I, for one, would fucking hope POTUS knows what he is doing.
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Yes, but Republicans have to hope/tell everybody that he doesnāt.
US politics remind me increasingly of Northern Irish politics in the 1960s. This is not a compliment.
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There were two announcers alternating the names. Perhaps there was an audio problem and Carson and Trump couldnāt hear their names being announced? (One voice was much louder than the other in the video clip.)
Not that I support either candidate, but Iāll give them the benefit of the doubt on this.
I think Rubioās people will play this as just another instance of ātelevision-itis.ā We should get him a cute Cindy Brady wig.
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Incidentally, the use of the term robot is an insult to robots. The word derives from Slavonic - specifically Czech - and the root is rabot/ŃŠ°Š±Š¾Ń, to work. Is there any evidence that Rubio has ever worked at anything useful?
I think the proper word is āautomatonā, something that operates by itself, like a music box that just repeats the same tune every time the lid is lifted but is not necessarily useful.
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In The Matrix they did say that we couldnāt handle living in a perfect world. I assume that means that Bernie Sanders was going to win and be the best POTUS ever, before the glitch happened.
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Rubio has to keep drinking water to keep his CPU from overheating.
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Perhaps heās running on the BIG.little architecture and when it gets warm under the lights he switches to the small, slow, low power CPU. The solution is obvious and involves a liquid nitrogen supply.
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We were watching it on the DVR. I thought my wife had rewound it a bit - nope - it was just Rubio repeating the same thing.
The animosity toward Obama and anything associated with him is just off the charts. Someone needs to tell this guys that his presidency is over come January and he is not actually running in this election.
I swear Obama could come out against curb stomping and heād be attacked for it. āMurder and assault is illegal already - he didnāt need to say heās against curb stomping! Whatās his agenda?!?! Is he trying to get the word out that curb stomping is a thing? I had never heard of it before he came out against it. Are we going to see an increase in curb stomping now thanks to this bumbling fool of a president?ā
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Not know Barack Obama does, what doing he is? Dispel this myth, we must.
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My guess is that Rubio understands everything just fine. When campaigning, truth is irrelevantā¦as long as you can get the listeners / voters to believe you.
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Fair enough.
However, while any claim of āHeās not utterly disconnected from reality; he just plays someone like that on TVā is OK for an actor, itās not acceptable for a Presidential candidate.
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I donāt mean to gaslight Rubio, but he may have been on heavy doses of anti-anxiety meds and literally have been unable to remember what he said ninety seconds before. Or maybe everything Christie said about him was true, but it seemed to me Christie was bullying Rubio to edge him out in polls. Anyway it was really funny to see talking-point regurgitation confront ruthless aggression. Also Trump said he was against the TPP and homeless people dying in the streets, despite obviously having no idea how to form policy or pass laws (though as a real estate developer, he has probably had much more experience with imminent domain stuff than his rivals).
Anyway it always impresses me how this group of people can mask incompetence with talking points, particularly throwing shade at Obama and articulating displeasure over perceived attacks to the right to wield firearms. Also scoring major points are declarations of loyalty to the group and homage to the hero-cult of Reagan.
Also the part where some candidates waited at the edge of the stage to be introduced twice was ADORABLE. It was like they were puppies!
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Whatās weird to me is that Rubio apparently thought that āLetās dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesnāt know what heās doing. He knows exactly what heās doing,ā was a powerful and damaging enough line to use once, much less repeatedly. Even in context, itās not really a very meaningful statement, and almost sounds complimentary of the President. Not sure what he was thinking; was he just blurting out the only soundbite he could think of in a flopsweat panic?
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The fact that Rubio interpreted Obamaās inclusive and inspiring remarks at the mosque last week as ādivisiveā and āpitting people against each otherā is as clear an illustration as I can think of. Theyāre not even pretending to listen to him. Heās their enemy and everything he says is instantly terrible, no matter what, full stop.
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Iām disappointed nobody has made any kind of āMarco Rubiotā pun yet.
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Aaaaaand Rubio, in true form, has claimed that heās so proud of having said the same line four times that he now says that he wants them to ākeep playing it on repeatā, because itās such a powerful statement that he wants it replayed as much as possible (even though itās essentially meaningless).
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And like a true republican too. Never admit a mistake! (Let alone apologize.) Their macho, truculent base sees any backstepping as a sign of weakness.
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thatās not quite what gaslighting is.
More like begging the question, or maybe red herring?
I agree with your greater point though, to clarify.
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Isnāt Republican backer strategy to have a candidate who canāt think for himself so he will just follow the program? If you are right this would make Rubio eminently qualified to be a Republican President, right up till he accidentally gives the order to bomb the wrong country. āDid I mean Iran or Israel?ā
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