Steve Schmidt Tells Rubio to F Himself

[CatWoman]

On Wednesday night, Schmidt reacted on his Twitter feed to Florida's Sen. Marco Rubio's faux indignance at Joe Biden's campaign manager calling Republican lawmakers, "a bunch of fuckers." MaxNewsToday has assembled this 9-tweet thread and reprinted it as one easy-to-read op-ed for our ongoing segment, Schmidt Storm. It has been edited for grammar and clarity.

I’m speaking to you in a low and steady voice right now, just the way anybody would talk to an insane person.

Are you okay? Are you looking past the Senate and thinking of trying to beat out Zac Efron for the Bundy role in the next biopic? Are you trying to showcase sociopathy for the nation?

Your hypocrisy is evidence of a delusional personality that sees virtue where everyone else sees cowardice and craven dishonesty. You are an American Vichy. You abandoned every principle you once claimed fidelity toward to stand as an apologist for the most malignant and incompetent president the nation has ever had.

His lethal lying, and your complicit silence, have killed hundreds of thousands of people. He has poisoned the country with his idiocy, racial animus, conspiracy theories and lies. He has assaulted the rule of law, just as he has assaulted the Western Alliance that protects democracy.

During the last weeks, he has strangled faith and belief in American democracy with his lies, conspiracies, insanity and your help.

Tens of millions of Americans, to the delight of our enemies, have bought into your cancerous accusations assaulting the legitimacy of our elections process, which is the crown jewel of the American Constitutional Republic, the oldest in the world. Each morning, you have the nerve to tweet out Bible verses, while serving as a handmaid to Trump’s’ indecency, malevolence, bullying and cruelty.

You are contemptible. Please take your crocodile tears somewhere else. One can’t help but wonder if the Lord looks down at your epic fraudulence and says, “Wow, unbelievable. I really overdid it with this one.”

After four years of madness, corruption, death, lying and thousands of desecrations against our institutions, Lil Marco has finally roared, or perhaps squeaked, in righteous fury. His object, Jen O’Malley Dillon, for referring to, accurately, GOP Senators as Fuckers in Glamour magazine. As if.

Marco is a victim, it seems. He feels violated and debased, apparently. It’s like his 2020 was ruined, all of a sudden. Let’s reject Marco’s bullshit, crocodile tears and faux outrage. Sometimes, in times like these, it helps to reach for a quote from the pages of history.

The words of a President of the Senate, once uttered on the floor of that august chamber, seem appropriate for the moment, and especially for Lil Marco: “Go fuck yourself.”

https://www.maxnewstoday.com/post/steve-schmidt-tells-rubio-to-f-himself

[DEbluedude]

1. The man has a way with words.

Perfect!

[BadgerMom]

13. This Democratic man has way with words!

Glad he’s on our side!

[ailsagirl]

33. *****

[mdelaguna]

75. Seriously. Shakespearean-esque IMO.

Shakespeare’s characters’ insult passages are epic. Nothing like an articulate and witty assault. Way more effective.

[volstork]

62. Indeed.

Well played.

[crickets]

84. "You are an American Vichy" got an involuntary gasp and "wow!" from me.

The good kind, where you do a fist pump and yell, "it's about time!" What an epic, well-deserved takedown.

[uponit7771]

88. +1, exactly

[Crunchy Frog]

3. He doesn't suffer from the regular Democrats conditioning to mince words and reflexively apologize

whenever the Rs exhibit their hypocritical, phony outrage. I hope he continues speaking out.

[shanti]

17. Yes, and I love it n/t

[ailsagirl]

35. Schmidt will not be silenced-- not his nature

[SunSeeker]

41. Yes, and I hope we lose that reflex. nt

[Escurumbele]

52. That is a great point, and maybe (hopefully) it will rub off on many Democrats

and they too will begin to call republican bullshit.

Lets hope that happens...I know AOC already does it, and very well too. Didn't she address Lil Rubio as well?

[scarletwoman]

4. Huzzah! Excellent! Thank you for posting this!

[LizBeth]

5. Edited, corrected.

Last edited Thu Dec 17, 2020, 07:32 PM - Edit history (1)

[Lisa0825]

19. "President of the Senate" is correct.

"Under the Constitution, the vice president serves as the president of the Senate and presides over the Senate's daily proceedings. In the absence of the vice president, the Senate's president pro tempore (and others designated by him) presides. As one of the Senate's constitutional officers, only the Vice President has the authority to cast a tie-breaking vote."

https://www.senate.gov/reference/Index/Vice_President.htm#:~:text=LIVE%20FLOOR%20PROCEEDINGS-,President%20of%20the%20Senate%3A%20Vice%20President%20of%20the%20United%20States,others%20designated%20by%20him)%20presides.

[LizBeth]

21. Thanks Lisa, I have been schooled. I am good with that. I haven't heard that so appreciate info.

Or I might of and so old just have forgotten.

[Lisa0825]

56. I recall having to look it up myself several years ago when I read the title.

It sounds counter-intuitive for sure.

[dpibel]

22. That would be wrong

The Vice President of the US is the President of the Senate.

So it is correct to refer to Dick Cheney as the erstwhile President of the Senate.

[LizBeth]

23. I got it on the other reply, thanks.,

[dweller]

6. Sweet

Rubio Cheney’d by Schmidt
more of this pls

✌🏻

[ehrnst]

20. Indeed. (nt)

[Karadeniz]

7. Who was the prez of the senate who made that memorable comment?

[Laelth]

11. Dick Cheney. n/t

-Laelth

[Digger]

40. Yup it was Dick Cheney

And let us not forget he shot another R with a shotgun. Thanks Dick!
Now go fuck yourself!

[thucythucy]

14. I believe it was Dick Cheney.

[catbyte]

26. Dick Cheney to Pat Leahy in 2004

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/dick-cheney-could-not-be-prouder-of-that-time-he-told-pat-leahy-to-go-fuck-himself-on-the-senate-floor

[Karadeniz]

53. I read the link... He's always been a jerk!

[Deuxcents]

8. Sweeet

Very happy to have him join our cause.

[irisblue]

9. "You are an American Vichy." Well I like that

[Blue Owl]

10. As a nation, we need to tell Rubio to go fuck himself

Be done with that weasely scumbag

[musclecar6]

12. Steve Schmidt

Gets right to the point. Excellent !

[dhill926]

15. damn...I need a cigarette after reading that...

and I don't even smoke...

[Mike Nelson]

16. Well...

... that was the best put-down since Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". Cheers to Steve and... you deserve this, Marco.

[My Pet Orangutan]

24. "Like a Rolling Stone"? Right artist. Wrong Song.

"You have no faith to lose, and you know it"

[Mike Nelson]

34. Even better...

... especially that line.

[ehrnst]

18. Good on him. We need those who know the enemy (and not running for office) to lead the charge.

[Edwcraig]

25. You lost them at biopic. Think third grade Steve

[GulfCoast66]

27. He is going through what I did when I finally left the dark side...

The zeal of a convert. I’m now a Social Democrat and feel the need to make good on all the years I supported the republicans.

That zeal has not lessened.

[UpInArms]

31. So glad you found your way

[JudyM]

68. Zeal is wonderful, let's hope Georgia Dems feel it full force.

[onetexan]

74. Glad you joined the Resistance, esp'ly coming from the Gulf Coast.

[niyad]

28. That made my evening.

[The Jungle 1]

29. Um wow

Please may I have another sir?

[mountain grammy]

30. I love it..

[VA_Jill]

32. So glad

Steve is on our side now.

Mosquito may need hospitalization tonight. Third degree burns from AOC and now Steve Schmidt. Will he survive?

[DemoTex]

36. "I'm speaking to you in a low and steady voice right now .."

Damn, I'm glad Schmidt is on our side!

[Evolve Dammit]

37. I was apalled when Cheney said that to Lehey. How far we have regressed since then. Thanks Drumpf.

[sandensea]

38. ...in Alice Wainwright Park

[Joinfortmill]

39. Love this guy

[Stuart G]

42. Thanks for posting...total truth...

[Habibi]

43. I want to collect all of Schmidt's tweets and quotes from other platforms

and make myself a study guide. I want more Dems to speak out the way he does, starting with me.

[malaise]

44. That was Cheney to Pat Leahy in 2004 that he cited there

Excellent! Fuck off lil Marco!

[keithbvadu2]

45. Little Marco should stick with his area of expertise; Trump's genitals.

[Oscarthegreat]

46. Fucking great

I'm so glad Steve Schmidt is on our side. I forgive him his republican past. Most people deserve a second chance, although no one associated with the Trump crypto Nazi regime. Democrats fight republican evil with plastic knives while our enemies deploy heavy artillery and AK-47s. If we want to survive, win and save our nation from becoming a fascist theocracy, we need to fight like Steve Schmidt, with all guns blazing.

[MustLoveBeagles]

69. Welcome to DU

I like your username. I have an elderly beagle named Oscar.


I agree with your entire post. I've liked Steve for a while now and am glad he made the switch.

[blueinredohio]

47. Just WOW!!

[Hamlette]

48. nobody does it better.

[samsingh]

49. Steve Schmidt is fantastic! Tells it the way it is!! We can learn from me!

I'm glad he's on our side now.

[zentrum]

50. Reminds me of Olbermann.

[flamin lib]

51. Listen and learn Democrats! nt

[Seaflorida]

54. Love this guy!

Beautiful, couldn't have said it any better

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

55. K&R

[DFW]

57. There is no one so intensely engaged as the recent convert

I read that once, and it always seems to ring true.

I hope Steve Schmidt‘s intensity doesn‘t wane for a long time.

[madinmaryland]

58. Little Marco has opened the floodgates for us to blast out the FUCK word!

Fuck you, little Marco!

[msfiddlestix]

59. Brilliant Slap Down!

This is the kind of messaging appropriately timed. Wonder who will be challenging Rubio in the next election?

[superpatriotman]

60. He's the wordsmith we need

The Democrats were lacking a bit in the category- not ashamed to say it.

[wiggs]

61. I once emailed the Lincoln Project and asked them to produce a video of an equally

scorching, articulate, entertaining twitter rant against Trump in which various celebrities, leaders, activists each read a single tweet portion of the entire rant...and place online and on TV. Would have gotten some eyes.

This one qualifies as well...still think they should do it.

[FakeNoose]

63. Woohoo! So glad he's joined our team

Thank you Steve Schmidt!

I think that's the last we'll hear from Marco for awhile.

[Dukkha]

64. Steve Schmidt is quite the wordsmith

He knows how to stab someone hard with biting words.

[AmericanCanuck]

65. I stood up from my chair and clapped

Steve Schmidt is going to be the Democratic party's nuclear arsenal.

[BobTheSubgenius]

66. Well, he sure finished strong, didn't he?

*LOLOLOLOL* When it comes to Republicans, SS has accomplished something I wouldn't have thought possible. A negative quantity that you would think could only be a positive quantity, or zero.

He has less than zero fucks to give.

[betsuni]

67. K&R

[LittleGirl]

70. I'm so happy Schmidt is on our side! Go Steve, don't stop there! nt

[Cha]

71. Bloody Brilliant Takedown of

marco rubio by Steve Schmidt!

[Cha]

72. KICK!

[blue-wave]

73. We need more Democrats calling them out in this way

Geez, Steve has only been in our party for a few days and he's already rocking and rolling. My hat is off to this patriot.

[LaMouffette]

76. Somewhere I saw a cartoon of a man in a business suit getting chewed out royally by his boss.

In the next frame of the cartoon, the man is at home, yelling at his son for no apparent reason.

In the final frame, the son is kicking his innocent dog. (I didn't say it was a funny cartoon.)

That's how bullies operate: they only go after people whom they perceive as smaller and weaker than themselves. Jen O'Malley could wipe the floor with Marco Rubio, intellectually and probably physically, too. But since she's a woman, Rubio thinks he can berate her without getting beat up.

That's why GOP Representative Ted Yoho called Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "disgusting" and cursed at her. He thought that since she is a woman, AOC was a safe target who would not fight back (and he could not have been more wrong).

That's why Trump's favorite targets are women. He attacks women because he thinks he can get away with it. And he verbally abuses male opponents only at rallies where he's surrounded by a crowd of rabid fans (and the Secret Service) and through Twitter. And he doesn't have the nerve to fire anyone in person, only through Twitter.

All bullies are cowards.

[bucolic_frolic]

77. One for the Ages

[coeur_de_lion]

78. He's fierce. I love that he's on our side now

He’s gonna make a great Democratic spokesman.

[iscooterliberally]

79. "for our ongoing segment, Schmidt Storm."

Schmidt Storm! I love it!

[Vogon_Glory]

80. Sorry, but watching Donnie make Little Marco

bend over and assume the position doesn’t give me much respect for Marco’s manhood or leadership skills.

[tsSleepyTimeDwnSout]

81. What Americans need to unnerstand

about the Cheney/Leahy "F Bomb" incident is that the were arguing about Cheney's conflicts of interest. I fear few Americans remember Cheney's comment to the press when he "selected himself" to be vice president (look up the history), in response to a question on whether it was a bad idea to have a sitting vice president who was an in-and-out active CEO of petroleum and petroleum-related corporations. I.e. - conflict of interest. Cheney's reply: "who do you want running your energy policy, an outsider or an industry insider?" The result was the manufactured Iraq War II, launched to secure the oil supply of one of the biggest oil-producers in the world, a country that was created by American and British oil companies in the early 20th century in order to extract the oil from it (look up that history! Laurence of Arabia is a good place to start).

Here's the essential point: Cheney was voicing his philosophy, held by lots of current GOP pols, that corporations should be running our government. In the past 40 years the American left has tilted toward the idea that We the People should run the government, and that corporations should be subject to the will of The People's governance. These radical (yes) rw extremists, including Reagan and the core of the GOP ever since him, flip that on its head: they want corporations running the government, and the public being subservient to same.

I struggle with political history, it's a huge subject, but I think that closely mirror's Mussolini's definition of fascism. Can anyone verify that? If so - gee, didn't my Grandpas' (both of 'em) generation fight against that in WWII??

[live love laugh]

87. Welcome to DU!

[liberalla]

82. Damn that was good!

[MrModerate]

83. Schmidt is a master of vitriol, a spirit I consume only in small doses. n/t

[burrowowl]

85. Amen!

[DeSmet]

86. He Schmidt all over him

Way to go Steve. I'll remember you as a great American sir.