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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aw yeah. That's the stuff.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Trumps face if you flattened it with a steamroller.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I still think it's a brave move trying to blend in with the couch in the same room as JD Vance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

~~in the same room~~ on the same couch as JD Vance.

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Based on his imposter act later in which he asked other people for thanks, I think he’s just Copy of JD, but dumber

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it’s like the copy of the copy from multiplicity.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone should start using tiny red mats like you'd see in a kitchen or bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

With “Gnome Sweet Gnome” on it.

Then we start calling Rubio Gnome of State and variations. Just mock him mercilessly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i like gnomes tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

And put something slick under it so they slip

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

Well played, Canada!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

dude i gotta get of those for when my MIL visits

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I like that it leads directly into a puddle.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Looks like it leads right into a puddle too.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Roll out the red bath towel. He's not important enough for the beach towel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

A hand towel that a dog with an enlarged prostate pissed on.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

Proportional for Little Marco

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

How about the door mat that says go away?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this abnormal? Are there images of other people getting normal-sized red carpets?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If I had to guess, I'd say that others wouldn't have gotten a red carpet at all. It doesn't exactly serve a function, and I've never heard of anyone receiving one.

After looking it up, though, it appears that "Heads of State" use them on "ceremonial and formal occasions". Wiki link here.

Edit: Barack Obama was photographed with a large red carpet going down the length of Air Force One's stairs. The one for Rubio is miniscule in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's sized proportionally to the hand size of the commander in chief at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or some other body part...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well, then it should just be a very small mushroom-shaped carpet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The details on that picture say that it's at Andrews Air Force Base, so it's the US military providing the US president with a red carpet / staircase.

Alamy has a bunch of photos of John Kerry travelling by airplane and while sometimes there's a red carpet or a red staircase, other times there's nothing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

What's the problem, it seems to be appropriately sized for Little Marco

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

this is the craziest timeline

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This admin is trying to destroy comedy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Should have stayed in Never-Never-Land, Rubio!