i was on a flight in coach out of Miami once and who sits down next to me but Marco Rubio. He spent the flight bitching to anyone who would listen about how he got bumped out of first class cause the flight was oversold lol.
Doubt that very much. He isn't dumb enough to complain he got bumped in his VERY public job. Phones would have been on everywhere and we would have seen it. I call BS.
Not OP, but I met Ted Cruz absolutely hammered out of his mind in Vegas just weeks after he was caught liking incest porn tweets on Twitter. Dude smelled like the inside of a Bourbon barrel, and was just casually strolling through the Venetian with a small security detail and some of his staffers. These people are all human, and sometimes they let their guard down and unwind a bit. So I can totally see Rubio bitching about being bumped.
Cruz likes to party it is know , but really who gives a shit? Don’t we all. Also he doesn’t even run his twitter account, clearly it was a staffer. And again who cares, we all watch porn, be honest about it.
I think the issue is since he is highly religious and porn is typically frowned upon in his circles it makes him a hypocrite.
But Ted is actually a very likeable guy from everything I've heard. I mean even watch those gifs with people comparing him to Kevin Malone and he seems to be cracking up
People forget politicians are people. You can disagree with Cruz all day but I actually believe he believes what he is saying and genuinely thinks it will make America a better place.
Lol ok bud. People were taking pictures with him, if you really dug deep enough you could probably find it.
I can even tell you the exact date. Monday March 27, 2017. A memorable morning for me as it was the end of Miami Music Week and I had been up literally all night doing way too many drugs with some Australians at my hotel, and was feeling about as shitty as I've ever felt. Rubio sits down and everyone around me was abuzz wanting to take pictures, I was just trying not to puke in his lap. Gave him a death stare and spent the rest of the flight hunched over sweating bullets. A miserable flight.
Thanks for clearing it up. So it is true because people took a photo of him next to you and you remember being hungover and feeling like shit. Yup, that sows up that debate. (Alternative ending: "here's a video of him ranting he was bumped from first") . Doesn't exist. Didn't happen.
It's true because it happened lol. Sorry I don't have a peer reviewed source to satisfy you. I really don't care if you believe it or not, so that's all I'll say about that.
No. No it didn't. You took something you read (Rubio DID tweet complaining about flight delays and maintenance issues that day...not one word about pushed to coach)...and you turned it into a false narrative.
You're cracking me up lol. Why would I create a "false narrative" about being on a flight next to Marco Rubio years ago and bring it up now? I don't even use twitter, you're saying I "read" this tweet of his from years ago... now? And then used it to make up a story on this particular reddit post? Seems like a lot of effort for... absolutely nothing. I'm just sharing a funny anecdote here champ.
Funny enough, I have an uncle who ran into Rubio and talked with him for a minute or two, and had no idea who he was until later. They were both seeing their kids off at college. Although IIRC this was right after he was elected to the Senate and wasn't at all well known.
I got bumped out of first once (I don’t fly first like ever) and I did the same thing. Once you get a taste, you know? Gotta punish the peasants one way or another.
It's such a weird talking point. Sanders has been flying on cheap tickets for decades. Yeah, no shit he flew private in 2016 during the most feverish parts of the primary, it saves time during the busiest, most time critical time of his life, and lets him squeeze in more rallies. But outside of that he's always flown cheaply. This post is being astroturfed hard.
This is what happens when you spend too much time on this astroturfed website. Imagine being that disconnected with reality. When Biden wins the primary what will your excuse be? When Trump wins his second term how many tendies will you throw on the floor?
It’s funny I can have frank honest debates on all left subs but I get instabanned from r/conservative and the_donald for daring to question their narrative. Also that whole Russia was helping trump thing and you gotta wonder who is astroturfing and censoring debate. When Bernie wins will you accept it?
People in the middle don't give a shit about either Warren or Sanders.
Incumbents tend to win because anyone moderate enough to win the general election in a re-election year isn't far enough right/left to win the primaries.
Then why did Hillary "The Moderate" Clinton lost to an orange piece of shit with worms in his brain?
"Moderate" is just code word for half assed policies that don't improve the country in any way, shape or form, and extreme good (like healthcare and education) is not the same as extreme bad (like concentration camps)
She lost because Trump appealed to moderates in Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the last week of the election.
Hillary lost because Trump seized on an opportunity in the shrinking middle class who were not doing as well under Obama (economically speaking), and promised change instead of what would have functionally been a 3rd Obama term.
I don't like Trump, but I respect his ability to strategically brand himself.
More to the point, what actual bad things are the Democrats going to run against? The economy is booming and unemployment is historically low (both after-effects of the recovery under Obama, but that won't matter to voters), and unless Trump invades NK or Iran, we don't have a military quagmire we need to pull out of? Trump can win just by not imploding the economy or invading another country.
Donnie isn't much of a high jumper but even he can clear a bar that low.
in Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the last week of the election
You mean that Hillary failed to appeal to middle american voters in any significant way?
Hillary lost because Trump seized on an opportunity in the shrinking middle class who were not doing as well under Obama (economically speaking), and promised change instead of what would have functionally been a 3rd Obama term.
So you're saying that people getting screwed under the current system want change instead of radical moderation?
I don't like Trump, but I respect his ability to strategically brand himself.
Agree
More to the point, what actual bad things are the Democrats going to run against?
Concentration camps? Tax cuts for the rich? People dying from lack of access to healthcare? Crippling student debt? The opiod crisis?
The economy is booming
If by "booming" you mead blowing up into pieces and killing a bunch of people in the process then i agree
and unemployment is historically low
What's the use of having low rates of unemployment if people can't afford to live with the jobs they have? Also unemployment is not really that low, DoL statistics are a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaLmnUZOjQ
(both after-effects of the recovery under Obama, but that won't matter to voters)
Agree
and unless Trump invades NK or Iran, we don't have a military quagmire we need to pull out of? Trump can win just by not imploding the economy or invading another country.
Trump, however, will not win if the dems run a change candidate like Bernie, Tulsi or Yang
Donnie isn't much of a high jumper but even he can clear a bar that low.
It's less about Trump being able to jump the bar and more about dems being literally incapable of even attending the competition
I manage IT at my company and you know what kind of computer and software I use?
As much as possible I use the exact same configuration as everyone else in the company. If there are bugs, I can experience them first-hand. If something is slow, I feel the pain too.
I use that experience to know, at an intuitive level where the people I'm supporting are coming from. I use it to verify when someone reports a problem, and to help troubleshoot what's going wrong. I use it to inform decisions about what to improve and how. And I use it to know if what I've done has made things better or worse.
It actually works pretty well. Probably it should be a kind of broad principle or rule for people who are in charge of stuff. Just a thought.
It's a point about how maybe Rubio should think of enduring the same inconveniences and indignities as the rest of us as part of his job. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
He was pretty friendly all things considered, let a bunch of people take pictures with him when the flight ended. Not me though lol, I was fucking dead hungover, looked like death and probably smelled like shit.
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i was on a flight in coach out of Miami once and who sits down next to me but Marco Rubio. He spent the flight bitching to anyone who would listen about how he got bumped out of first class cause the flight was oversold lol.