Thread by @MarkLeuchter

@marcorubio Every verse you quote can be countered by others. "Do not rejoice when your enemies fall" is countered by Exod 15:1-18, a song of rejoice at the defeat of Egypt at the Red Sea. Vomiting out a random verse is a meaningless posture, a sign of fake, performative faith. 1/

@marcorubio But let's look at what you've actually quoted. The verse says not to rejoice in the fall of your enemy...not because it's a matter of compassion or respect, but only because God might get mad at you and actually empower your enemy. 2/

@marcorubio So not rejoicing in your enemy's failure isn't a matter of morality, or values, it's simply a ritual act to ensure that your enemy stays down and you stay triumphant. There's nothing noble or decent about this refrain from rejoicing. It's strictly transactional. 3/

@marcorubio And that's really par for the course with you. When you were running in 2016 you trotted out soaring, faux-inspirational rhetoric (remember your bullshit line about "a new American century"?). You clearly didn't believe in that. How do we know? 4/

@marcorubio Because as soon as Trump started giving you a public atomic wedgie, you pivoted and tried to get down in the dirt with him. The soaring rhetoric didn't get you what you wanted, so you did a 180 to try to fight dirty. And you failed, miserably. 5/

@marcorubio Trump drove you into the ground with the "Little Marco" rhetoric, and you flailed like a dying fish on the dry ground. I despise Trump for his grotesque, toxic worldview, but you're even worse. Because you showed early on that you don't actually BELIEVE in anything. 6/

@marcorubio It's ALL transactional with you. The soaring rhetoric. The dirty-fighting posture. And then 4 years of you sucking Trump's balls on demand. All you wanted was a seat at the table, all you got were table scraps thrown to the floor, and you ate them up hungrily. 7/

@marcorubio So here you are now, tweeting Bible verses over and over, without a thought about what they mean, trying to bathe yourself in the protective power of Scripture. It's still transactional. You're doing what you've always done, for the reasons you've always done it. 8/

@marcorubio You cleave to an attempt to present yourself as a man of deep faith, but you are anything other that a servant of The Lord. You use these verses to serve YOU. You do to these words what you have done to this country and its voters. 9/

@marcorubio But these words existed long before meager, selfish, corrupt cowards like you tried to use them as political currency. And they will survive long after you're gone from the office you hold. And I can assure you -- millions of Americans WILL rejoice when that happens. 10/10