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D Kitterman's avatar

What's worse than spineless? Little Marco is gelatinous.

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WorldTraveler's avatar

I regret the day that 99 Senators voted for him to be in this role too. All around a horrible situation.

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Crone Life's avatar

Rubio is the living equivalent of a wall constructed from bricks of jelly

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Beau!'s avatar

Maggie -> Mags -> Magpie -> Mrs. Magoo is an excellent doggy nickname name evolution. Our pug went from Diego to Budge and our rescue (lab mix) went from Chloe to Schmoop.

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

My shelter lab went from Fergus (which is no longer his official first name) to Finnley Baloo Fergus O’Malley. 😁

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Joan's avatar

So far this winter, I have had mice in the basement, squirrels in the attic, and now possibly some kind of unwanted insect on the main floor. In other words, the Trump administration writ small. I’ve hired a “removal team”. And there my written analogy shall end.

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Melissa's avatar

And yet your household vermin will still be treated better!

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Toni McLellan's avatar

I would die for Maggie.

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Karen's avatar

The doggie is adorable. I do love pugs, which are the only dog not bred for a job to have decent personalities. (I had a high school friend whose mother bred mini Pomeranians. Those dogs thought shoes were urinals.) My neighbor’s pug is a delight, and I have never met a pug I didn’t adore. I would much prefer to talk about pugs and other dogs than Marco Rubio, who is a bipedal cockroach.

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Dana BC's avatar

Omg Maggie! She is like “have I hit the jackpot? I have hit the jackpot. This is real?” <3

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Kristin's avatar

I knew long ago Rubio drank the orange Kool Aid and am not surprised that he is so spineless. You see clips of long ago him of speaking against Trump and now looking subservient and weak. We saw that as he was sitting on the couch watching the President of Ukraine and ALLY being criticized and we see it now with these illegal deportations.

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Feral Midwest's avatar

You guys remember Percy from The Green Mile? That’s who Rubio reminds me of: infuriatingly smug when he feels untouchable, total sniveling wimp when you take away his symbolic power.

Also, thank you for sharing Maggie! She’s perfect.

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Melissa's avatar

I'll never be able to eat an eclair again.

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Kris Jackson's avatar

HARD SAME!

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

😂😂😂

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Jeremy Rosen's avatar

Please do rag on Cuomo for that. He used to be HUD Secretary and now he’s asking Chat GPT for housing policies.

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Karen's avatar

Since this is about Marco Rubio and tangentially about how awful the Trump Administration is, you might enjoy what I wrote about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case: https://coxkaren6.substack.com/p/washing-our-hands

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GMB's avatar
Apr 18Edited

Agree with the choice of MR but the metaphors are primarily 7th grade boyish. I understand the motivation, on a good day MR is abhorrent, just commenting on the execution.

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Kris Jackson's avatar

I disagree entirely. If we are not enraged, we should at least be nauseated and absolutely sickened by what’s happening around us. Be grossed out! It’s warranted. We should all be sick to our stomachs!

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

A pusillanimous putz.

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Bob Follansbee's avatar

That is a whole fun-bag of similes and metaphors and other clever comparative constructions about Li'l Marco. Most excellent!

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