Republican Senators Suffer Sudden Onset of Hysterical Blindness

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by Tim Miller
June 9, 2020

Marco Rubio doesn’t read Twitter, he only writes on it. This would not be a terrible policy, if one were abiding by it. But Marco Rubio is not abiding by it. He is just telling a really dumb and obvious lie because he doesn’t have the hands to criticize Donald Trump.

Rubio’s latest pathetic Twitter lie was the result of his being asked an inconvenient question about the president of the United States’s most recent monstrous tweet, in which he accused 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino—who was pushed down by police and left to bleed like an unwanted rodent—of being secret Antifa.

President Trump sourced this theory from an OAN segment that was—I shit you not—reported by a man in a thick Russian accent who also—by total coincidence—works for the Russian state-owned propaganda network Sputnik.

In a vacuum one would imagine that if you’re a Republican senator who secretly loathes Trump but publicly plays nice with him, one of the easiest softballs you could ask for would be whether you condemn a preposterous, Russian-peddled conspiracy theory targeting an American citizen who was the victim of an attack that was caught on video. It’s a layup. An easy opportunity to say, “See, I call it like I see it” without any downside risk at all. A baby souljah moment. No reason at all to tell an absurd lie on this one.

Or as @MarcoRubio might put it:

James 3:14 – But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth

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https://thebulwark.com/republican-senators-suffer-sudden-onset-of-hysterical-blindness

[The Magistrate]

1. Cowardice Is An Overwhelming Urge, Ma'am

Once surrender to it, there is no end to the degradation and indignity.


"A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man only one."

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. It appears to be an important consideration for running as a Republican for national office.

That and anything in your past that would be embarrassing or worse if exposed.

Party loyalty only - People with conscience and independence need not apply.

[GopherGal]

3. Sudden?

After 4 years, I don't think it can be called sudden.

[crickets]

4. Agreed. Nothing sudden about it.

It's being going on longer than four years, too.