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[UberCougars]

Rubio landed, had a cup of coffee and left with another win before lunch. (For those of you still locked in an intellectual struggle with downloading the X app and can’t read this, let me know. I’m here to help!)

 

[Coug90]

Rubio landed, had a cup of coffee and left with another win before lunch. (For those of you still locked in an intellectual struggle with downloading the X app and can’t read this, let me know. I’m here to help!)

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I’m sure it’s just this easy. When has Marco Rubio ever been full of shit in his life?!

Thank god for Benny Johnson. He must be working on like his 9th or 10th Murrow award by now for his journalistic excellence right?!

 

[UberCougars]

Glad to hear that wasn’t really Panama’s president surrendering on live TV the day Sec of State arrived to educate him.

Perhaps Rubio was never there at all! Ever think of that?

 

[Coug90]

Glad to hear that wasn’t really Panama’s president surrendering on live TV the day Sec of State arrived to educate him.

Perhaps Rubio was never there at all! Ever think of that?

😂. Trump already peed down his leg on Mexico. This is such a giant shitshow, I’m glad for you that you are blissfully ignorant to it all.

 

[Flatlandcoug]

Rubio landed, had a cup of coffee and left with another win before lunch. (For those of you still locked in an intellectual struggle with downloading the X app and can’t read this, let me know. I’m here to help!)

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So....I spent two minutes researching what actually happened over the weekend. A few things...

1. US Navy ships will no longer be charged for passage through the canal. This is a good thing and congrats to Trump (and Rubio?) for getting this done. I'm actually surprised that was even a thing.
2. Panama has agreed to not renew its memorandum of understanding on the 2017 "Belt and Road" initiative. This feels more like a political win that doesn't mean anything.
3. Trump and Rubio are focusing on the fact that ports on either side of the canal are operated by a Chinese company. However, Panama (and China) say that the ports have nothing to do with the operation of the canal itself. The whole obsession with those ports has more of a feel of jealousy than any threat to operations of the canal.

There's a lot of posturing and it's a good thing that our Navy ships will not get free passage, but other than that...this feels like a lot of yelling about things. We gave the canal back to Panama decades ago and unless we are ready to admit that Russia has a right to subjugate Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and all of the 'stans, we should quit talking about using military force on something that hasn't really been that big of an issue. When actions by our leaders mirror those of the leaders of countries that are widely consider to be evil....we should be questioning if those actions should be taken.

There is a lot of penis wagging and peacocking going on right now in the White House and it's unbecoming for so many people to embrace it. It is a good thing that Panama has apparently agreed to allow our Navy ships to pass through free of charge but one has to wonder if Trump needs to be a big giant prick about everything to get that one real concession.