We have to give people room grow and learn. Sure, Beattie wrote some intemperate things in the past. But I'm sure he's accumulated a lot of life experience and done a lot of maturing since . . . . . . October of 2024. - ThreadSky

radleybalko.bsky.social • 26 days ago

We have to give people room grow and learn. Sure, Beattie wrote some intemperate things in the past.

But I'm sure he's accumulated a lot of life experience and done a lot of maturing since . . .

. . . October of 2024.

Reposted from Elizabeth Spiers

Rubio's state dept appointee is a white supremacist and a misogynist. I remember not too long ago when a Republican who said this would be disqualified from high profile federal jobs forever.

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mikewinter.bsky.social•26 days ago

I am astounded by these guys. I like to think of myself as competent and I couldn't imagine saying something like this that made me sound so weak and pathetic.

knoxhughes.bsky.social•26 days ago

I just wonder what lies Rubio told himself to justify hiring a guy to be his subordinate that thinks his own boss is inferior, doesn’t deserve the job and is a DEI hire…?

youtackything.bsky.social•26 days ago

I assure you, Marco Rubio thinks of himself as white.

knoxhughes.bsky.social•26 days ago

I don’t disagree, but it’s just such a strange dissonance - you know?

I mean, gotta figure Beattie thinks HE is really in charge, not Rubio.

youtackything.bsky.social•26 days ago

A lot of white supremacists are willing to see certain Latinos as white, providing the Latinos in question are perceived as entirely "Spanish" with minimal or no black/indigenous heritage.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•26 days ago

Rubio is just hiring this guy on the orders of Bannon or Miller or somebody else because he wants to keep his job. He’s a coward

suzangreen.bsky.social•26 days ago

Seems to me this push-back again diversity and equity is to soothe the feelings and egos of mediocre white men who can't get jobs or positions of power unless they are *handed* to them or there is no competition. They know they don't measure up and so they want the playing field to include only them

obliqueirony.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ridiculous edgelord "intellectual" hero turgid with self-regard.

Someone should post the full Garrison cartoon from which Beattie draws his Twitter avatar (it features Jonah Goldberg).

jonsternfeld.bsky.social•26 days ago

Even uttering the phrase "competent white men" should be disqualifying from ANY job, much less a massively powerful one.

philk10.bsky.social•26 days ago

And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing

tepid.meme•26 days ago

Thank you for keeping this meme alive in these difficult times 🫡

thesuzabides.bsky.social•26 days ago

I’d bet my life he has a micro penis.

rgh1205.bsky.social•26 days ago

On what basis would anyone claim that competent white men have to be in charge when the US is the most prosperous and powerful country in the world and it is doing much better than petty tyrannies where (in)competent white men are in charge?

pat-snyder.bsky.social•26 days ago

I certainly aged a lot since last October…

lizardky.bsky.social•26 days ago

Does he consider Trump and Musk to be competent???

preciousroy.bsky.social•26 days ago

Remember, even if the election abnormalities are discarded, plenty of people in the United States decided that incompetent white men do it better than a competent woman of color.

bigbrotherwatching.bsky.social•26 days ago

Well Musk is a South African immigrant so....

cinderellaenflambe.bsky.social•26 days ago

Oh F! I can't spend the rest of my life now "coddling" the feelings of "competent white men."
Can I ever get a break?

headasploding.bsky.social•26 days ago

Feels like this is being imposed on Rubio to demonstrate to him that he is powerless, knowing that Rubio has no spine to push back against this hire. I don't think Rubio wants Beattie, but he cares more about keeping his high profile position in this shameful administration than anything else.

citizenstx.bsky.social•26 days ago

Senate Dems voted unanimously to confirm Rubio.

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