Rubio Claims Efforts To Silence Trump ‘Will Only Stoke New Grievances’ | Talking Points Memo

Hours after Twitter announced its decision to permanently suspend President Donald Trump’s account on its platform, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) suggested that actions taken by “a small & unelected group” to silence and erase the President “will only stoke new grievances.”


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“Actions have consequences”, wasn’t that a conservative mantra?

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Sounds like “Little Marco” (Polo!) is trying to position himself firmly on both sides of every issue.

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Gez wonder where he got that from

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Why is he even talking? And why should we give a shit what he thinks?

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FFS. Marco, fuck off and die.

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And your suggestion Senator Rubio is…? Do nothing when it counts? You and the Republican Party already did that, and look at what it led to. This is a serious time for serious people - please go home.

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Little Marco squeaks anon.

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Even those who oppose Trump should see the danger of having a small & unelected group with the power to silence & erase anyone.

And their actions will only stoke new grievances that will end up fueling the very thing they claim to be trying to prevent.

Let’s be nice to the bully who stole our lunch money and then beat us up or else he might beat us up again!

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Too stupid to know when to STFU.

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Rubio is dumber than I thought.

Much dumber

His relevance has passed.

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Wait! This isn’t Gasbag Sunday when Rs are given air time to say stoopid on the networks. He’s jumped line the out of fear he’ll be bypassed tomorrow because there are bigger and better gasbags.

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Rubio is just another extremist-appeasing hypocrite who likes private-sector Capitalism (or a small & unelected group with power•) when it suits him, but dislikes it when private corporations or political opponents make him sad.

Let Trump buy a newspaper, say the Miami Herald, and spew his garbage there. Or take over PARLER with Eric/Jr./Ivanka’s inheritance.

  • Kochs, Mercer, Adelson, Dark-money richies, ad nauseum
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Now they might to have do some “journalism,” rather than just reading his tweets to us.

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“will only stoke new grievances.”

No Marco, it’s called being responsible and holding people accountable for their words and actions.

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This notion, pushed by the spineless entities like Marco Rubio and Fox News, that the President of the United States, a man who has access the the nation’s podium and would be covered by every national and international media outlet should he choose to use it, has been “silenced” because he can’t use a Google Play app, is patently absurd.

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Don’t fight Hitler, it will only make him stronger.

I don’t make that comparison lightly. But appeasement of Donald Trump has only made him stronger too. Might as well fight.

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God he’s even more of a craven, pathetic lickspittle than the Canadian Goblin King Rafael Cruz.

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Running this through my 'Macro Interpreter ™: ’ We knew this would happen and that’s why we didn’t convict on impeachment.

FUCK Rubio and ALL of those spinless GOP Senators

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Psssst Marco. You many want to block Trump from running in 2024 if you ever want to do another run.

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