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Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep.

Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

Rubio went from calling Trump a con man and the biggest threat to America to full bootlicker mode the second he saw which way the wind was blowing.

Principles out the window, spine removed, just another guy desperate for relevance in the MAGA court

Sophie Ristelhueber. Les Barricades mystérieuses, 1995, artist’s book, excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760–1767) by Laurence Sterne. via

To understand a man’s character, one would only need to take a chair and silently go sit in front of him as one would before a glass hive, in order to contemplate his soul laid bare; at leisure one would observe all his movements, his mechanisms, the birth and transformations of his whims; one would see it living freely, frolicking, venturing out, following its caprices, and after having also noted the more solemn attitudes that necessarily follow such frolics, adventures, etc., it would suffice to take one’s pen and ink and set down on paper strictly what one had seen, under oath.

#i love literature from hundreds of years ago #and what a treat this was back in the day #Tristram Shandy #Laurence Sterne #lit #have a go at it after work #witty and still in print after three centuries #highly recommend #under oath

bashing my head against the wall bc i just remembered spock defended kirk on trial in Court Martial by comparing his character of righteousness, forthrightness, and goodness to an immutable law of nature to be trusted in such as the concept of gravity in physics 🫠