Marco Rubio Looks Like a Total Dunce

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Has Never Looked More Inept After His Handling of Russia

The moment for which we have been waiting finally has arrived. Marco Rubio, the Incredible Shrinking Politician, has been miniaturized beyond the limits of the human eye. He's going to be doing press conferences by electron microscope any day now. The shrinkage, in every sense of the word, ran wild on the subject of the administration's alleged plan to settle the conflict in Ukraine by giving Russia everything it wants.

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Military Personnel Shouldn't Follow Unlawful Orders, No Matter What Trump or JD Vance Think

Last week, a group of Democratic congresspeople, all of them veterans either from the military or from the intelligence agencies, released a video in which they reminded people currently serving that not only are they able to refuse an illegal order, but that those in the military are required to do so. This, of course, sent the usual escadrille of flying monkeys into low-earth orbit, from the president and the vice president all the way down the opinion food chain to Bill Maher.

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Pete Hegseth Doesn't Seem to Understand Where America Ends and Mexico Begins

The Department of Defense placed suspicious warning signs on Mexican territory, further proving that putting a second-string TV anchor in charge of the military was a bad idea. Isn't this the administration that has a fanatical devotion to borders? Somebody find whatever liquor store the secretary is staring at lovingly these days and get him back to work.

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The U.S. Judge on the Comey Case Basically Just Told Trump and Pam Bondi to Shove It

A federal judge is generally reluctant to appear in a leading role in a public farce, unless it is part of the entertainment at a retirement smoker for a fellow judge. Early on, Currie realized that she was being asked to be one of the lead clowns in a theatrical manifestation of the president's deranged vengeance. She turned down the part on Monday.

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John Thune and Mike Johnson Are in Quite the Tiff

Look at Speaker Moses as he leaves a gala dinner in honor of the Saudi leader Muhammad bin Salman and tries to address the way that Thune allowed the Senate to pass the Epstein-files bill by unanimous consent, despite Johnson's wishes that there be allowed amendments to it in the Senate, which would have mired the bill for weeks before it was ready to send to the president for his signature, veto, or ignoring. I mean, look at this guy. That's a guy with Master Alarms flashing in his brain.

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