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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,216 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:44 AM Aug 2018

Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are the two most infuriating individuals in politics today.

They would best be classified as bipolar if bipolar was strictly defined as alternating between "possessing instances of pragmatic, independent thought" and "being complete and utterly weak and spineless cowards who will capitulate to partisan political expediency in a nanosecond because they have zero self-respect."

I can trust neither of them because--sadly--they clearly are unable to trust themselves.

It's almost downright tragic.


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Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are the two most infuriating individuals in politics today. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 OP
There is a classification for both atreides1 Aug 2018 #1
Add Susan Collins to the list. femmocrat Aug 2018 #2
Add rand mikeysnot Aug 2018 #3
I'm pretty sure Rand Paul has been compromised by the Russians at this point. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 #4
Indeed Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2018 #10
Here is all you need to know about Rubio, Graham, Collins The Genealogist Aug 2018 #5
I don't find them the least bit frustrating Cosmocat Aug 2018 #6
I agree gratuitous Aug 2018 #16
They play to whatever audience they are in front of. Funtatlaguy Aug 2018 #7
Did you ever think, even in the most oblique fashion, that penis... 3catwoman3 Aug 2018 #14
Good Lord, never did I think so many things. Funtatlaguy Aug 2018 #15
They are what's classified as *WEASELS* along with Turtle, HATCH, CRUZ (insert others here)!1 UTUSN Aug 2018 #8
Yep! I can tell you that as a Floridian, "living with" Marco Rubipolar is something else.... FM123 Aug 2018 #9
Add Inhofe MiniMe Aug 2018 #11
Trump isn't more infuriating? Doodley Aug 2018 #12
Trump is Trump. Irredeemabily evil without a glimmer of hope. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 #13

atreides1

(16,094 posts)
1. There is a classification for both
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:47 AM
Aug 2018

It's called cowardice...both are the most mealy mouthed cowards that you can find anywhere...and that says volumes about the small minded jerks that vote for them!!!

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
2. Add Susan Collins to the list.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:50 AM
Aug 2018

How does she keep getting reelected? She is totally spineless and easily bamboozled.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,216 posts)
4. I'm pretty sure Rand Paul has been compromised by the Russians at this point.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:51 AM
Aug 2018

It definitely seems that way, at least.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,446 posts)
10. Indeed
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 11:02 AM
Aug 2018

He has clearly flipped. He wasn't nearly as much of a Trump bootlicker at the start of things as he is now. I wonder if something happened with that fight with his neighbor that has him compromised somehow. It seems like after that is when things sort of shifted for him.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
5. Here is all you need to know about Rubio, Graham, Collins
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:53 AM
Aug 2018

They are Republicans. They care about money and power. They are going to hitch their wagons to whomever will get them the most money and power. They could care less about anything else.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. I agree
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 02:05 PM
Aug 2018

I had a friend once upon a time who was wholly untrustworthy. If you let him into your confidence, sooner or later he would betray you. Sometimes to protect himself or further his own interest at your expense. Sometimes just for shits and giggles. After getting burned one time too many, I finally figured out that he wasn't to be trusted. A great guy, fun to hang around with, but don't say or do anything around him that you don't want boomeranging on you.

Graham and Rubio sometimes say or do the right thing, but it's mostly by accident. Don't rely on them for anything substantive, don't expect them to be stand-up guys. The only thing you can count on them for is that they will always let you down.

Funtatlaguy

(10,890 posts)
7. They play to whatever audience they are in front of.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 10:55 AM
Aug 2018

Or behind, in Lindsey’s case.
I’m sorry, couldn’t resist. Admittedly inappropriate.
Rubio still wondering why he brought up glove size to Trump in the primaries.
He hasn’t been the same since.
If the glove doesn’t fit, youve got a small d***.


3catwoman3

(24,066 posts)
14. Did you ever think, even in the most oblique fashion, that penis...
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 01:32 PM
Aug 2018

...size would be brought up (no pun intended) in a presidential primary?? I surely did not.

Funtatlaguy

(10,890 posts)
15. Good Lord, never did I think so many things.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 01:59 PM
Aug 2018

Like a serious Prez candidate:
Mocking a disability
Fat shaming women
Ridiculing war heroes
Calling blacks stupid
Etc etc etc.
I will never forgive today’s Repub party for foisting him on the world.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,216 posts)
13. Trump is Trump. Irredeemabily evil without a glimmer of hope.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 11:18 AM
Aug 2018

People like Graham or Rubio or Collins are a little different because they'll occasionally give you the false hope that they're not just mindless sheep and while we can't expect them to become Democrats, you might expect them to stand up to Trump's evil out of a sense of civic duty.

And then like Lucy pulling the football away, they'll inevitably fall back in line behind Trump even though you know even they can't stand him. But they're too weak to do otherwise.

That's what's so infuriating about them.

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