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highplainsdem

(61,377 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:41 PM 15 hrs ago

Marco Rubio pleads with TV networks to help the administration return Americans home who are stranded in the Middle East

Marco Rubio pleads with TV networks to help the administration return Americans home who are stranded in the Middle East

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-03T20:24:29.567Z



Why the hell didn't they have plans for this?

Most incompetent administration ever. And most corrupt.
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Marco Rubio pleads with TV networks to help the administration return Americans home who are stranded in the Middle East (Original Post) highplainsdem 15 hrs ago OP
Well tbh? JustAnotherGen 15 hrs ago #1
What, fly in their Action News Choppers a la Saigon 1975? hatrack 15 hrs ago #2
Thinking is anathema to that bunch. Trump believes that he just has to issue and order and Crunchy Frog 10 hrs ago #23
Do they ever have a plan?..................... Lovie777 15 hrs ago #3
To be fair, they had concepts of a plan. yellowcanine 14 hrs ago #13
They were planning to have Retrograde 14 hrs ago #17
Pathetic Cirsium 15 hrs ago #4
"Since rump won't help, I'm now begging all you people that lick his ass" struggle4progress 15 hrs ago #5
It's like they didn't think this through MustLoveBeagles 14 hrs ago #6
Probably because... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #10
How many people were fired from the State Department Marco? dem4decades 14 hrs ago #7
They just found out what some of those fired people did yellowcanine 14 hrs ago #15
Well, Trump 1.0 planned the Afghanistan pull out too Johonny 14 hrs ago #8
OMFG! And I don't want to see them complaining about Ilsa 14 hrs ago #9
IKR? MustLoveBeagles 14 hrs ago #16
Democrats Fault-they made running government look so easy delisen 14 hrs ago #11
let the republican party pay for this nt msongs 14 hrs ago #12
no need to stampede. the actual likelyhood of being hurt in a localized attack is quite low msongs 14 hrs ago #14
Rubio, have you asked the cabinet billionaires to rescue Americans with a patriotic airlift? delisen 13 hrs ago #18
When do they bring in tree monkey Duffy Hassler 12 hrs ago #19
US embassies to Americans in the Middle East: You're on your own. US Navy to Big Oil: We'll escort your tankers! Efilroft Sul 11 hrs ago #20
On the other hand, there are lots of russians stranded. Getting bombed with Shaheds made by their own country.😂 Crunchy Frog 10 hrs ago #21
JHFC orangecrush 10 hrs ago #22

hatrack

(64,682 posts)
2. What, fly in their Action News Choppers a la Saigon 1975?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:47 PM
15 hrs ago

Set up charter flights?

Did anyone think this through beforehand? Anyone at all?

Crunchy Frog

(28,225 posts)
23. Thinking is anathema to that bunch. Trump believes that he just has to issue and order and
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 08:46 PM
10 hrs ago

everything will happen as he wants. Little Marco probably understands that's not the case, but he knows he'll be sidelined if he says anything.

Main difference between 1.0 and 2.0 is that 1st term he really didn't have a choice but to have career personnel working for him, and they put the brakes on a lot.

Lovie777

(22,629 posts)
3. Do they ever have a plan?.....................
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:48 PM
15 hrs ago

except shithole and comrades stealing and deceiving.

Johonny

(25,960 posts)
8. Well, Trump 1.0 planned the Afghanistan pull out too
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:55 PM
14 hrs ago

So everyone should have expected a cluster-fuck.

Ilsa

(64,197 posts)
9. OMFG! And I don't want to see them complaining about
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:06 PM
14 hrs ago

the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 ever again.

delisen

(7,329 posts)
11. Democrats Fault-they made running government look so easy
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:27 PM
14 hrs ago

that any fool thought they could do it.

msongs

(73,497 posts)
14. no need to stampede. the actual likelyhood of being hurt in a localized attack is quite low
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:37 PM
14 hrs ago

delisen

(7,329 posts)
18. Rubio, have you asked the cabinet billionaires to rescue Americans with a patriotic airlift?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:55 PM
13 hrs ago

Is Elon Musk volunteering to underwrite a massive airlift?

Surely Robert Murdoch is eager to help.


This State Department mess is a clear message that we need a huge billionaire tax.

Efilroft Sul

(4,400 posts)
20. US embassies to Americans in the Middle East: You're on your own. US Navy to Big Oil: We'll escort your tankers!
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 07:04 PM
11 hrs ago

With this administration, it's all about priorities,. And guess what? We're not a priority.

Crunchy Frog

(28,225 posts)
21. On the other hand, there are lots of russians stranded. Getting bombed with Shaheds made by their own country.😂
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 08:42 PM
10 hrs ago

Many of them with American and European made components.

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