Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump “I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance. zeteo.com/p/conservati... - ThreadSky

jamiegangel.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.

https://zeteo.com/p/conservatives-republicans-standing-up-trump

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callajester.bsky.social•3 days ago

ZETEO for the Win

grammacappy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Except this article only named one. GEEZ

grammacappy.bsky.social•3 days ago

THIS is what I scroll on here to read about and NEVER find. Thank you.

markehlers.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is nothing conservative about Trump and MAGA types. They are more interested in destroying rather than conserving the institutions and norms of government and civil society. https://ehlersoneverything.blogspot.com/2025/03/from-mccarthy-to-trump-rights-75-year.html?m=1

cupcake1312.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/cupcake1312.bsky.social/post/3lkyew7stkk2b

megelder.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is actually a bit depressing. Even nonviolent protest doesn’t have a high rate of success😢

b10cza.bsky.social•3 days ago

These people have courage...sad only a few! Hoping more soon

thehatter.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is a conservative resisting Orange Julius that is still in office?

Oh….

I didn’t think so.

codycafe.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Listen, I’m a conservative, which means I don’t give a fuck about you or you’re starving kids, but this guy’s way too much.”

clevergurl.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is it exactly. They finally care but it isn’t about “the [insert bigoted pejorative here]” suffering, the suffering finally caught up to them or someone they do care about. These people aren’t getting a cookie from me.

mattelectrician.bsky.social•3 days ago

oh yes...such heroes

clevergurl.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly.

illoe.bsky.social•3 days ago

We cannot defeat this shit without at least some of the Gadsen-flag suckers realizing they just voted for the boot.

mbarrows.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Alarming”? Fuck you all to the former Rubio adviser helping to lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance. I fucking hate reports of Repubs who save all their Trump negative views for off the record/privately/unnamed sources. The time is NOW-STAND UP OR FUCK OFF

secretoriginz.bsky.social•3 days ago

I was surprised throughout Trump's first term that Never Trumpers never formed a new political party. It really needed to happen.

lecohonah1.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/lecohonah1.bsky.social/post/3lkzkrnbdrk2o

instantdogma.bsky.social•3 days ago

I ain't working.

steve36893.bsky.social•3 days ago

Meet all five of them besides the few who are on CNN.

pingl.bsky.social•3 days ago

Any conservative who stands for the constitutional republic should stand up to Trump and his authoritarian agenda.
Many of them already stood up to Trump but is there any conservative that are not MAGA still in the GOP or are they all became cult members.
So far they are all MAGA fans or cowards.

chorongomon.bsky.social•2 days ago

A decade later, and they're still "not wanting to be alarmist"... 🤦🏽 To late dudes you all brought the crocodile into the living room!!!!

psssst.bsky.social•3 days ago

But does he now admit that it was always wrong to support such a warped character as Rubio, just as it is now wrong to support or vote for anyone morally flawed enough to remain in the Republican party?

lesizmor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Go sit down and suck a pacifier with the rest of em Rubio. We don't really need your piss warm baby formula.

autonomousreason.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Quite” is doing a lot of work here

birdielb.bsky.social•3 days ago

Boy, sounds really full-throated…NOT! Alarming? This is an invasion from within. It’s alarming and illegal, dear former Rubio advisor!!! Do something, buddy!

armyinfsgtvet.bsky.social•3 days ago

Again, when Erin Burnett grinned and played this tape three times, "he looks like a little boy....," it showed CNN didn't understand the complexities of what was coming. With the help of the Jennings lead disinformation, we have the Hitler they downplayed. We could have had a larger resistance.

cupcake1312.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/cupcake1312.bsky.social/post/3lkyew7stkk2b

sharonlindsey.bsky.social•3 days ago

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•3 days ago

THE CROWDED THEATER IS ACTUALLY *ON FIRE*. PLEASE, PULL THE ALARM. BE AN ALARMIST.

bondygotthejuice.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Hmm, yes. It seems the floor here is made of floor."

okay7.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe it’s naive of me but I would have thought conservative republicans would have come out to oppose Trump before now.

cjbush88.bsky.social•3 days ago

There have been a lot of us opposing him for 15 years now.

okay7.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you.

sharonlindsey.bsky.social•3 days ago

The conservatives mentioned in the article have been vocal for a number of months/years and not many others have not had the courage to join them!

turbulantjuice.bsky.social•3 days ago

Find the brave “conservative”.

johndeguzman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolute horseshit. This was the coverage under the first term, too, that there were good GOP… it’s lazy journalism. It only helps the fascists.

azdctx82.bsky.social•3 days ago

Both of them?

Joking aside, hats off to @greggnunziata.bsky.social for doing the right thing to support rule of law.

lovejoy8.bsky.social•3 days ago

MAGA Republicans have already taken over the party!
Rubio's true colors are coming out and he has been brainwashed too!
America will be destroyed if Trump gets his way!

richlevine6.bsky.social•3 days ago

Geez, when alarm is called for, be alarmist, and be proud of it! And currently there’s an infinite-alarm fire throughout the country.

starbender.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s the problem. No one wants to be “an alarmist”.

Well, guess what? Alarmists are exactly what we need right now.

zebharadon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good thing alarm clocks are not this concerned about it or nobody would ever wake up

jacks-brokenheart.bsky.social•3 days ago

F-ing knew it.

independent56.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump is not a Republican. He’s an opportunist with a platform solely premised on self interest. Republicans refusing to endorse this insanity are a comforting harbor in this unprecedented storm. Thank you, we will not forget.

roman-s-ca.bsky.social•3 days ago

If there is any conservative resistance to Trump and the MAGAts it is too small and too quiet.

potch-hctop47.bsky.social•3 days ago

Be a damned alarmist!

julstrangepork.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good. I am glad we have help. Our tent is big.

mcsnerd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Glad the Conservatives are *finally* realizing the problem. They're jerks for making it - but we need all the people we can get to kick him out of office. Impeachment is what it's gonna take.

larryplatt.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trumpers are mentally ill.

satyarta.bsky.social•3 days ago

We wish him well. In Russia he would be tossed out a tall building or experience an introduction to Novichoc. Here, the fascist machinery will attack with like minded ferocity.

mspeggyhill.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ugh 😑

baly56.bsky.social•2 days ago

debbmatt.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seriously are there really any?? They’re not talking loud enough!!!

lenday.bsky.social•3 days ago

Your Constitution has large fires burning all around it.........

akolodinsky.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess that means (Conservatives plural) there are two of them .

reesielj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, you do want to be an alarmist. The sooner, the better.

tq100.bsky.social•3 days ago

They aren't loud or visible enough.

wilken.bsky.social•3 days ago

bronnenberg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Count them on one hand.

michcarv.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s my hope this behavior picks up steam. Conservatives need to get past the fear of reprisal & help their constituents maintain their livelihoods. Doing the right thing isn’t supposed to be this hard.

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•3 days ago

Congress means you have 2 or 6 years of job security at a time (more than most people have!), but no more. Stop acting like it’s free food for life. Get the fuck over being afraid of what everybody else deals with all the time. Snowflake.

beaconmarlena.bsky.social•3 days ago

How many angels are on the head of a pin?

bananarammer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ya but they knew who Trump was before…. So they can cut the shit…. It’s just getting closer to republicans now….

nonni57.bsky.social•3 days ago

They need to get LOUD & stop hiding.

knight21.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe it's time for us to start recalling elected officials actively working to dismantle our rights and government.

sjcrn.bsky.social•3 days ago

“I don’t want to be Alarmist” is not the Resistance I was Hoping for—

arreff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Have these conservatives stopped to think about just what is it about conservatism that makes it the go to ideology for authoritarians & bigots? More than opposing MAGA, they need to take a good look at where & why conservatism appeals.

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•3 days ago

A big problem for them is the constant dichotomy of what they say they want vs what they do in office. States’ rts? In office they consolidate power. Freedom from Govt? Sure if you’re a corp, otherwise they’re up your vagina & in your BR. The Constitution? See Jan 6. Fiscally? Blow up the debt.

skoumal.bsky.social•3 days ago

Stalin, Mao, Lenin and Kim were all leftists that were authoritarians.

arreff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, they were leftists of a sort, one does not find leftists defending their authoritarianism with the same vigor of the right. Leftists have much to contend with, but being a stalking horse for fascism is not among the problems. That’s something conservatives should, but never do, address.

skoumal.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fascism is extreme right. Conservatives are by definition closer to them. Communism is far left and liberals are by definition closer to them. When you go to far extremes you have to use force to get the populace to go along.

arreff.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don’t think we disagree too much on this. I’ve noticed that communist regimes go after their own with as much enthusiasm as fascists. Fascists will go after their own, eventually, but after they’ve run out of real leftists. Night of the Long Knives was a tactical exception.

skoumal.bsky.social•3 days ago

MAGA has been going after conservatives for nine years. Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney, Judge Luttig and Mona Charen are all rock-ribbed conservatives who didn’t sell out their principles and MAGA went after them from the get-go.

ravenna321.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ya think!?!

bellboy905.bsky.social•3 days ago

In other news, zero @cnn.com employees are standing up to confront Scott Jennings with his own words and ask how he lives with himself.

baly56.bsky.social•2 days ago

That ship sailed away forever until it needs to return for popularity.

senojbed.bsky.social•2 days ago

You think? HELLO????

gopclownshow.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

m2cents.bsky.social•3 days ago

Too little too late. The speed of the dictatorship far outweighs the speed and impact of the resistance.

exechootive.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rubio was small but vocal once.

Sorry for that, but the rise of the bullshitocracy has obliterated my filter

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rubio has been a spineless suck up his entire career. He’s an embarrassment.

exechootive.bsky.social•3 days ago

Embarrassment that is much larger than life—in his case especially. Sorry again, no filter anymore. Fuck ‘im

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•3 days ago

No problem. Everybody is very sweary and pissed off these days. But that’s life in the barrel.

biometlab.bsky.social•3 days ago

When will someone say to trump and maga what was said to McCarthy and it will matter

'Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness..Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"

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