Semafor: Rubio will appoint Darren Beattie, a speechwriter in Trump’s first term, acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said…Beattie was fired from the WH in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
Now it’s a badge of honor to be associated with White Nationalists! Trump legitimized them by pardoning the Proud Boys and the like for January 6th. Elon Musk is pro-Nazi.
ALL Democratic Senators voted to confirm Little Marco and his Trump penis jokes.
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F*cking awesome!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
That is a headline written in irony, right?😒
Rubio has gone beyond caving to his master. He is now groveling.
JFC
Wow, good thing we ended "diversity" hiring so we could go all out on hiring white nationalists! Making America [Something] Again!
Marco the Lapdog doing as Master demands.
Does Senator not know how to write a headline? Here, I'll fix it: Nazi sympathizer re-hired by Trump to help lead diplomacy.
They keep picking the worst of society. However if you told Rubio that being a white nationalist was bad, he'd probably call this hire Republican style diversity & inclusion. It seems that Trump's white House is a place where racists can feel included, huh?
Darren sucks, fuck darren
I mean, MAGA intellectual is a pretty easy contest to win.
Trump put him there to be his eyes and ears on Rubio.
MAGA & intellectual CANNOT be used in the same headline.
Think we can safely assume that public diplomacy is not going to be a priority for these people.
Democrats need to primary every single Democratic Senator who voted to confirm Rubio (oh, that’s all of them?)
Ad Semafor to the list of media sane washers. He’s a mouth-breathing racist not an “intellectual”. Either Semafor doesn’t know what the word means, or the editor is a fan of this kind of nazi scum.
"intellectual"
“MAGA intellectual = garden variety moron”
This is a fucking disaster.
"intellectual"? I thought disney sucking up to trump by settling lawsuit is so bad but you "independent" journalists can do better than that.
MAGA and intellectual I dont know not go together
A literal fucking Klansman.
Intellectual MAGA?? C’mon lol. The jokes write themselves…
How deep is the bottom of the barrel
MAGA Intellectual - quite an oxymoron...
I wish I'd stopped being stunned and aghast, but there's something new every day. Well, damn near every *minute*...
Meanwhile this is also happening but where is the reporting on it: bsky.app/profile/camp...
“Diplomacy”??????
No, just NO!! He's a racist misogynistic pig!
DEI - Dangerous Extremist Incel
Why not call him a "white nationalist" in your headline, rather than an "intellectual"?
Nazi Christo Nationalist in the state department. What could go wrong?
Just perfect. The entire former Republican Party has lost their ever loving minds.
Surely the great media in this country will relentlessly hound Rubio about why he is hiring someone who went to a conference with white nationalists, right????? Lol who am I kidding. Of course they wont.
Thanks Dems who voted for Rubio. This is on you.
'Maga intellectual' is a whopper of a paradox
Another Nazi in the Trump government…
"MAGA intellectual" 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
Intellectual is a stretch
MAGA intellectual is an oxymoron.
Yes white nationalists are all warm and fuzzy in this administration. Fuck trump
Great job, senators who rubber stamped Rubio!
👁️ 👁️
Chud pseudo intellectual sophist shit spinner
Maga intellectual is an oxy moron
This is sick! Darren Beattie is the problem. He cannot be confirmed!
"MAGA Intellectual" That's a good one, in an oxymoronic way.
“Intellectual”
Isn't "MAGA intellectual" an oxymoron?
Rubio’s gone. Drunk the kool-aid. Rational one, my ass.
Intellectual?
Isn’t MAGA intellectual an oxymoron
you beat me to it.
Seems nice.
George Carlin just pissed himself: MAGA "intellectual" ;)
All the best people
Only the best people...
According to @semafor, White Nationalists are "intellectuals" now.
Beastie is an open white nationalists who has used threats of violence against people who dare to criticize him.
LOL... Yeah. As if Little Marco the Gopher had any say on that. Rubio will take whatever trump tells him to take. That ghoul was installed there to remind him who's the boss.
Fascists everywhere. I thought Rubio remembered a thing or two about Cuba. I guess not.
MAGA intellectual is an oxymoron
Please no. “MAGA intellectual” is not a the right term for a group of people who believe in alternative facts.
Marco Rubio has no dignity. No Latino should be supportive of white supremacists. At best, they consider some Latinos to be useful idiots (see Rubio). You'll never be white enough for them, little Marco. Let it go.
“MAGA intellectual”, really?
Diplomacy? Oh hahahahahahahahaha!
Oh that’s just wonderful 🙄
There are no sane Republicans! Marco Rubio cannot be trusted
F this guy !!
Great!! Just gets better every day
Being a white national is a prerequisite for this admin.
Well of course.
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And he's already trying to throw Taiwan under the bus...
How many Democratic senators voted to confirm Rubio? Oh yeah, every one of them. Even though he would’ve passed without their votes, Dems need to fight everything Trumps does, and admit that even people they consider reasonable, like Rubio, are loyalists who will execute on Trump‘s extreme agenda
Rubio won't last long anyway. Of all nominees he was probably the only one who stands upto to china but considering musk's tesla business in china, trump will sack him within an year
Not good.
“MAGA intellectual” is the oxymoron of the year.
No such thing. 😑😑😑
Is that a Morons Are Gutting America intellectual?
I was going to say the same thing!
It's bc he went to a White Supremacy conference. Conferences are for intellectuals.
I came here to say this.
Certainly is
Undersecretary for public diplomacy… These people don’t even believe in diplomacy though…
what the hell happened to Rubio, formerly normie Republican
The direct antecedent of this position was Director of the US Information Agency (USIA) a highly regarded public diplomacy agency before its 1999 merger into the State Department. Renowned journalist Edward R. Murrow was once USIA Director. How sad to see the role filled today by a hateful idiot.
“MAGA intellectual”? He has the brain of a 3 yr old child.
So he's in the upper echelon of MAGA intellectuals is what I hear you saying.
Any idea what argument (if any) Rubio is making that Darren Beattie qualifies under the Vacancies Act to serve as an acting-Under Secretary? bsky.app/profile/kfil...
@ajosephoconnell.bsky.social Do YOU have an answer for this? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/kdby...
I assume Beattie was put in 1st assistant job to UnderSec & deputy role isn't PAS, which makes Beattie the default acting under the FVRA. Can 1st assts be named after a vacancy? OLC & I have argued yes; Biden did it too. Some have targeted this for reform but typically would allow in first 180 days.
If Kash Patel's nomination fails, could he then become acting-FBI Director that way?
If Senate votes down the nomination, another statute would prevent him from getting paid to do the PAS role, in an acting capacity or through delegation. He can't work for free under another law. But if nomination were withdrawn, yes (I think the AG has to sign off on the deputy director pick).
If the second point is about the Antideficiency Act, that I knew, but only today did I learn why – so the person can't come back later and ask to be paid. 😳 Thanks.
Now there’s an oxymoron a MAGA (Make American Gutted Again) Intellectual.
“Intellectual” is doing a loooot of heavy lifting here.
It’s a good thing that every Democrat voted to confirm Rubio. He’s so reasonable, ha ha.
Can he really return ?
Marco is completely under Trump's thumb. He won't wipe his butt without asking first.
MAGA intellectual???? There's no such thing. Way to go suckface Rubio.
"MAGA intellectual" some of you are irretrievably broken.
Someone needs to do a deep dive on Mr. Beattie. There is no bio info for him on the web. He claims to be Jewish (doubtful). He claims he was a visiting professor at Duke (he was an instructor). We need some deep background on him cause he looks like a big liar.
So Little Marco Rubio was a white Cuban nationalist after all.
MAGA intellectual? What’s that?
I dunno who Ben Smith is, but fuck that guy for calling this douchebag Nazi loser an "intellectual" here
MAGA Intellectual is an oxymoron
Can this get any worse?
“Intellectual” is doing a lot of work in that title.
Did…did he write the headline?
I wonder what all the Dem's who voted for Rubio think about this?????
What could possibly go wrong?
Rubio appoints another MAGA intellectual Anton, who on Trump wrote: “Conservatives routinely present a litany of ills plaguing the body politic. Crime, intrusive, out-of-control government - McCarthyism. Ever-higher taxes and ever-deteriorating services and infrastructure”. #Trump #MAGA #Dictator
I wasn't aware that there were any "MAGA intellectuals."
"MAGA Intellectual".... kind of an oxymoron , no?
No such thing as a MAGA intellectual.
"MAGA Intellectual"? I'd sooner believe in a unicorn.
MAGA intellectual is an oxymoron
Intellectual? He’s a racist troll at best.
He will fit right in.
Should we be surprised? Little Marco bent over for Donny long ago.
I'm sorry, come again. . . . "MAGA intellectual"?
The normalization of the insanity needs to stop. The guy is a Richard Spencer sycophant and spreader of all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories. MAGA intellectual is absolutely ridiculous.
That would be anyone who can write a tweet or "truth" without the German-style capitalizing of all nouns and myriad other errors characteristic of Cheeto Mussolini's communications.
Wow, talk about grading on a curve. But it's only a matter of time before the DEI hires start
Bottom of the barrel. Just when you think it can’t get worse.
They clearly believe the public has shown they are fine with white nationalism...and sadly, they have.
Marco isn’t going to last long, I predict
Does it really matter? Do you think Lil’ Marco has any meaningful policy influence?
So how long before this POS tells Rubio to “take a knee”
‘Cause hate
Heckuva job, Lil Marco.
Oh, joy!
He answered the want ad.
“Intellectual” is hilarious.
@senmarcorubio.bsky.social this man you are hiring is disgraceful and disgusting. Period.
Well based on his previous work his writing skills might be lacking.
According to the AP Style Guide, "intellectual" should be in "quotes" to signify "bullshit".
Rubio has completely gone to the dark side…
The press need to question them on this every time they try to speak.
Of course he was. 😡
Magat intellectual is an oxymoron of the highest order.
Only the best people
Ideoturge maybe. Not intellectual.
Great job Marco…🙄
Stop the insanity! 🤯
Every single Dem Senator voted for Rubio's appointment. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Rubio was an open Trump sychophant & never stood up to Trump once Trump secured his nomination in 2016. Rubio voted 88% with Trump during his term as 45. He became more Trump fanatical while Biden was in WH. Dems failed us.
Marco is the very definition of a permanently limp dick. This is the apex of his life: given the illusion of power by a man who holds him in utter contempt and is using him as a ventriloquist's dummy. Marco apparently loves having a depot's fist up his ass.
I get the idea of giving cover to vote against more "controversial" picks, but it's a case of a strategy from years ago that doesn't matter much now.
"MAGA intellectual" is an oxymoron.
Intellectual. They just won the 'debase the meaning of words' contest
“MAGA intellectual” is oxymoronic and the headline writer was just moronic.
Men failing upwards.
MAGA and intellectual?
Even I know this asshole’s name already. Can’t they find new weasels to appoint to stuff?
Why is he being rehired? 😠
Not even trying to hide it any more.
lol at Rubio just being handed a KKK to do list from Stephen Miller and having to finish them as the last act of his career before the riots start
Rubio confirmed by Senate unanimously. Proud day for Democrats. @chuckschumer.com You own this now.
"MAGA intellectual" lol wut
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Rubio’s incompetence has been overshadowed by the other horsemen of the apocalypse.
They have no intellectuals. There is no underpinning philosophy except grievance
Rubio is a vacuum in the shape of a suit.
Nothing says diplomacy like “hanging out with white nationalists” (heavy, dripping sarcasm)…
Hate to point this out but the words “MAGA Intellectual” is oxymoronic.
"MAGA intellectual." Fuck you, Semafor.
Little Marco cannot grovel enough.
Of course
Oxymoron much?
A-fucking-mazing.
MAGA and intellectual does not belong in the same sentence
MAGA intellectual is an oxymoron. They decided intellectuals were part of the out-group and have been calling for the mass incarceration and deaths of intellectuals akin to the Khmer Rouge
Little Marco has no backbone
What in the unholy blazes is Rubio thinking?
He’s not allowed to think independently - it’s a condition of his appointment. Here’s his “priorities and mission” statement from the State Dept. website - every jingoistic word of it seems to have come directly from the WH: www.state.gov/priorities-a...
Trump broke Rubio.
I’m old enough to remember when Rubio seemed like he could have been a decent President. Now I wouldn’t trust him to water my plants.
The Marco Rubio we knew in 2016 is deceased. 😞
Just 7 years ago being a Nazi was disqualifying, now its a resume booster.
Only hiring the best and the brightest….
I don't understand the groveling these people have come to muster when it comes to the likes of a convicted felon. Have these people who he used to attack have no shame, no moral compass? Do they not know that they are just expenditures until they've done his bidding?
Oh more great people. Only the best
Only the worst
So another Yatzy.
Isn't "mAgA intellectual" kinda like a smart turd?
Perfukt
Revolver news guy. This was one of the first losers to legitimize the claim that antifa started j6 run cover for right wing militias.
99 - 0 Good job you fucking loser Senators.
So Rubio is a white nationalist too. We should have known.
Token latino is a better term for him
They all just look evil. It's uncanny.
Intellectual? Just stop.
"MAGA intellectual" is an oxymoron.
Calling him an “intellectual” seems a tad generous.
Seems like such a quaint reason to get fired from this administration.
🔴 Donkey alert! I’ve donated healthy amounts to the DNC for 20 years and craploads for presidential cycles. If the DNC doesn’t develop and deploy an action plan immediately, my funds are going to another organization. There’s no time for fucking around.
Well some of them have taken off their sheets!!!
WTF?
What a runt Rubio is.
MAGA and intellectual in the same sentence 😀😀 Sorry that doesn’t compute
