This fucking guy: (lil') Marco Rubio

Once a rising Republican star, Lil' Marco once again prostates himself, flushing any remaining decency down the oubliette. Your career is toast, trading for Trump will be your epitaph. Deserved

The lede:

There was a time when the “right” (aka Republican intelligentsia) viewed son of Cuban Emigres Marco Rubio as a “VSP¹”, that he brought gravitas and credibility particularly around foreign affairs and immigration. In fact, he was the lead in an aborted effort to revise the draconian immigration policies before his spoon fed Republican brethren nuked that effort, pulling the rug from under Rubio.

There was a collective sigh of relief in the Never Trump world (and surprisingly many in the Democrat sphere as well) that Rubio was a “Conventional” choice for Secretary of State. In fact, he and fellow Floridian Pam Bondi, were lauded as rational picks for their respective cabinet posts.

Of course, I always hewed to the Rick Wilson staple, ETTD², and that regardless of how normal these choices were (and the comparison to RFKjr, Ka$h Patel, Pete Hegseth, and Linda McMahon they are almost conventional), that they would be just as fucktacular as the Hegseth et. alia. are.

Then there was the pictures of Rubio in the oval office during the Zelenskyy visit, next to JD Vance looking like he wanted to slink into the cushions at the clown car was doing.

Two things this morning. First is that the incomparable Lyz Lenz has on her ‘stack a guest post of the Dingus of the week featuring the wet dishcloth that Rubio has become (Dingus of the Week: Marco Rubio - look at the slug in the URL for an additional laugh)

Dingus of the Week: Marco Rubio

There is a ton of hilarity and astute observations and commentary.

When a politician pivots away from a principled or at least a normative position toward full amorality or evil, there’s a tendency to refer to that person as “spineless,” meaning they lack the moral backbone to make a courageous choice. But that’s a flawed framework. Many of these alleged public servants are not cowards. They are pure opportunists for whom the spine/no-spine binary is insufficient to capture the thorough saturation of cravenness into their very beings.

These people are top-to-tail sickness, possessing a physical solidness that masks a complete lack of spiritual integrity. Picture if you will, a flourless chocolate cake made of tumorous prostate cells or an eclair shell kept taut by a thick filling of pus.

What I mean to say is: Marco Rubio.

As Marisa Tomei put it in My Cousin Vinnie, that is “Dead nuts, balls-accurate”

Then there is the haphazard termination of student visa’s and the deportation of international college students for their first amendment protected speech, including the open air nabbing of that Turkish student as she went out to break the Ramadan fast one evening.

But no, today I am here because of this headline in the times that is above the fold: Rubio Says U.S. to Decide in Days if End to War in Ukraine is ‘Doable’ (gifted link)

At this point in my writing, I have just read the head and the sub-head, grabbed the gift link, but I am assuming that the article will be that the Trump administration is giving up on their “We’ll end the Ukrainian war in 24 hours” fan-fiction, as they have finally realized that Putin has played Trump and all Trump’s flunkies as fools.

Let us dig in.

Second ‘graph:

“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Mr. Rubio told reporters a day after meeting with President Emmanuel Macron of France, adding that the Trump administration would decide “in a matter of days whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks.”

Yeah, we got that from the head and sub. It continues thusly:

It was not entirely clear from Mr. Rubio’s remarks whether he meant that the United States would merely abandon its effort to reach a 30-day cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine, President Trump’s immediate focus, or abandon Washington’s commitments to Ukraine altogether.

But his remarks were certain to worry Ukraine, which is heavily dependent on American military support, and appeared intended to inject urgency into European efforts to prod Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, toward painful compromise. Mr. Trump has put virtually no pressure on Russia to end the war and at one point claimed that Ukraine was responsible for the Russian invasion in 2022.

Of course, Trump seems to think that one cold February morning in 2022 that Ukraine declared war on Russia, a fiction that is so preposterous that I really got nothin.

Naturally, on his own tour of the despotic and near despotic European leaders, JD Vance took a break in hospital dry humping of chesterfields to burble out this drivel:

As Mr. Rubio warned of American impatience, Vice President JD Vance sounded a different note on a visit to Rome with his family. Speaking before a meeting with Giorgia Meloni, the right-wing prime minister who is a favorite of the Trump administration for her conservative views, he said he was “optimistic” about the negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine.

“I won’t prejudge them, but we do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a close,” he said.

Then, there’s this laugher:

Mr. Rubio said Mr. Trump “has spent 87 days at the highest level of this government repeatedly making efforts to bring this war to an end. We are now reaching a point where we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not.”

Before taking office, Mr. Trump said he would end the war within “24 hours.”

Responding to Mr. Rubio’s comments, the Kremlin signaled that it was in no hurry for a cease-fire, a consistent message from Moscow throughout Mr. Trump’s attempts to end the war.

Rubio, you are a sad, pathetic lil’ man, and for that, and for your surrendering any semblance of conscience and decency, you are this week’s This Fucking Guy.

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