Israel forced the US to run the race. We are so weak.
Munkeyslovebananas on
Rubio probably told the truth. Trump’s trying to spin it like any narcissist would, because he can’t ever be seen as not the one in charge.
BlotchComics on
“We’re protecting ourselves by preemptively causing the thing we’re protecting ourselves from, duh.” – Marco Rubio
ClusterFoxtrot on
Are they scrambling or is it more hot potato until something else happens?
thistimelineisweird on
This is why you never do cocaine on the job.
Philo_Publius1776 on
This is obviously a lie. Rubio was literally caught telling Israel to attack 3 days before the war started just so the US could use this as justification. The talking points were literally leaked *before* the war started.
How are people not remembering that? I feel like I’m experiencing some twilight zone or Mandela effect sort of shit.
Someone make it make sense.
recentgrooves on
They would be scrambling if they had any shame, they would be scrambling if the media pursued the story like they did for Joe Biden’s aging. But neither of those are happening. So they will continue to lie until they get to a story that makes sense to them
I405CA on
Rubio was probably trying to create an offramp that the US could use if this goes badly. “We got involved in order to prevent the US from being hit first. Mission accomplished, we can leave now.”
But Trump doesn’t like the idea that anything that he likes was someone else’s idea. So he has to spin it accordingly.
Trump has a bloated ego.
CAM6913 on
Netanyahu told Trump that if he didn’t attack Iran on Saturday he would not give him Gaza to build his riviera of the Middle East and everyone would say he was weak for not starting the war. That’s all it would take to get trump to attack
sailriteultrafeed on
These people are huge fucking morons. How hard would it have been to just say “we have credible intelligence that Iran planned to launch ICBMs against the US and our interests.”
palookaboy on
> “Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran and that’s why we needed to get involved. Today the president said Iran was going to get—” started a reporter, before Rubio interjected.
>
> “No. Were you there yesterday? That’s false. I was asked very specifically—were you there yesterday?” said Rubio.
>
> “Yes, I asked the question,” responded the reporter.
Low key the funniest part of this article.
ArrowheadDZ on
I wouldn’t fall for any of it.
One possibility is Rubio went off-schedule and said some made up shit, and it contradicted White House messaging in a way they didn’t like.
Another possibility is Rubio is being honest, that really was the rationale, and the White House is upset that the quiet parts weren’t supposed to be said out loud.
But more plausible than either of those, given consistent patterns of past behavior, is that is just flooding the zone, it’s simply firing a shit musket into the crowd. Rubio says A. Vance says B. Hegseth says C. The White House denies A. The White House doubles down on B. Then Lutnick publicly endorses C. Then the White House agrees briefly with Lutnick’s version of C, but never agreed to Hegseth’s version.
By the end of the week we are left with nothing. There’s no rational that they can be held accountable for. No one can run in 2026 on opposition to the rationale, because there won’t be one.
The stalwart republicans that oppose A are never able to coalesce a meaningful challenge because it’s deniable that A was the motivation. Same with B, same with C.
It’s becomes Schrödinger’s war justification. Whatever justification you can live with, it could be that, or maybe not. Whatever justification you can’t live with, maybe it’s not that, who’s to say? And it just goes away. The energy that will have to be expended to get a concrete answer, and then hand-craft a coalition to oppose it, becomes insurmountable and all that is left is for Congress to say is “Well, that was a thing. So, Olive Garden?”
This is always the MO. This is the Roy Cohn playbook.
CachinnatingCanuck on
Rubio: that’s false, we’re you there yesterday??
Reporter: Uh, yeah, I asked the question…
Republicans really are the dumbest fucking scum. 😂
EricThePerplexed on
The Administration is a B-team rabble of amateur orcs.
Nasty, vicious, destructive, dangerous and painfully stupid. We’ve elevated Sauron’s most inept to be our rulers. Oh, and we gave them control over our nuclear arsenal too.
God help the world.
Aggressive-Cut5836 on
The dumbest explanation is now coming from Trump- that Iran was going to attack (didn’t specify what) if US/Israel didn’t attack first. Now why in the hell would they want to do that? They would need more time to build up their missile and nuclear capabilities, they were in no position to strike. And then the problem is that Trump said he completely destroyed their nuclear capabilities back in June but somehow in 6 months they were already being rebuilt. So what happens 6 months after this war, back to square one with a new Iranian nuclear program? So get rid of the Iranian regime, ok, what if the next thing that replaces it is a lot worse? No critical thinking is ever coming from this administration. Quick to spend tax money and American lives, that’s about it.
rbourbon on
The Epstein files forced Trump into doing this.
Beatlepoint on
We let Israel pick our president, I don’t know when we last had self determination but Israel has the latest lease on us.
MadMartegen on
Train wreck of an administration
Raspberries-Are-Evil on
They are all liars and pathetically unqualified to do any of this.
We are in real, REAL trouble.
srfrosky on
Let it be known as The Rubio Defense: “I attacked first because I knew you would retaliate once my friend attacked you unprovoked”
Calm_Chemist_4952 on
With so many incompetents in the regime of the absolute worst president of all time, it’s a never ending scramble of mistakes piling on top of each other to the point that nobody knows what’s next.
Odd_Collection7431 on
They should be scrambling over the Epstein files, remember?
Ghettoman1315 on
“No. I might have forced their hand,” Trump [said](https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2028888540432499022). “We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that.”
**So he started a war based on his feelings.**
Rastrick on
The pedophiles whole cabinet are a bunch of keystone cops.
semiquaver on
> No. Were you there yesterday? That’s false. I was asked very specifically—were you there yesterday?” said Rubio.
>
> “Yes, I asked the question,” responded the reporter.
Brutal
captaincanada84 on
They’re terrible at keeping their stories together
It sounds to me like Rubio was trying to make an argument for this being legal under international law. Which makes sense. Unfortunately (or fortunately), he said the quiet part loud.
anon-a-SqueekSqueek on
Israel: “We are going to attack Iran no matter what, and if you don’t join us Iran will fucking destroy us, so you better help”
US: “Fuck off we won’t help you if you do that”
Israel: “Actually maybe we don’t all want to die, never mind”
The end.
I am better at foreign policy than the US government, please clap.
Of course in reality Israel is probably blackmailing the Epstein Pedophile in Chief.
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Israel forced the US to run the race. We are so weak.
Rubio probably told the truth. Trump’s trying to spin it like any narcissist would, because he can’t ever be seen as not the one in charge.
“We’re protecting ourselves by preemptively causing the thing we’re protecting ourselves from, duh.” – Marco Rubio
Are they scrambling or is it more hot potato until something else happens?
This is why you never do cocaine on the job.
This is obviously a lie. Rubio was literally caught telling Israel to attack 3 days before the war started just so the US could use this as justification. The talking points were literally leaked *before* the war started.
How are people not remembering that? I feel like I’m experiencing some twilight zone or Mandela effect sort of shit.
Someone make it make sense.
They would be scrambling if they had any shame, they would be scrambling if the media pursued the story like they did for Joe Biden’s aging. But neither of those are happening. So they will continue to lie until they get to a story that makes sense to them
Rubio was probably trying to create an offramp that the US could use if this goes badly. “We got involved in order to prevent the US from being hit first. Mission accomplished, we can leave now.”
But Trump doesn’t like the idea that anything that he likes was someone else’s idea. So he has to spin it accordingly.
Trump has a bloated ego.
Netanyahu told Trump that if he didn’t attack Iran on Saturday he would not give him Gaza to build his riviera of the Middle East and everyone would say he was weak for not starting the war. That’s all it would take to get trump to attack
These people are huge fucking morons. How hard would it have been to just say “we have credible intelligence that Iran planned to launch ICBMs against the US and our interests.”
> “Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran and that’s why we needed to get involved. Today the president said Iran was going to get—” started a reporter, before Rubio interjected.
>
> “No. Were you there yesterday? That’s false. I was asked very specifically—were you there yesterday?” said Rubio.
>
> “Yes, I asked the question,” responded the reporter.
Low key the funniest part of this article.
I wouldn’t fall for any of it.
One possibility is Rubio went off-schedule and said some made up shit, and it contradicted White House messaging in a way they didn’t like.
Another possibility is Rubio is being honest, that really was the rationale, and the White House is upset that the quiet parts weren’t supposed to be said out loud.
But more plausible than either of those, given consistent patterns of past behavior, is that is just flooding the zone, it’s simply firing a shit musket into the crowd. Rubio says A. Vance says B. Hegseth says C. The White House denies A. The White House doubles down on B. Then Lutnick publicly endorses C. Then the White House agrees briefly with Lutnick’s version of C, but never agreed to Hegseth’s version.
By the end of the week we are left with nothing. There’s no rational that they can be held accountable for. No one can run in 2026 on opposition to the rationale, because there won’t be one.
The stalwart republicans that oppose A are never able to coalesce a meaningful challenge because it’s deniable that A was the motivation. Same with B, same with C.
It’s becomes Schrödinger’s war justification. Whatever justification you can live with, it could be that, or maybe not. Whatever justification you can’t live with, maybe it’s not that, who’s to say? And it just goes away. The energy that will have to be expended to get a concrete answer, and then hand-craft a coalition to oppose it, becomes insurmountable and all that is left is for Congress to say is “Well, that was a thing. So, Olive Garden?”
This is always the MO. This is the Roy Cohn playbook.
Rubio: that’s false, we’re you there yesterday??
Reporter: Uh, yeah, I asked the question…
Republicans really are the dumbest fucking scum. 😂
The Administration is a B-team rabble of amateur orcs.
Nasty, vicious, destructive, dangerous and painfully stupid. We’ve elevated Sauron’s most inept to be our rulers. Oh, and we gave them control over our nuclear arsenal too.
God help the world.
The dumbest explanation is now coming from Trump- that Iran was going to attack (didn’t specify what) if US/Israel didn’t attack first. Now why in the hell would they want to do that? They would need more time to build up their missile and nuclear capabilities, they were in no position to strike. And then the problem is that Trump said he completely destroyed their nuclear capabilities back in June but somehow in 6 months they were already being rebuilt. So what happens 6 months after this war, back to square one with a new Iranian nuclear program? So get rid of the Iranian regime, ok, what if the next thing that replaces it is a lot worse? No critical thinking is ever coming from this administration. Quick to spend tax money and American lives, that’s about it.
The Epstein files forced Trump into doing this.
We let Israel pick our president, I don’t know when we last had self determination but Israel has the latest lease on us.
Train wreck of an administration
They are all liars and pathetically unqualified to do any of this.
We are in real, REAL trouble.
Let it be known as The Rubio Defense: “I attacked first because I knew you would retaliate once my friend attacked you unprovoked”
With so many incompetents in the regime of the absolute worst president of all time, it’s a never ending scramble of mistakes piling on top of each other to the point that nobody knows what’s next.
They should be scrambling over the Epstein files, remember?
“No. I might have forced their hand,” Trump [said](https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2028888540432499022). “We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that.”
**So he started a war based on his feelings.**
The pedophiles whole cabinet are a bunch of keystone cops.
> No. Were you there yesterday? That’s false. I was asked very specifically—were you there yesterday?” said Rubio.
>
> “Yes, I asked the question,” responded the reporter.
Brutal
They’re terrible at keeping their stories together
So he’s admitting that Israel effectively [Leeroy Jenkins](https://youtu.be/ufeEAxz1AH8?si=UdkfLewbDz5LaDos)’d the U.S. into attacking Iran?
It sounds to me like Rubio was trying to make an argument for this being legal under international law. Which makes sense. Unfortunately (or fortunately), he said the quiet part loud.
Israel: “We are going to attack Iran no matter what, and if you don’t join us Iran will fucking destroy us, so you better help”
US: “Fuck off we won’t help you if you do that”
Israel: “Actually maybe we don’t all want to die, never mind”
The end.
I am better at foreign policy than the US government, please clap.
Of course in reality Israel is probably blackmailing the Epstein Pedophile in Chief.