the one upside of all this international chaos is knowing marco rubio gave up a senate seat for the job he always wanted and he’s now watching it reduced to utter irrelevancy
Trump calling him out and everyone laughing was just a prelude to the humiliation he’ll be going through later. I’m not even sure under the current climate that any foreign country would want a Sec of State visit.
"Mr. Trump agreed with Mr. Collins, saying they ought to retain the smart ones and get rid of the bad ones." Then they all wept at the simple wisdom of the Great Orange Leader.
apparently Trump forgot to tell the cabinet secretaries that musk was going to choose who gets fired in their departments, probably either because he has dementia or he assumed all the secretaries knew they were just like the Sopranos mobsters that got do-nothing jobs on construction sites.
Haberman paints Shitler as the mediator who brokered at least a temporary peace amongst his team, but happily skips over Trump’s endless history of poor hires and resulting fires, and his ultimate culpability for hiring a bunch of badgers who he enjoys watching fight it out. It’s a puff piece.
fck little marco & the little bar it perches on to parrot mango mussolini’s lies.
“the one upside of all this international chaos is knowing marco rubio gave up a senate seat for the job he always wanted and he’s now watching it reduced to utter irrelevancy”
Embassy’s and consulates are where you can go for critical resources should something happen to an American overseas. Such as identity theft, lost passport, and many other issues. This makes Americans less safe.
The world needs to do what shitler wants. They need to build an economic & military mote around us. Nothing comes in. Nothing goes out! Install a government they want. A taste of your own medicine.
We have 400 mil guns, 1 tril rounds, & millions combat veterans. This thing will sort itself out.
Peachy, as someone living abroad that means I'll likely be naturalizing rather than fighting. I will NOT set foot in the US as long as Trump is in power and since I have no way of knowing how long that will be...
This will have effects that would surprise people. I seem to have known about Covid long before it was announced in the rest of the world. It was actually published but it seems nobody saw it. It was picked up on by US embassy staff in Wuhan long before being mentioned widely in North America. Due
To lack of faith in Chinese reporting, it appears periodic checks on hospitals is something embassy staff did. When they noticed ambulances queuing to get into the hospital they reported it back to the states.
Republicans elected a demented narcissistic psychopath. Those who chose to protest vote, or decided to sit on their asses at home and not vote at all, enabled them.
Everything. Everything will go wrong with that. They won't even pay for these people to fly home. Stay away, folks! Don't come back until that weird old man is removed from the oval office!
How to survive a dictatorship
1 freeze your credit
2 see your doctor/vaccines
3 renew your passport
4 ask doctor for three months supply of meds
5 update your sexual orientation in medical be ambiguous
6 shop local
7 stay informed
8 stay hydrated
9 help others
10 download your SSA statements
I was thinking about you tonight and how you don’t take any shit from people. I like that a lot. I’m fuckall tired of humans. I wish I could stop the world and get off. But I have children (grown) and a partner who loves me, so I will get up tomorrow and do another day. But fuck. I’m worn down.
This White House full of abusive men keeps following the cult maneuver of isolating members from their friends and families and demanding money, misogyny, and sacrifice in the name of the prosperity gospel leader. It’s the NXIVM Administration.
it's a "tell me you don't understand the purpose of small consulates without saying you don't understand the purpose of small consulates" moment for Secretary Lickspittle Rubio and his masters.
I would welcome a total withdrawal of US influence especially in the Global South. But we know these closures are only done to protect authoritarian and dictatorships which MAGA wants to align with.
In the future, the little + sign next to "English" on the lower right opens another window, creating a thread. You can post multiple times in one thread. I use it when I have more to say than 300 characters can convey.
I'll ask my grandson to see if he can enlarge it for me.
Another thing you can do is cut the pic into smaller pieces by screenshotting it, then paste up to 3 of them into a post. I do that when it's too long and involved for text C&P.
Somebody once said that if you're an American in a foreign country in dire need of help, the US consulate with the Stars and Stripes flying over it is the most beautiful sight in the world.
The fact that he’s being ALLOWED to do what he’s doing is beyond comprehension. The republicans not saying a word is certainly evidence of pre planning with project 2025. It’s sick, seems criminal.
How can the NYT write this as though it is reasonable and not completely illegal? “One member of the team, Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer who publicly goes by “Big Balls,” is in the State Department helping to direct the budget cuts at the agency.”
I know! It's all TOTALLY ILLEGAL. Also, no one is talking about the consulting firms laying off people due to Doge cancelling all their contracts! It's huge!
Can’t “lay off” locals. Gotta contractually compensate them handsomely. Gotta repair, refurbish properties and leave them in better condition than they were originally. Just stupid.
Our tax rates are designed to pay for all these departments' services.
Closing them down steals directly from us the things we have already paid for.
IRS Form 2210... look it up. Claim a waiver. Stop paying.
If we lose those impressive and central buildings, we will never get the real estate back. In most cases US diplomatic buildings were bought many years ago when most other countries were poorer.
Why not travel:
- be home for Rapture
- unprotected against common diseases
- Gaza riviera not open yet
- no passport (with gender)
- stay in Greatest Country; make that even greater
- afraid to fly in Musk’s airspace
- meet with constituents
- cannot pay from dwindling SS
- only travel to Russia
Are just not liked and welcome anymore by their friends from only last year(s) as they do not fix their local mess and cause big world insecurity and economic disaster
Among other things, this will hobble the United States's effort in assisting Americans stranded overseas for a variety of reasons, societal unrest, jailings and other legal issues, etc.
Rubio probably doesn't want to be bothered with overseas consulates because they may take time and energy away from his activities to serve Putin and time and energy away from his devotion to Putin.
PSYCHOPATHS Putin’s/Trump’s/Eloon’s MAGAs are a redux of PSYCHOPATH Hitler’s Nazis = psychopaths (1 in 25 persons in the general population) & their psychotic human pets.
Damned (for eternity) Republicans have opened the gates of hell that our ancestors helped to close in 1945.
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At the Zelensky ambush last week, he looked like he wanted to bolt from the room.
At SOTU, when Trump gave him a shout-out, he had the pained smile of a man told to smile as his balls are being squeezed, which they are 😏
“Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our…
…big ol’ honkin’ Crosses on our foreheads.”
One of your followers sent me a link that worked. Yay!
I'm all set, thanks!
Like nearly every other GOPer, Rubio went from critic to asskisser in no time flat.
“the one upside of all this international chaos is knowing marco rubio gave up a senate seat for the job he always wanted and he’s now watching it reduced to utter irrelevancy”
It’s all over his fucking face when he’s not performing.
Everybody else need to sober up and fight for the country and the constitution
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/usaid-workers-uncertainty-safety/index.html
Except for the US citizens abroad needing consular services, but I guess we won't know about them either so it's all good.
a 19-year-old engineer who publicly goes by “Big Balls,”
is in the State Department helping to direct the budget cuts at the agency.
We have 400 mil guns, 1 tril rounds, & millions combat veterans. This thing will sort itself out.
Not.
I say so with conviction
And our lack of morality
Will be our perdition
#resist #barsnotwars
What else should we expect?
Canada could just ask for the land back (kidding we'll take the place) and develop it into a new Cuban embassy.
No rules anymore, right?
As long as they can pay the Grifter in Chief $5,000,000 for the hold card.
This day #March2025 #AmericanHistory
#resist #persist #exist #RiseUp #bluecrew #punchnazis #Musk #Trump #Thiel #Bongino
1 freeze your credit
2 see your doctor/vaccines
3 renew your passport
4 ask doctor for three months supply of meds
5 update your sexual orientation in medical be ambiguous
6 shop local
7 stay informed
8 stay hydrated
9 help others
10 download your SSA statements
Goddamn Republicans right past the gates of hell and into the heat of an exploding star.
In the future, the little + sign next to "English" on the lower right opens another window, creating a thread. You can post multiple times in one thread. I use it when I have more to say than 300 characters can convey.
I'll ask my grandson to see if he can enlarge it for me.
Again, don't worry.
Intense. Scary. Unfortunately, not surprising.
Have they understood the assignment?
"And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint."
This is so dystopian and draconian
The maga regime hate most Americans along with their billionaire buddies zuck, bozos, elmo, thiel, and andreeson
They’re dismembering our country and maga Congress loves it!
🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇧🇾 🇮🇳 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇧🇾🇮🇳
America, a distant sadness 😔
I wouldn’t hire a 19 year old to house sit for me.
FFS. Marco Rubio is trash.
Lets see if Trumps next move is closing all the overseas military bases too?
Closing them down steals directly from us the things we have already paid for.
IRS Form 2210... look it up. Claim a waiver. Stop paying.
(asking for a Planet)
Oh we’re not russia…. Never!
Mindless
- be home for Rapture
- unprotected against common diseases
- Gaza riviera not open yet
- no passport (with gender)
- stay in Greatest Country; make that even greater
- afraid to fly in Musk’s airspace
- meet with constituents
- cannot pay from dwindling SS
- only travel to Russia
Damned (for eternity) Republicans have opened the gates of hell that our ancestors helped to close in 1945.