Every single Democratic senator foolishly and naively voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Trump’s Secretary of State. Every single one. Some of us said at the time it was a mistake and they would come to regret it. It only took a few weeks (!)
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I 100% disagree. It was not a mistake you were never going to get anyone better than Rubio. This is Trump we're talking about you were never going to get someone good for that role. If they didn't vote him in pretty soon Trump would just replace him with Andrew Tate or some other asshole.
Yea! That operation is due to the stanch - we should pick our fights. We can’t oppose everything.
The problem with that is that nothing repugs have done has been for the good of the people. Absolutely nothing.
Marco is a man that is being swallowed up by his own lack of integrity and principles. It’s obvious as you watch him he doesn’t believe or agree with anything he is being asked to do. I’m surprised they, the administration, let him be televised or photographed at this point!
Sorry Mehdi but it was the only appointment Krasnov has made that seemed reasonable. I do not fault the Dems for this vote. Fault Rubio and the non-maga GOP for having zero spine.
It made me sick to see what took place Friday in he Oval Office! That being said peace negotiations are always held behind close doors and not openly in front of an audience and news media! The Pres. of Ukraine knows that! However, the VP lite the match that started it all. As for Rubio I don’t
The US senate has this perverse habit of supporting a fellow senator in any other position that he or she seeks. Like as if they’re members of a very exclusive club! Idiotic, but true! That’s how this spineless joker lightweight got the job. He was nominated only to be a nothing, and nothing was!
They should have known better than to throw away 'sense' in the name of 'bi-partisan look at us could we be more respectful to a former colleague'... but no. Over and over, 'but no'... time for new leadership in Congress.
They foolishly thought they could pick their battles. By all backing him, they thought it would earn them enough political capital to prevent the really terrible picks. R's decided there was no bar low enough.
The old club voted for one of their own. Regardless of how he has comported himself over the years. They would have voted for Tuberville if trump selected him. It’s a club and we ain’t in it.
If I were a Senator, I wouldn’t have voted for any of Trump’s nominees. But if there was one that I had to vote for, it would have been Rubio. At the time he was still considered to be somewhat normal. I can see why it was hard for other Senators to vote against their “friend” and co-worker.
If they had rejected him (he still would've won but I digress) DJT wouldve produced a worthy states-person such as _______" as a decent alternative. Got a name? I'm totally drawing a blank.
Possibly what they did was be able to say 'America, were not obstructing, we object to incompetents'
Any Democratic senator who voted for ANY of Trump's nominees should be summarily dismissed when the time comes. IF we get the opportunity to choose for ourselves again who our leaders will be. ANY ground conceded is too much.
Democrat Senators are MIA in the war against Fed employees, LGBTQ+ people, Gaza, and every other issue we normal Americans are freaking out about. Why are we surprised that they're loyal to each other more than the country?
The leaders, Jeffries, Schumer are caricatures than politicians who would want to take the opportunities these buffoons in the WH are doling out day after day.. a strong opposition keeps the ruling party in check.. there are no checks or a gate as far as I see here…
They shouldn't be voting for a single god damn thing while they are in the minority and Trump is in office. I'm a lifelong Dem, but JFC guys! When they gonna fucking learn???????
I think the big difference between Rubio and the other nominees, is that Rubio literally doesn’t matter.
He could be replaced by a soggy napkin and it would t change anything from him now.
There are only a small handful of Dem's that know that this is a no-hold-barred fight.
The rest think that keeping normalities, is what they should do, and doing that will excellerate the demise of the USA
The Dem senators were thinking Rubio is a senator, he's one of us, he will hold the line. They didn't know that Rubio would bend knee, kiss the ring and ultimately sell his soul and dignity at a discounted price.
If they thought he'd toe the line, they were being dangerously naive. I think they did it out of misguided institutional loyalty, mistaking the US Senate's interests for those of the American people.
I disagree. they 100% knew Rubio would bend the knee. the problem is Rubio was qualified to do the job, and you can't spend all your political Capital tilting at every single windmill.
It is baffling for Rubio to be supporting all of this warming up to Putin coming from a family of Cuban exiles. So interesting to see how being a hardliner against communism in Miami has changed so quickly.
Rubio's allegiance to Trump has been quickly shown. How long will it be before we start seeing the devastation of the other inept cabinet appointments that the GOP blindly supported.
It's clear to see that we are significantly less safe now than last fall. SMH
I was pleased to see Senator Murphy call it a mistake on CNN this morning. He didn't hesitate and owned that it was a mistake. I tried CNN off after that though because I saw Scott Jennings on my screen, in my home.
I like their how Jeffrey's is now pushing for the DNC to sit back and do nothing and wait for the Republicans to embarrass themselves as if that's a good strategy. Why would they start this policy after voting to confirm his whole cabinet. What a bunch of cowards
then trump would nominate Tommy Tuberville and republicans would line up and vote for him. I wonder where Joe Biden, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton are, they all hiding under their beds?
Schumer is clutching his pearls and has a case of the vapors.
Disgusted with democrats
She doesn't owe y'all anything. At some point you are going to need to turn your focus back to the people who put us in this mess. And that's not the politicians but the voters.
And why the fuck shouldn't she have? She lost and the left eviscerated her for it.
She owes us nothing after the treatment she got in the wake of the election. The electorate saw a fascist and a black woman and they chose the fascist.
Dragging us out of this mess is not on her, she already tried.
A good portion voted for her and donated. The Dems are used to anointing people and calling them “ leaders”. Now is the time for true leaders to emerge. I get her being butt hurt and don’t blame her but not using her name recognition to speak out for people is a choice.
Do what Sanders is doing now. Speaking out about the danger, taking it on the road, showing she was right, giving people a focus point to rally around. It’s what people are hungry for and in ways she’s uniquely positioned to do it.
What are you even talking about? More people didn't vote at all. The race was very close. Kamala would have won if there hadn't been vote suppression. Casting false aspersions helps no one.
They have been. Did we forget all of the crying about college kids protesting the Gaza genocide months before the "adults" in the room started to actually acknowledge the issue?
This sentiment I disagree with. They effectively removed him from the Senate. And now his seat will be up for a special election. Marco is a coward but he isn't maga and this will play on him the longer this goes. He's their weakness.
They all could have voted no and he still would have been confirmed. The optics are bad but the result is the same. I guess it was hard to vote against a member of their exclusive, collegial Senate club. 🤷🏻♂️
Please ignore Medhi . Rubio was the best option available. He has turned out to be an absolute quisling but there is still the possibility that he is keeping senators informed.
I don’t know! Maybe he was the best choice? He’s completely absent and nobody cares what he says. Steven Miller would have been worse? Or better because he’s so obviously evil? I just don’t know!!!
Its called fuckin resisting. Do you think any Republican senator would vote for a Dem presiden nominee? Not a fuckin chance. They resist and obstruct at every chance...also the Dems called Trump Hitler 25/7 so I guess Hitlers bad, but his sec. of state is okay? Retarded ass logic
Little Marco was never going to be anything other than a powerless placeholder. As Tillerson found out in Trump's 1st term Trump changes course constantly based on his gut. Approving Hegseth, Gabbard, Patel, etc., was much more destructive.
My take on it is that Rubio was told to STFU and sit there by Trump and Vance. Little Marco has railed for years and years and years against socialism, communism and dictatorship. It doesn’t sound like something he’d willingly just approve. He found out that he is just Trump’s puppet. Hence the face
The Dems played hand-wringing good cop for the cameras while our healthcare and education was ripped away from us and sold back to us for max profit and kickbacks.
Sometimes you give them enough rope to hang themselves. (Metaphorically). But, enough of this Rope-a-Dope shit from the Democratic members of Congress. This is 5-Alarm fire.
Except even if they did vote no it would have ended up the same way, so who gives a fuck anymore?
I don't believe Rubio would have thought he doesn't have a mandate even if they all voted no.
The entire Dem Senate caucus are fucking idiots. He told us all that he was only going to put sycophants who would follow his orders without question this time out.
The hopeless naivete to vote for any of them is damning.
I’m going to write a strongly worded a message to Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer that I’m sure will get their undivided attention and perhaps take them off their book tour or trying to figure out how to use their smart phone
The look behind the curtain we’ve gotten last week and culminating in Fridays bun fight will galvanize a change in alignment that while painful might just create a new hegemony, IF the free world (ex-USA) can transition away from fossil fuels and tax/sanction the polluters. Use the seismic shift.
My brother your hammering Biden over Gaza is a big part of why we're in this mess. And you're actually STILL blaming Dems when republicans have all the majorities 🤦🏽♀️. We'll have never have a Dem potus again with "friends" like you
Mehdi said he was voting for Kamala and why.But he also reported the truth about the genocide. That can't turn an election. The people who didn't vote for her but did vote for Biden previously specifically said the genocide was their issue. They rather Trump win then stop that. Blame them not Mehdi!
Rarely a take as ignorant of your own party's responsibility as this. If Dems want to commit atrocities, they can try to gain power without popular support. Simple as.
Every leftist who trashes Biden over *insert dumbass shit here* absolutely pushed others to vote Trump. Even if you and mehdi did not do you actually think you're blameless here? And you're still clinging to the same BS that got us into this mess. Unreal
Actually you defending the status quo is making things worse. Hakeem Jeffries is currently on a book tour during an active COUP and you’re like “dEms aRe heLpless 🥹” — pushing democrats to be better is what it needed right now in order to save democracy. The sooner you realize that the better :)
Ah yes, the "DO SOMETHING" people have lots to say as always. Here's a small chart for you. Personally, I would have preferred president Harris. Instead idiots gave Trump and Republicans majorities in every chamber. Not much to do really. We sold this country out for NOTHING.
68% of democrat voters think their party is not doing enough. You belong to the 32% that exhibit cult-like behavior where you try and silence any critique of the democrat party. It’s weird as fuck 🥴
I agree with you. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer need majorities, otherwise they have to pick their battles. And yes guys like Mehdi and journalists who raked democrats over the coals, played a role in the party’s demise.
The party created its own demise Ling before Liberal pundits started taking Hotshots at a weak candidate. Even after Biden dropped out, Harris could've pivoted with her fake-ass "joy" message. Instead, she backed mass murder.
He is selling his book. During a coup. No amount of mental gymnastics makes that make sense. He should be messaging to the American people like Jasmine Crockett, AOC, and Bernie. If you find yourself getting really upset when people critique the democrat party— you’re in a cult. Hope this helps.
Who wants a dem POTUS who is promoting/funding genocide?? And if the POTUS can’t take criticism from their own party, they are no better than the sycophants around Trump. It’s important to hold our leadership accountable. Problem is all the holier than thou “dems” who just sat this one out.
Dems are a bad opposition no matter how you mince it, had Kamala even SLIGHTLY disagreed with Biden on literally anything Gaza related or not she'd have won. If all you offer people who dislike the status quo is more status quo no one's gonna like you.
That's not even an argument. The point is that you avoid criticism by not supporting genocide. Blame Kamala. Every journalist's job is to report and inform the public. Kamala wouldn't have done anything different, she would just be less crass about it. I for one don't care about decorum.
It's a question, and I see you refuse to answer. Please continue to blame Kamala for Americans being shortsighted FUCKS. A conflict in another country where the president calls Trump his BFF and you idiots thought it would be a good idea to give Netanyahu his wish. JFC.
And once again, for the slow, it doesn't matter how YOU personally voted. Every time you trashed Biden or Harris over this you motivated others to hate them too. At least own that. Not sure Mehdi ever did.
What is your problem exactly? Kamala lost to a historically unpopular candidate. She ran a terrible campaign and her loss is ber own damn fault. Blame the media all you like but it was her campaign and her mistakes. Votes are not given because you say stupid phrases like "politics of joy".
we don't know for sure if Kamala wouldn't have done anything differently, but she did a piss-poor job of distinguishing herself from Biden on the campaign trail.
Agreed, we'll never know now, but she was unable to answer that simple question on The View. Q: What will be different? A: verbal stew with no meaning. And then somehow blue MAGA blames voters, the media, Putin, the left... anyone but her.
yeah, no. Democrats lost because there is a subset of progressives and the far left that has never met a marginalized community that they're not willing to sell out in order to virtue signal.
Hasan 100% contributed to a Trump victory. people like Ayman are currently ensuring a 2026 loss as well.
And instead of acknowledging people were struggling, you had the Will Stancils of the world screaming the economy was great and people were just being stupid.
Yeah I'm sure there were a lot of swing voters in the Michigsm heartland who were this close to voting for Kamala until they heard what was going down on Will Stancil's Twitter page. That was what done it.
I mean, Dems did lose some voters because they sent one of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends there to chastise Muslim and Arab American voters, saying 10s of thousands of Palestinians had justified deaths because the Bible said so.
Democrats would’ve lost that campaign to ANY Republican.
The reason Trump is President is because Biden didn’t do the primary job the American people elected him to do: hold Trump accountable and restore institutions.
Mehdi offered constructive criticism while advising people to vote for Kamala for harm reduction & to prevent the chaos we're in now. Quite a few big-name contrarian leftists gave him grief for it, called him a sheepdog, etc
If the Democrat senators and house members think there isn't anything they can do because of their minority then why are they not campaigning and rallying support (Similar to Bernie's coast to coast campaign) instead of showing up for votes? Especially if it's to vote in favor
Where is Paul Manafort, by the way? He got out of prison thanks to Trump and went back to lobbying, as I recall. Hard to believe he doesn't have a finger in this Ukraine mess.
How about the maga traitors in Congress who voted for every single outrageous unqualified lunatic mango out forward? Huh??? We could still be mired in the confirmation process if our Congress had balls.
Treasonous, faux christian, self dealing, perverted, lightweights who have no spine.
Those Senators weren't naive and they knew damn well who they were voting for per instructions from donors' political operators and influencers who are connected. So many of our current politicians are on the pad as they receive stock tips campaigns donations. Corruption is the rule.
Yeah — sent that message to my two senators, asking them to apologize to their constituents for their lapse in judgment. My two have been in Congress for a combined total of 55+ years. Surely they are experienced enough to know Rubio was NEVER going to stand against his MAGA Messiah.
Medhi Hassan still virtue signalling against the party of Democrats while silent on the sabotours of democracy. Justice Democrats are marxist DSA DINO's as is old bolshevik bernie.
We all knew she was Putin's asset, hired to dirty up Joe Biden's image as he ran against Trump's fascist campaign.
8 members of congress VOTED NO to President Biden's Kleptocapture bill, seizing illgotten property of RU Oligarchs for Ukraine reconstruction, as Putin invaded Ukraine
The squad on the far left found common ground with the squad of trump's fascist right.
Who were they signaling to by a NO VOTE?
Called Kaine and Warner on their holly! Disgraceful especially when both berated President Biden for pardoning when he said he wouldn’t. That was before tRump won!!! Of course the🍊💩 would have sent him to Gitmo!!
They should not vote for anything the Republicans want. Furthermore, every Democratic Legislator should boycott Trump’s propaganda speech on Tuesday with a statement saying they do not need to listen to lies. THIS IS NOT NORMAL DEMS AND YOU SHOULD ACT LIKE IT!!!!!
Does it matter? He was going to be confirmed if every D voted against him. He was part of their "club". What matters is that there are no R's who are standing up to the FOTUS!! THAT's what's important!!
The problem is the donor class, consultant class Democrats are calling the shots. The Progressives are the ones that have ownership of the testicles in that party.
The Dems can't just wait for the Republicans to implode, they have separate themselves from them. And attack, attack, attack.
He made some encouraging statements re Ukraine in 2022, so maybe they thought he could serve as a counterweight to the worst of Trump & MAGA's deference to Putin. They forgot that he's a total weenie who would (did) fold under the slightest pressure from his boss w/the little hands...short memories
Dems in the House and Senate must fight ever action in the legislative branch. They must be brawlers. Pick the fights, frame the MAGA GOP as freedom-hating, anti-Constitutionalists.
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The GOPs behaviour cannot go unchecked. Strong leaders need to push and kick back at every misuse of power and every facistic act.
Anything less would be a detrimental to democracy, and costly to the world as a whole.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
The problem with that is that nothing repugs have done has been for the good of the people. Absolutely nothing.
his utter servility to a american despot who is beholden to even worse despots
Seems like something's fucked in the system.
#CollapsingEmpire
Where is leadership ? @schumer.senate.gov ?
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Probably other nominees are completely 💩 & disqualified. So Dems gave Rubio a chance & he totally failed!
Possibly what they did was be able to say 'America, were not obstructing, we object to incompetents'
The leaders, Jeffries, Schumer are caricatures than politicians who would want to take the opportunities these buffoons in the WH are doling out day after day.. a strong opposition keeps the ruling party in check.. there are no checks or a gate as far as I see here…
He could be replaced by a soggy napkin and it would t change anything from him now.
The politics we need, is the politics that destroys the top down system and rebuilds it from the bottom up.
Perception matters. Resistance is embolden when they see leaders act boldly. This wasn’t that.
The rest think that keeping normalities, is what they should do, and doing that will excellerate the demise of the USA
I said he was the best of a bad lot...
but
just as bad as the lot of them
Again.
It's clear to see that we are significantly less safe now than last fall. SMH
This is a very exclusive club and they will defer to each other EVERY FUCKING TIME
Who is the missing 100th senator?
Schumer is clutching his pearls and has a case of the vapors.
Disgusted with democrats
She owes us nothing after the treatment she got in the wake of the election. The electorate saw a fascist and a black woman and they chose the fascist.
Dragging us out of this mess is not on her, she already tried.
Fucking show us that you've still got a pulse for something besides golfing and self-congratulation!!
And they had almost zero solidarity from the aforementioned "adults."
Instead of worrying about what youths are doing, maybe convince more adults to care.
A criminal administration.
Why are Dems so naive?
The people are watching. Bold action from leadership emboldens the people to resist. The rueful Trump voters need to see an alternative
This was the easiest thing that they could do and they failed
Count on secretary Margie Green not doing that.
Know your enemy.
The gop didn’t do this alone.
The Dems played hand-wringing good cop for the cameras while our healthcare and education was ripped away from us and sold back to us for max profit and kickbacks.
But he’s got experience, what he needs is allies. Right now everyone else is caught in the headlights & afraid to say or do anything
I don't believe Rubio would have thought he doesn't have a mandate even if they all voted no.
The entire Dem Senate caucus are fucking idiots. He told us all that he was only going to put sycophants who would follow his orders without question this time out.
The hopeless naivete to vote for any of them is damning.
That'll do it for sure
in the trap and thought it would be ok. I’m pissed at myself.
The dems are there own worst enemy at times. For he is more spineless. For you could see how uncomfortable he was and then, chose obedience.
Why aren't you pissed at Bernie for a vanity tour to OMAHA? Yet you're upset with Hakeem? Interesting.
They had a chance to clear the slate and got a poll boost when Kamala got the nomination, but then she said she wouldn’t do anything different.
Hasan 100% contributed to a Trump victory. people like Ayman are currently ensuring a 2026 loss as well.
And instead of acknowledging people were struggling, you had the Will Stancils of the world screaming the economy was great and people were just being stupid.
The reason Trump is President is because Biden didn’t do the primary job the American people elected him to do: hold Trump accountable and restore institutions.
If the Democrat senators and house members think there isn't anything they can do because of their minority then why are they not campaigning and rallying support (Similar to Bernie's coast to coast campaign) instead of showing up for votes? Especially if it's to vote in favor
Seen their last vote from THIS peep…😡
The people are watching. Bold action from leadership emboldens the people to resist. The rueful Trump voters need to see an alternative
This was the easiest thing that they could do and they failed
but somehow his X posts are full of determination, treading the naXi line
Treasonous, faux christian, self dealing, perverted, lightweights who have no spine.
We all knew she was Putin's asset, hired to dirty up Joe Biden's image as he ran against Trump's fascist campaign.
The squad on the far left found common ground with the squad of trump's fascist right.
Who were they signaling to by a NO VOTE?
Marco Rubio is just another soulless empty shell of a man
Man up and come up with workable solutions instead.
Also “man up”? Because you have to be a man to come up with workable ideas?
Fuck off with that shit.
Geeesh, americans, when will you get it?
Have they even started an impeachment proceeding??
The people are watching. Bold action from leadership emboldens the people to resist. The rueful Trump voters need to see an alternative
This was the easiest thing that they could do and they failed
The Dems can't just wait for the Republicans to implode, they have separate themselves from them. And attack, attack, attack.