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[IcyPeas]

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[gratuitous]

1. Can't help wondering

Would Sen. Rubio welcome a group of "tourists" to his Senate office similarly attired and armed?

[PSPS]

2. Probably. They weren't chanting "kill rubio" or "hang rubio" or "find rubio."

[elleng]

3. MAKE rubio watch R. Engle's docu, OVER and OVER again.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. He, and most of Cult45, have fully embraced fascism, that much is clear (nt)

[peppertree]

5. How about we call the 1959 Cuban Revolution a 'pleasure cruise arrival' then.

I bet he'd like that.



They look like tourists to me.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. This is satire, right?

It's terrifying that I have to ask.

[elleng]

7. NOT satire,

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/richard-engel-investigates-the-january-6-capitol-insurrection-109928005644

[ShazzieB]

13. I watched that video, and I don't get it.

Was that video supposed to show us that the tweet in the OP is not satirical? If so, I must have blinked and missed something.

What I got from it was what I already knew---what we all already knew: that Republican senators want to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug and pretend it never happened. That doesn't mean that tweet can't be satire. I thought it was myself, and I still do. I was buying it till I got to the bit about Yelp and TripAdvisor. That part was just a little too over the top to be real, imo.

I'm not saying Rubio doesn't want the insurrection to go away, like most of his Republican colleagues. I'm just having a hard time believing that those exact words actually came out of his mouth.

Edited to add: After posting this, I got the bright idea of actually going and looking at the tweet thread. And yes, from what I saw, this is satire. It's a sign of the times that it's often hard to tell what's real and what isn't; but this isn't.

[torius]

8. Are they now Yelping reviews of prison?

"Poor management, noise issues, bed is like a rock. If I could give it negative stars I would."

[flying_wahini]

9. What a sniveling ass Rubio is.

Weak and not too bright, either.

[Grokenstein]

10. "Say, we haven't heard from Marco Rubio in a while,"

...said no sane person, ever.

[orleans]

11. okay--from now on any congressional republican who says it was just "tourists" needs to be locked up

in a fucking looney bin

[struggle4progress]

12. "Sign up today for our next GOP tour of Rubio's neighborhood! Set up a gallows

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I really had no idea any of that was illegal!

I won't have time to be incarcerated because of my vacation plans!

and Jail food isn't plated nicely enough for me to eat"

[Guilded Lilly]

14. What a full blown idiot. Standards for running for office MUST be raised.