Despite the staggering amount of evidence that's now piled up high enough to blot out the Sun, way too many people continue to use words like "embarrassing" and "humiliating" when describing the actions of Republican sociopaths.
But, of course, Republican sociopaths like lil' Marco, who appeared on Meet the Press today, aren't wired to feel normal human emotions. He's wired to Gish Gallop false equivalences as fast as possible right over anyone asking any questions that might trigger embarrassment in a normal human.
This is so embarrassing. Republican Marco Rubio WOULD NOT pledge to accept the election results in 2024 no matter who wins. Republicans don’t care about our democracy. They’re done with it. Trump has corrupted the entire party. pic.twitter.com/3C7MbbWEMR
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) May 19, 2024
Kristen Welker refuses to accept Marco Rubio's lies about Hillary Clinton not conceding, NBC engaging in censorship, and his own vote to certify the 2020 election, "You voted to certify the election. Nothing has been censored on this program. Hillary Clinton did concede." pic.twitter.com/QcwQN9UZoB
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 19, 2024
"We're gonna have to do something dramatic" -- Marco Rubio on Meet the Press says he supports Trump's plan to round up migrants and send them to detention camps.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2024
Kristen Welker then plays tape of Rubio saying in 2016 that he doesn't support Trump's plan to round up migrants. pic.twitter.com/g0XQNlngQL
We're now fast approaching the 20th anniversary of a little joke I first told back when I was but a mere (long-winded) commenter at the late Steve Gilliard's News Blog. You know the one:
Dick Cheney is found, naked, on the White House lawn tossing burning kittens at homeless veterans and hitting babies with a ball-peen hammer.
What are the first three words out of David Brooks’ mouth?
“But the Democrats!”
Decades ago, once they figured out that this was a nearly-foolproof hack of the mainstream media, every Republican politician became this joke in human form.
This was Lil' Marco back 2016 (h/t Crooks & Liars:)
Rubio Reflexively Blames 'Both Sides' For Violence At Trump Rallies
And this was my write-up of Lil' Marco's appearance on The Daily Show
in 2012. I believe he still holds the land-speed record for most Both
Siderisms in the shortest time for this performance.
Centrism Triumphant
In case you missed Jon Stewart's award-verging "interview" with Marco Rubio, here is your rush transcript of Senator Rubio's answer to Jon Stewart every single time Mr. Stewart tried very respectfully to point out that Senator Rubio was, um, lying, and that the relentless, pathological obstructiveness of the Republican Party was unmatched by anything Democrats have done in modern history.
"Both sides..."
"Well, you know, both sides..."
"Both Democrats and Republicans..."
"That's just politics..."
"The Democrats left us no choice..."
"Both sides..."
"Democrats and Republicans..."
"Both sides..."
"Both Democrats and Republicans..."
And so forth, to the point of being comical.
Like every other Republican culture war criminal, Senator Rubio has been conditioned within an inch of his life to always answer any question about the unique perfidy and hypocrisy of his political Party with the Big Lie of Centrism and to refuse to stop repeating the Big Lie of Centrism until the questions stop regardless of circumstances....
Nothing has changed, except for the worse, which is why continuing to give these lying scum any platform anywhere is folly. As I said, Republicans not wired to feel normal human emotions. They respond only to a voracious hunger for power which normal humans will never understand, and the kind of abject terror which no teevee program host has the power to muster.
Which is why, in their political heliotropism (look it up) they will always turn away from decency and democracy and towards Trump. Because only Trump and his mob genuinely terrify them, and conversely, they believe that only Trump and his mob can grant them the kind of power that they crave above everything else.
So when filthy like Rubio or Lindsey Graham or J.D. Vance are invited on the Sunday Shows, don't imagine for a second that they're gonna get got.
Q: Viktor Orbán seized control of universities and put them in foundations that were run by his allies. He rewrote the Constitution, he neutered the courts, and he has tried to control the media. Is that what you're advocating for in the US?
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 19, 2024
Trump VP contender Vance: I think… pic.twitter.com/1DOl2z69yL
The old Tim Russert The "Gotcha Question" schtick of playing some politician's old tapes from when they held a different position ack to them, then cocking an eyebrow and saying, "Well, senator...?" is as dead as Dillinger because the Republicans no longer feel any shame at what they are doing.
There is no hope that some last tiny shred of conscience or dignity they have retained will, at the 11th hour, suddenly upwell in their chests. Then, like Senator Paine in last reel of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, out will pour confessions of complicity and criminality and guilt.
Sorry, kids. Never gonna happen. Because their appearance on the Sunday Shows has nothing to do with you or me or the facts or the past. Instead, those appearances are all about showing the meathead base that they're willing to march into the belly of the Liberal Media Beast and tell those lying Biden puppets to fuck off.
And even more importantly, those appearances are all about making a public showing to Donald Trump that they have had a genuine Road To Dumb-Ass-Kiss conversion. That they renounce everything they ever pretended to believe in and now wholeheartedly accept Donald Trump as their personal lord and savior, and will do literally anything to secure for him the seat of power which was stolen (or "stollen") from him by the Cheating Democrats and their Fake Media.
4 comments:
Can we get the Guardian reporters to interview these GOPers?
To ask questions like.
If you can go back in time, would you abort Hitler? Would you about Biden?
If you won;t commit to accepting a lgal fair election if Trump loses. Will you accept the election if you win?
And should we accept Trump winning or You Rubio winning ?
If some sort of Biden dep state is conspiring to prosecute Trump for crimes committed. But you say it is a rigged prosecution. Is Sen. Menendez who is indicted and on trial . Is his prosecution a rigged game to get him too?
Since you agree with Trump that he is immune from prosecutions because he WAS president. Why is it your House republican colleagues are investigating Biden?
Did they weaponize Hose investigative powers to have investigative hearings on Hunter Biden? Was that a political rigged prosecution?
Is it the same rigged conspiratorial prosecution they did to Charles Manson and should Charlie be let go free?
Fact is, most everyone in prison say they are innocent. They were framed. Should they be released?
Sen. Rubio, you supported and voted for Ukraine military aid. If Trump is elected how long before you become pro Russia and want to pass military aid for Russia against Ukraine?
Have you any further evidence that
Trump has small hands and that means something else is small? Did you really think your GOP voters found that highly important to before they voted between you and Trump in the primary?
I know we are dealing here with the ever present past but who is going to think about the future?
How about Driftglass. General Strike. When the time comes it's all we will have.
Since the press will not seek me out and ask me if I will accept election results.
Let me volunteer it,
First If Rubio wins reelection it is rigged and I will not accept nor recognize him as a Senator.
There is no way in Tarnation that Trump could win without the deep dark anal state of cheating and election manipulating by the right wing under Putin's control.
How dare they allow republicans in Florida to put their mail in ballots into a drop box!
How criminal is it to drink water in line at the polls in Gorgia standing in 98 degree temps with a humidity index being high.
Or When Trump tells his voters to not vote by mail and only vote in person. This is illegal and those votes cannot be counted.
But we can count all the GOP voters who use their dead wife's ballot to vote on after they voted with their own ballot. Because the surviving spouse just knows how his dead wife would have voted.
What would Rubio choose to do when a local election comes out in a absolute tie and the local governments' long term manner in resolving such a tie is to have a coin flip.
Do republicans get to use a coin of their choosing having two sided heads so they can call it while flipping in the air?
This morning, the execrable David Leonhardt titled the goddamn New York Times morning newsletter "The New Centrism" and he did not appear to be joking. Something something neoliberalism morphing into neopopulism amid piles and piles of utter horseshit. (It turns out that "horseshit" is one word after all)
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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