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highplainsdem

(62,228 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:41 PM Mar 3

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

hatrack

(64,915 posts)
2. What, fly in their Action News Choppers a la Saigon 1975?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:47 PM
Mar 3

Set up charter flights?

Did anyone think this through beforehand? Anyone at all?

Crunchy Frog

(28,280 posts)
23. Thinking is anathema to that bunch. Trump believes that he just has to issue and order and
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 09:46 PM
Mar 3

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

(23,014 posts)
3. Do they ever have a plan?.....................
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:48 PM
Mar 3

except shithole and comrades stealing and deceiving.

Johonny

(26,203 posts)
8. Well, Trump 1.0 planned the Afghanistan pull out too
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:55 PM
Mar 3

So everyone should have expected a cluster-fuck.

Ilsa

(64,386 posts)
9. OMFG! And I don't want to see them complaining about
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:06 PM
Mar 3

the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 ever again.

delisen

(7,377 posts)
11. Democrats Fault-they made running government look so easy
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:27 PM
Mar 3

that any fool thought they could do it.

delisen

(7,377 posts)
18. Rubio, have you asked the cabinet billionaires to rescue Americans with a patriotic airlift?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:55 PM
Mar 3

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

(4,413 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, 08:04 PM
Mar 3

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

Crunchy Frog

(28,280 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, 09:42 PM
Mar 3

Many of them with American and European made components.

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