Marco Rubio calls employment numbers 'fake'. Dark Brandon replies.

[Norbert]

Ain't it the truth.

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

1. don't EVEN try to tell me Joe has lost his marbles

HE GETS IT

[liberalla]

2. Yep! Big thumbs up!!

I'm going to miss him. I know he'll still be active in other ways, but YKWIM...

[LoisB]

3. What has Marco ever done to create ANY job other than his own?

[peppertree]

4. What's more, the IDEA wasn't even Little Narco's own

I know where he probably got it:

In the 2010s, he was the congressional point-man for the neo-con effort to turn back the Latin America "pink tide" - the wave of progressive (but not far-left) governments that had taken office across the region on or after 2003.

Most had taken office in the wake of socio-economic and foreign debt calamities left over from the RW era in the region (1989-2003, approximately). And to the neo-cons' chagrin, most had presided over a decade of strong growth - which, for once, percolated down to the majority.

So what's a neo-con to do? They came with the "idea" of simply using local toadies (in Latin RW cable news, mainly) to convince voters not to believe their lyin' eyes.

"It's all a mirage!" the refrain went. "And the numbers are (drumroll...) fake!"

("besides" - they'd dog whistle to white voters - "who do those people think they are, thinking they can afford things!" )

So all Little Narco's doing simply importing the tactic stateside. Because it's all they know how to do: distract, delude and deflect.

[LoisB]

5. Thank you. I did not know this or didn't pay attention to it then.

[peppertree]

8. You're welcome. And yes - he kept his involvement on the down-low.

Like other things from his past...

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rubios-childhood-friend-tied-to-miamis-most-infamous-gay-porn-case-8203133

[LoisB]

9. Wow!

[JI7]

6. Why doesn't the media ask Rubio and others to show why it's fake

and present evidence available and put them on the spot ?

[hay rick]

7. Post-fact-checking media...