There Is No Defense--Only Complicity

[DonViejo]

Republican senators are shrinking before the eyes of the whole country.

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

David Frum
Staff writer at The Atlantic

o understand what was at issue in the impeachment proceedings today, it helps to look at a video released yesterday by Senator Marco Rubio.

Few Republican officials have more reason to hate former President Donald Trump than the defeated rival Trump so memorably nicknamed “Liddle Marco.” Trump brutally bullied Rubio throughout the presidential primary campaign in 2015 and 2016. Over the five years since, Trump imposed one humiliation after another upon Rubio. Now it’s rumored that Ivanka Trump intends to challenge Rubio for his Senate seat in 2022.

But Rubio knows that Republican senators who defy Trump have a way of ending up as ex-senators. And so he abases himself again and again to defend Trump. He appeared on Fox News Sunday on January 24 to denounce this second impeachment trial as “stupid.” And in his February 9 video, a senator who often speaks out against authoritarian corruption in China, Cuba, and Venezuela positioned himself as its apologist here at home—dismissing accountability for the January 6 attacks as a “waste of our time.”

But here’s the important thing, the big reveal: As he delivered his message, Rubio looked absolutely miserable. Watch it yourself [below] and see what I mean. Rubio looked equally miserable on Fox News Sunday.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/there-is-no-defenseonly-complicity/617996/

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[handmade34]

1. How many people are NOT going

to be able to be vaccinated because of this impeachment hearing? NONE!

if we don't get this impeachment right... there may not be a Country to travel across or good schools to go to...

Rubio spouts nonsense

[csziggy]

2. How many people were not protected because of Trump?

Mr. Rubio, you never criticized Trump over his failures to recommend and enforce common sense measures against Covid-19. You never criticized him for not gearing up to produce more PPE, or that his federal government was seizing deliveries of PPE to states and communities. You never criticized him for not setting up a nationwide plan to distribute and administer vaccinations.

In fact, Mr. Rubio, although you started out telling the truth about Trump, once he flipped you to one of his toadies, you never criticized him again - not once.

As one of the voters you claim to represent, all I have left to say to you is STFU and go away.