Crossing threads with this and subsequent comments, the NSC exists in large part precisely to prevent a bureaucratic faction like Centcom from hijacking US policy.
DOGE figured out that Secretary of State is a part-time job. It was ridiculous that we were paying someone a full-time salary for 15-20 hours a work of week.
Does anyone else remember when Rubio was supposed to be the conservative with scruples and morals?
3: I listen to a Never Trumper podcast from a former Republican spokesman guy, named Tim Miller
Called the Bulwark. The Bulwark is kind of Atlantic adjacent. I don't listen to the Bill Kristol or David Frum stuff, but I like Miller, ecause he's very suspicious of AI, crypto and the tech bros. Miller described Rubio's expression during that press conference as his soul leaving his body.
I don't care for Bill Kristol at all, but I do think it's interesting he has explicitly said we shouldn't throw trans people over the bus, which many Democrats are unwilling to do.
I was impressed with the press conference featuring Trump backed by the three stooges - Vance, Rubio, and Hegseth, and they were all trying to do "this is my show resolve face" and looking like dipshits. Except Rubio, who was also trying to do that, and looking like a dipshit, but who was also the only one who had the "oh shit what have we just done" look of panic in his eyes.
Of the four I think he's the only one who recognizes the gravity of the situation. I hope its eating him up inside, that fucker.
I guess 4 beat me to 5. Yeah, that press conference.
I have mixed feelings about this style of sober editorial
There was a story the other day in the NYT headlined: "A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award."
Sample from the NYT article:
"The People cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty," he wrote, adding that if the courts did not act to ensure a white country, the matter would be decided "not by the careful balance of Justitia's scales, but by the gruesome slashing of her sword."
The student got an award from his professor -- a Trump appointee federal judge -- leading the NYT to stroke its chin:
That left some students and faculty members at the law school, considered Florida's most prestigious, to wonder, and to worry: What merit could the judge have seen in it?
Well, no. Nobody with any goddam sense at all is wondering about this.
The weirdest thing about Rubio at NARA was when employees at NARA apparently learned about it via media reports.
7: I saw that article and had that same thought.
Sounds like Rubio may not actually be doing that job:
Trump fired Colleen Shogan, the most recent U.S. Archivist, earlier this year. He named State Department Secretary Marco Rubio as acting archivist, though James Byron, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, is currently managing the agency on a day-to-day basis.
It's a good thing Florida isn't real.
Does Rubio get to collect a separate paycheck for each of these gigs?
According to the article, he does not.
The article doesn't say that Florida is real.
14: He gets paid in sharp jabs to the head and crypto.
Utterly horrific Supreme Court ruling, no reasons given at all. Such complete contempt for the rule of law and centuries of tradition.