Warped

Elise Stefanik, for whom "whole civilization" means "regime":

Heated clash erupts on CNN as Jake Tapper presses Rep. Elise Stefanik over President Trump’s rhetoric toward Iran

Tapper pushes: “A president threatening to wipe out an entire civilization… you’re applying two different standards”

Stefanik fires back: “He is targeting the… pic.twitter.com/4wzoYHun83

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) April 19, 2026

What part of "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" does former Representative Elise Stefanik not understand? Donald posted on Untruth Social on April 5

A whole cvilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?  We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

What we found out was, praise be to God, that TACO. Trump backed down, and so Iran- and thereafter, possibly the entire Middle East- was not wiped out

During the interview CNN's Tapper had with Stefanik on CNN's State of the Union on April 19, the latter claimed that President Trump

is targeting the Iranian terrorist regime. Everyone seems to understand that Jake, except for CNN.

And what did it do? It brought the Iranians to the table, delivering a cease-fire, and, frankly, bringing this terrorist regime to its knees. It has been very important for us to address, frankly, this conflict that has been going on for decades, the terrorist regime that has not only hijacked the Strait of Hormuz, but has been the number one state sponsor of terror.

After Trump's threat, Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, which temporarily relieved the nation of bombardment. On April 10, Vice President Vance negotiated with the Iranians for one day, which came to no avail.  In light of the ceasefire, Tehran was to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but then reneged when it contended that the continuation of Israeli military operations in Lebanon violated terms of the agreement. 

Responding to the breakdown of talks, the US military began a blockade of Iran's ports on April 13, prompting Tehran to threaten to retaliate against the ports of its Gulf neighbors. Israel and Lebanon then agreed to a ceasefire and Iran backed down. But on April 20, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf of Iran "issued a sharp rebutall to US President Donald Trump, laying out a multi-point counter that challenges"  several claims made by the American President. And Ghalibaf announced that the Strait wouldn't remain open and "Iranian authorization" would be required to sail through it.

Stefanik made her "brought the Iranians to the table" boast one day prior to that. However, negotiations currently are suspended, the Iranians aren't at "the table," and the notion that "this terrorist regime (has been brought) to its knees" is delusional, or would be if she believed it. That is, unless "brought to its knees" means "radicalized and emboldened."

But that is nothing compared to Stefanik's obscene perspective on genocide.  Jake Tapper asked the ex-congresswoman repeatedly about the President's threat to wipe out Iranian civilization. And, with slight wording change, each time her response was the same:

- He was focusing on the Iranian regime.

- And it's very important to note that the- I'm talking he was focused on the Iranian terrorist regime.

-But that's- Jake, you can ask this question but the reality is it was targeted toward the Iranian terrorist regime.

-President Trump was not calling for genocide. Shame on CNN for saying that.

Stefanik argued "if you want to compare the President of the United States to the university presidents who failed to call for the condemnation of calling for the genocide of Jews, that's on you, Jake."  This was worse than classic bothsiderism or moral equivalence. She strongly implied that statements from the "from the river to the sea" students and college presidents who did not squelch their anti-semitic speech were worse, and more significant, than President Trump's threat against the Iranian people.

Those words included "a whole civilization will die tonight." Then as if to make sure that everyone understood, Donald added "never to be brought back," making crystal-clear his wet dream of destroying an entire people. The civilization would be unrecognizable and irretrievable, victim of unparalleled death, destruction, and horror. The USA instantly would have become an international pariah and a society which would forever be placed alongside Nazi Germany in the history books.  A good thing, according to Elise Stefanik.

 

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Pitiful Little Marco

Pathetic, just pathetic.

It was on March 3, 2016 in Detroit when

Donald Trump opened the GOP debate here by boasting about the size of his genitals. He responded to recent comments from Marco Rubio in which the Florida senator joked about the size of Trump’s hands and said “you know what they say about men with small hands.”

On the debate stage, Trump stretched his hands out for the audience to see – then insisted the suggestion that “something else must be small” was false.

“I guarantee you there’s no problem,” Trump said to howls from the audience at the Fox debate.

Trump twice taunted his rival with "Don't worry about it, Little Marco." No problem, though, because Rubio got back at actor Trump later in the debate. He knew how to ridicule Trump and cut him down to size. The senator called him "Big Donald." Way to cut him down to size, Marco!

                

But that was before Rubio endorsed Trump a few months later, prior to his rapid and radical "transformation from "Never Trump' to 'Forever Trump.'" And now the little man has hit a new low:

Marco Rubio on Jon Karl being stunned when Rubio said he wants to be Trump's VP: "At the end of the day, I think the view is that the president doesn't even deserve to have a vice president." pic.twitter.com/X7B4vZBB3f

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2024

Oh, the humiliation. Rubio does have the advantage of being Latino and Trump hopes to be able to expand the inroads which polls indicate he has made with that demographic. However, he also is Cuban-America, and that brings into question his ability to appeal to Puerto Ricans in New York or more importantly, Mexican-Americans in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and North Carolina. Presumably, Rubio would help marginally in Florida but that has become a reasonably safe state for a GOP presidential nominee. 

Moreover, Article II, Section 1 of the USA Constitution reads "The electors hall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves." 

That would raise the possibility of four years of President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris. Yet as entertaining as that would be, it wouldn't play out that way. Although a resident of Texas upon election as V.P. in 2000, Dick Cheney claimed to live in Wyoming, where he had previously resided and served as a U.S. Senator. And that was that. In the analogous situation, Trump simply would insist that he resides in New York, New York and that would be that.

Nonetheless, the nominee is about as likely to peg Rubio as his running mate as he is, say, Elizabeth Warren. Donald Trump needs a woman to round out the ticket, and there are several, such as Kristi Noem and Elise Stefanik, who would promise whatever necessary to do as requested. Then there are Nancy Mace, who might not, and Nikki Haley, who wouldn't, but would credibly remind everyone that a vote for Joe Biden as President is a vote for President Kamala Harris.

The ads touting Biden-Harris or ridiculing Trump-Rubio would practically write themselves- better yet, the V.P. nominee could write the ads. About a week before the "Little Marco" debate, Rubio had asserted "We cannot allow the conservative movement to be taken over by a con artist because the stakes are too high. Friends do not let friends vote for con artists," asserted the Florida senator about a week before he was dubbed "Little Marco." "Even Marco Rubio endorses Biden-Harris" would have a nice ring to it.

It's very unlikely that Trump would tap- uh, er, choose-  Nikki Haley because he'd have to worry every time he turned his back on her. However, she, Mace, Noem, and Stefanik are only a few of the Republican women who would jump at the chance to be on the ticket, and would alleviate slightly the (accurate) image of Trump as a narrow-minded, misogynistic bigot.

They'd all be very bad in their own way. However, no matter what the lucky lady is expected to do as running mate, it will be hard for her to define pathetic as thoroughly as has Marco Rubio.

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