Rubio follows the path of Musk in condemning German government opposition to a far-right group that has been investigated and shown to use antisemitic language and has publicly used slogans from a dark, unspeakable German period that occurred approximately 70-80 years ago. It's fun to see members of the Trump Administration show their true colors as they support global vileness. Oh, how low you've fallen, Marco. A remarkable exchange played out on X on Friday as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the government of key ally Germany of “tyranny in disguise” for designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist entity. In a direct reply on X more than three hours later, the German Foreign Office pushed back. “This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law,” the account posted. “It is independent courts that will have the final say.” “We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped,” the foreign office wrote. Rubio’s post was not the first time a high-level Trump official has spoken out in support of the far-right party, whose leaders have engaged in anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and xenophobic rhetoric, including calling for the mass expulsion of immigrants. One of its key politicians, Björn Höcke, was convicted in 2024 after breaking German laws against uttering Nazi slogans in public. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/marco-rubio-germany-foreign-ministry-spat
It would be one thing if MAGA had a history of being pro-free speech, but ask Disney, we know that isn't the case. So this is basically just supporting national socialists german workers. Good for them. Enjoy that
I had thought maybe little Marco would be the sane one in the room. But the Secretary of State calling out an ally, Germany nonetheless, on X for criticizing far right parties? id expect dumb shit like this from JD Vance but not Rubio. Clearly he wants to establish his bonafides among the MAGA set.
Not a new idea. The Founding Fathers who wrote the US Constitution were against political parties although they obviously never tried to ban them. The Founding Fathers Feared Political Factions Would Tear the Nation Apart Today, it may seem impossible to imagine the U.S. government without its two leading political parties, Democrats and Republicans. But in 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to hash out the foundations of their new government, they entirely omitted political parties from the new nation’s founding document. This was no accident. The framers of the new Constitution desperately wanted to avoid the divisions that had ripped England apart in the bloody civil wars of the 17th century. Many of them saw parties—or “factions,” as they called them—as corrupt relics of the monarchical British system that they wanted to discard in favor of a truly democratic government.
