never get this.

nedzeppelin.bsky.social•7 days ago

I don’t get it - even if there were “good republicans” Rubio wouldn’t have been on that list

cannon4nh.bsky.social•6 days ago

My two dem senators are dead to me. Dead. To. Me.

sanmei.bsky.social•6 days ago

You'd think they'd learn after this has been the case for the past couple of decades, but...

rincewind.run•7 days ago

who they are behind closed doors does not matter and is in fact actively deceptive

if none of them will stand up to fascism publicly - and not only will they not stand up, they are enthusiastically endorsing it - what they say behind closed doors should be treated with the utmost suspicion

crosis101.bsky.social•7 days ago

People need to stop pretending this is a government for the people and start treating this as a criminal syndicate.

incompetusrex.bsky.social•7 days ago

Politicians are what they do. What they really feel in their heart of hearts doesn’t mean shit if they’re not willing to anything about it.

seentoomuch.bsky.social•7 days ago

Last time I called Schumer's office I said point blank "what they tell you in the gym is them playing you"

mcmillen.dev•7 days ago

we need to ban congress members from attending the same gyms

regensbloggerin.bsky.social•7 days ago

That vote was chilling to lots of US citizens living abroad. The State Department oversees citizen services and is often where we first turn for contact with the government. That frictionless confirmation was horrifying. We're used to being ignored or forgotten; this felt more like being cut loose.

casemonster.bsky.social•7 days ago

Someone who acts like a good person in public and is a monster behind closed doors makes perfect sense. Someone who acts evil in public and is actually good behind closed doors makes zero sense.

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•7 days ago

sporkyreeve.bsky.social•7 days ago

There's a tendency from the media (and Democrats) going back to 2016 to treat their private frustrations with Trump as the REAL them, and the sycophantic public behavior as an act. Everyone involved needs to update their priors: the public behavior IS the real them, the private gripes are the front.

henry111.bsky.social•7 days ago

As with orcs - the only good republicans

ARE FUCKING DEAD

cyanidentity.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wenn das der Führer wüsste - if only the leader knew

Plot twist: he knew.

thealtonobserver.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is a significant issue that is often overlooked. Tons of Dems still think they are playing a competitive game of Monopoly with their work buddies when in reality republicans switched the game to Russian roulette 15 years ago and have yet to take a turn.

looly.bsky.social•7 days ago

oh this is when the rats start fleeing the DNC ship and taking matters into their own hands.

danfoti.bsky.social•7 days ago

Every single Senator needs to go.

martyvburen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Seeing how much Rubio obviously hates his job right now, maybe Dem Senators voted him in to punish him.

kentindell.bsky.social•7 days ago

Decades from now, someone will write a book called The Good Republican, about Trump’s chief architect or something.

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