#Marco Rubio

[mysharona1987]

Marco Rubio condemning the violent deaths of children while calling for the violent deaths of even more children.

#Palestine #israel #gaza #news #marco rubio #human rights #war crimes #democrats #republicans #politics

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#Trump trial #trump hush money trial #Trump election interference trial #David pecker #Michael Cohen #Steve Bannon #national enquirer #stormy daniels #bill and Hillary Clinton #Marco Rubio #Ted Cruz #Ben Carson #never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #maga morons

[not-safe-for-democracy]

THEY ALL KNEW

via stef.unplugged.almost and scheuermann1 / tiktok

THEY ALL KNEW

#trump #donald trump #republicans #lindsey graham #republican hypocrisy #rand paul #glenn beck #mike pompeo #marco rubio #ted cruz #john bolton #bill barr #mark meadows

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

#palestine #israel #free palestine #palestine will be free #gaza #israeli occupation #genocide #free gaza #us politics #ted cruz #mitch mcconnell #marco rubio #aipac #tom cotton #marsha blackburn #pete ricketts #katie britt #bill hagerty #tim scott #ted budd #rick scott #icc #benjamin netanyahu

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo News:

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so.  In a terse, one-page letter obtained exclusively by Zeteo, and signed by 12 GOP senators, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz of Texas, Khan is informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account for their actions in Gaza will be interpreted “not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”

12 Republican Senators-- including Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Katie Britt-- have all signed onto a letter in support of Israel's war crimes threatening the ICC if they issue arrest warrants to Israel Apartheid State officials.

#Israel Apartheid State #War Crimes #Israel #Israel/Hamas War #ICC #Benjamin Netanyahu #International Criminal Court #Marco Rubio #Ted Cruz #Marsha Blackburn #Mitch McConnell #Katie Britt #Tom Cotton #Tedd Budd #Pete Ricketts #Bill Hagerty #Kevin Cramer #Rick Scott #Tim Scott

[nodynasty4us]

Staffers at 538 discuss who Trump might pick as his running mate:

Sen. Tim Scott (R - South Carolina)

Gov. Kristi Noem (R - South Dakota)

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - New York)

Former rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D - Hawaii)

Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R - California)

Sen. J. D. Vance (R - Ohio)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R - Florida)

Former television news anchor Kari Lake (R - Arizona)

Skim the chat to learn their reasons.

#tim scott #kristi noem #elise stefanik #tulsi gabbard #kebin mccarthy #jd vance #marco rubio #kari lake #vice president #2024

[news4dzhozhar]

So a handful of Republicans literally sent a letter to the ICC Prosecutor threatening the entire office AND their families if they (International Criminal Court) move forward with issuing arrest warrants for any member of Israel's government for war crimes. You know, cuz the US is the mafia now 🙄🤦 Considering the US and Israel are 2 countries who aren't members of the ICC (if that doesn't speak volumes) the warrants wouldn't be enforceable regardless but yah, let's make the US look like an even bigger pile of shit than they already do. If you dare try to prosecute war crimes...you've been warned (literally how the letter is worded). So embarrassed of this country that I'm at a loss for words. Just think for a minute what any sane, rational person would take from such a letter.

#lessons never learned #US on the wrong side of history again #US is complicit in genocide and war crimes #and happily so #GOP thugs and morons #icc #icc war crimes tribunal #international criminal court #who the hell do these clowns think they are? #wanna be gangsters #tom cotton #ted cruz #marco rubio #mitch mcconnell #tim scott #katie britt #rick scott #marsha blackburn #war crimes #war criminals #israeli war crimes #netanyahu is a war criminal #iof war crimes #i feel like im in the twilight zone #war crimes supporter #israel lobby #aipac money at work #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide

[liberalsarecool]

Lil Marco is a soulless toad. Send him home, FL.

#marco rubio #soulless

[eretzyisrael]

#marco rubio #joe biden #biden bill #hamas #gaza #ceasefire #Youtube

[mysharona1987]

#Trump #news #florida #classified documents #democrats #republicans #politics #lol #marco rubio #crime

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

🤮🖕

#republican assholes #trump sycophants #maga morons #little Marco #Marco Rubles #Marco Rubio #election denier #the big lie #Republican elevtion violence

[vyorei]

Meetings being held in DC between the Egyptian FM and US senators

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Sameh Shoukry #Egypt #Ted Cruz #lindsey graham #Marco Rubio #Chris Coons

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

#Marco Rubio #Rick Scott #Florida #Vote Blue #Democrat #Democrats

[tomorrowusa]

MAGA extremists often rant about the so-called "deep state" which apparently means national defense, security, public safety, and regulatory bodies. The wannabe dictators prefer not to have checks and balances which can prevent them from going full-blown fascist. It's easier to get away with shit when you don't have to worry about accountability.

It's useful to see how such an attitude has already played out in another country.

Israel has been weakened by its own rightwingers who have eroded its security agencies with politics. Prime Minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the Israeli version of the so-called "Smart Trump" who many Republicans dream about. His rightwing governments have been running Israel for most of this century.

Bibi himself is still technically on trial on corruption charges. This year he and his coalition partners have attempted to strip the Israeli Supreme Court of many of its powers. And those partners, even more extremist than he is, had been dismissing security warnings from defense and intelligence agencies; of course those warnings abruptly turned out to be credible.

What’s happening in Israel now is a disturbing example of what can happen when elected officials use partisan and personal motivations to warp national security. For years, Republicans in Congress have attempted to sabotage what they call the “Deep State.” This includes placing holds on political nominees and castigating diplomats, officers and analysts employed in the government as captives to “Big Woke.” They might see it as political theater, necessary to boosting profiles and fundraising. But as this week shows, there can be a price. Reporting suggests that the hardline elements of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition were openly hostile to warnings from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and security agency Shin Bet that settler violence would increase the security threat to Israel. One Likud member of parliament complained: “The ideology of the left has reached the top echelons of the Shin Bet. The deep state has infiltrated the leadership of the Shin Bet and the IDF.” Another Netanyahu coalition member stated, “We see there is confusion as to who is an enemy.”

Attacking Israel's armed forces (the IDF) and its version of the FBI (Shin Bet) for political reasons has not done a lot for public safety there. It's like being mean to your watch dog for barking a warning.

Hamas’ surprise attack has highlighted further national security dysfunction within the Netanyahu government. There are confirmed reports that Egyptian intelligence directly warned Netanyahu that “something fierce will happen from Gaza.” Allegedly, Netanyahu was indifferent to the warning, explaining that the IDF was “swamped” with terrorism threats in the West Bank. Israeli critics have stated that his coalition repeatedly ignored earlier warnings from Arab allies regarding rising levels of Palestinian frustration. Haaretz editorialized this week that, “a prime minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him from a possible conviction and jail time.”

Netanyahu's ignoring of the warnings about a potential Hamas attack reminds me of the infamous 06 August 2001 intelligence brief George W. Bush ignored with the title Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.

Here’s my question: Is Israel a harbinger for the United States? Are we getting a sneak preview of what will happen if Republicans succeed in their effort to exercise more control over the national security bureaucracy?

I think we all know the answer to that. Americans should worry.

The problem comes when elected officials and political appointees decide that in order to achieve their desired ends, they need to reduce entire national security institutions to rubble. And let’s be very clear: In 2023, all of the U.S. partisans engaging in such behavior are Republicans. Former president and likely future presidential nominee Donald Trump has set the tone here. The number of instances that the former president sabotaged U.S. national security while in office and afterwards is too long to recount in detail. There’s the blabbing of secrets to Russian officials in the Oval Office, the tweeting of classified photos, the refusal to return national security secrets once he left office, and the fact that he shared extremely sensitive information about the capabilities of U.S. nuclear submarines to Mar-a-Lago members, who in turn blabbed it to everyone. His behavior was so egregious that multiple former cabinet members — most recently John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff — have gone on the record to discuss the danger he poses. Back in June his attorney general, William Barr, warned on Face the Nation, “He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests.”

It's not just Trump but also his sycophants and the wannabe Trumps.

Trump is the loudest but hardly the only Republican willing to sabotage the U.S. national security architecture. Other GOP presidential contenders have expressed an equally strident desire. Vivek Ramaswamy promised to “use executive authority to shut down the deep state.” His plans included firing 75 percent of the federal workforce and dismantling the FBI and Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been even more violent in his rhetoric, promising one New Hampshire crowd that “all these deep state people … we’re going to start slitting throats on day one.”

Elon Musk fired 75% (or more) of Twitter staff the way that Vivek Ramaswamy wants to fire 75% of the federal government. We know how that's going.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is currently using arcane Senate rules to damage the US armed forces.

The most obvious manifestation of this is Sen. Tommy Tuberville holding more than three hundred military promotions hostage unless the Pentagon stops funding travel for service women to receive abortions. This includes two selections for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as Middle East theater commanders for naval and ground forces. [ ... ] Marco Rubio has placed holds on multiple Biden nominees, as has Ted Cruz. The result is that, at present, the United States does not have confirmed ambassadors in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and Kuwait. There has been no confirmed USAID official for the Middle East for close to three years, nor has there been a confirmed State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism for nearly two years.

Raise your hand if you think it's kinda important to have a State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism. 🙋🏽

Republicans would like to do to US national security what the far right Netanyahu government has done to Israel's.

#national security #“deep state” #far right #israel #idf #shin bet #hamas #terror attack from gaza #republicans #donald trump #vivek ramaswamy #tommy tuberville #marco rubio #ron desantis #ted cruz #republicans are weak on defense #ישראל #שֵׁירוּת הַבִּיטָּחוֹן הַכְּלָלִי #צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל #בנימין נתניהו #daniel w. drezner

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Edwards at Raw Story:

An animated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised his voice and refused to say he would accept the outcome of the 2024 election on Sunday. During an interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked the senator if he would accept a loss by former President Donald Trump in this year's presidential election. "Will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens, Senator?" Welker asked. "No matter what happens? No," Rubio insisted. "No matter who wins?" Welker pressed.

"Well, why don't you, I think you're asking the wrong person," Rubio shot back. "The Democrats are the ones that have opposed every Republican victory since 2000." "It's Hillary Clinton who said it," he continued. Welker pointed out that "no Democrat has refused to concede," including Clinton. [...] "Democracy is held together by people's confidence in the election and their willingness to abide by its results," Welker recalled. "So by your own definition, are Donald Trump's claims undermining Americans' confidence in democracy, given that he has not conceded the last election?" Rubio, a possible vice presidential nominee, refused to condemn Trump.

Senator and potential Vice President candidate Marco Rubio (R) went on NBC’s Meet The Press yesterday, in which he shouted over the show’s host Kristen Welker and espoused election denialist sentiments by refusing to accept a potential Donald Trump loss in the election.

From the 05.19.2024 edition of NBC's Meet The Press:

#Kristen Welker #Marco Rubio #2024 Presidential Election #Election Denialism #2024 Elections #NBC #NBC News #Meet The Press #Election Fraud #2024 Veepstakes

[valentineish]

I hope they both lose a fight with a gator.

#ron desantis #marco rubio #florida #united states #midterms #floridians. y'all got screwed over SO hard and i am so sorry. #my friends down there have been furious about what the gop had done to maintain their chokehold