# Marco Rubio should be Barbecued **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 12, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913 "2026-11-12T16:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/1 "2026-11-12T16:09:33Z")
Marco Rubio is likely to become the 48th President of the United States, so I will mention right now that I don’t like him. The R’s in the House voted 211-to-1 not to proceed with the impeachment of the evil idiot Hegseth, so it’s hard to admire any of that party (excepting Massie, the sole Nay vote by a Repub) but Rubio is particularly disgusting. Recall that his intellectual contribution to the big R debate in 2016 was to focus attention to the size of Trump’s hands. During the Biden Adminitration, Rubio thought the best use of his time was to demand an investigaton into Cabinet Secretary Buttigieg’s taxpayer-paid travel expenses (less than $60,000). > [@Marco Rubio](#): > > American taxpayers deserve assurances that their tax dollars are not wasted by the government’s highest officials. ( [Transportation Dept. watchdog to audit Buttigieg's air travel](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/transportation-dept-watchdog-audit-buttigiegs-air-travel-rcna72598) ) I suppose that if Rubio thought that recovering part of this $60,000 was the best use of his power as a then-U.S. Senator, he deserves pity. But the stunt has backfired and proven Rubio to be a despicable hypocrite. Rubio, now a Cabinet Secretary himself, has forced the taxpayers to pay, not $60k. not $80k, not even $100k) **but over $1.2 Million** for personal travel, mostly to Gainsville, Florida where his son Anthony plays for the Gators, an NCAA football team. Perhaps the proud father could be forgiven if Anthony was a star athlete.but he’s a 3rd-stringer who has appeared at all in only 4 games over the past four years. In most of the games Rubio attended at great taxpayer expense, his son did not appear at all. Anthony had one (1) touchdown, but that was back in 2024. Rubio sits next to Trump in many many photogrsphs, praising his great Führer. He is a strong supporter of foolish wars, and seems proud to be called the “Viceroy of Venezuela.” The probability that this disgusting hypocrite will be the next POTUS makes me want to barf. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/2 "2026-11-12T16:12:17Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > Marco Rubio is likely to become the 48th President of the United States I think you’re very wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/3 "2026-11-12T16:13:08Z")
Just so you know, my favorite sauce is, “Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit Barbecue Sauce”. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/4 "2026-11-12T16:13:44Z")
I agree that it seems unlikely that Marco Rubio will win the election. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/5 "2026-11-12T16:17:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I agree that it seems unlikely that Marco Rubio will win the election . I think so too. However, I would have bet quite a bit in 2016 that Trump would never beat Hillary Clinton. I’m not predicting a Rubio win. I don’t think he’s popular with anyone. But, it wouldn’t be the biggest electoral surprise of my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/6 "2026-11-12T16:17:50Z")
No matter which direction his career takes, he’ll have some _awfully_ big shoes to fill: [![](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/99e/402/508bdb8ed82fe5d1c215225794dd9f3889-marco-rubio-big-shoes-lede.rhorizontal.w700.jpg) ](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/99e/402/508bdb8ed82fe5d1c215225794dd9f3889-marco-rubio-big-shoes-lede.rhorizontal.w700.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/7 "2026-11-12T16:18:36Z")
Yeah, there’s zero chance he’s president. His high-water mark already was reached and is receding. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/8 "2026-11-12T16:22:16Z")
I think Trump’s victory in 2016 came as a surprise to _everyone_, including Trump himself. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/9 "2026-11-12T16:51:43Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Just so you know, my favorite sauce is, “Famous Dave’s Devil’s Spit Barbecue Sauce”. 😈 You would never waste any of that stuff on gross low-quality meat like Marco Rubio, though. Serve him with generic-brand ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/10 "2026-11-12T18:22:33Z")
I’d agree, as long as you mean slow smoked. Otherwise he’d come out all chewy and stringy. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/11 "2026-11-12T18:41:31Z")
Yep. He’s a cheap, low quality piece of meat. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/12 "2026-11-12T18:56:26Z")
Remember back in 2016, when Rubio had an ounce or two of integrity? > [@](#): > > Hours after locking horns with Donald Trump at CNN’s Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio continued to batter the GOP presidential front-runner, repeatedly calling him a “con artist” and saying he is “wholly unprepared to be president of the United States.” > > “This is the most important government job on the planet. And we’re about to turn over the conservative movement to a person that has no ideas of any substance on the important issues,” Rubio said in an interview Friday on “CBS This Morning.” > > “The nuclear codes of the United States – to an erratic individual – and the conservative movement – to someone who has spent a career sticking it to working people,” he added. > **[Marco Rubio: Not going to turn over GOP to ‘con artist’ Donald Trump | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/marco-rubio-donald-trump-morning-show-attacks)** > > Hours after locking horns with Donald Trump at CNN’s Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio continued to batter the GOP presidential front-runner, repeatedly calling him a “con artist” and saying he is “wholly unprepared to be president of the... Having now made a name for himself as a Trump groveler\* and MAGA sellout, Little Marco’s star is fading. \*my favorite photo of Rubio is the one where he’s uncomfortably sporting the badly-fitting Florsheim shoes that Donald reportedly bought for his Cabinet members, and which they were afraid not to wear, spawning dozens of Rubio memes where he’s wearing silly things. 😆 [![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/4oNAOpsaQ7JyxQVH3jZ8Ww--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkzNztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_republic_521/3ebff92ca89b075eb6ed93b45f350bd5) ](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/4oNAOpsaQ7JyxQVH3jZ8Ww--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkzNztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_republic_521/3ebff92ca89b075eb6ed93b45f350bd5) ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/13 "2026-11-12T20:11:21Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > agree that it seems unlikely that Marco Rubio will win the election. Almost all of us hope that a Democrat wins, but the Ds are adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I think that the GOP front-runner Vance is acutely NON-charismatic. He has little to show so far for his stint as VP except unreciprocated loyalty. Kalshi prediction market shows Rubio as #2 likeliest for the GOP nomination and having a 54% chance to win the general if nominated, while Vance (#1) has only a 39% chance, and DeSantis 36%. Polymarket numbers are quite similar, with the nominee-to-winner chances at 50%, 38% and 40% for Rubio, Vance, DeSantis. Either of the two D front-runners would be the youngest Potus ever elected if they win in '28; and Vance would be 2nd-youngest ever. Thus among the four likeliest possibilities only Rubio (now 55) would present as a mature experienced man. I hope that Vance – an easy-to-beat laughingstock – is the nominee. Rubio may be the Rs’ best hope and they’re likely to figure that out. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/14 "2026-11-12T20:19:48Z")
How did those prediction markets do in terms of projecting the results of the election this month? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/15 "2026-11-12T20:49:20Z")
Barbecueing him would put him in the tradition of **[St. Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence#Martyrdom)**, that may be too much of a honor for him. Choose some other form of torture, please. And no, of course I am not eating _that_. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/16 "2026-11-12T20:49:21Z")
Marco has a better chance of being “elected” as President of Venezuela. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/17 "2026-11-12T21:35:39Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > Marco Rubio is likely to become the 48th President of the United States, so I will mention right now that I don’t like him. Maybe, just **maybe** a tiny bit more likely than myself, but I wouldn’t be sure about that. > [@Velocity](#): > > His high-water mark already was reached and is receding. ISWYDT. [![](https://www.advocate.com/media-library/marco-rubio-sipping-watter-on-live-tv.jpg?id=60341262&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=155%2C0%2C156%2C0) ](https://www.advocate.com/media-library/marco-rubio-sipping-watter-on-live-tv.jpg?id=60341262&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=155%2C0%2C156%2C0) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/18 "2026-11-12T21:59:48Z")
In light of James Comey being indicted for posting a pic of sea shells, this thread title strikes me as a very bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/19 "2026-11-12T22:11:43Z")
Hopefully Gordon doesn’t do anything to _personally_ irritate Orange Julius Caesar. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913/20 "2026-11-12T22:13:42Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > How did those prediction markets do in terms of projecting the results of the election this month? [Supposedly they did well](https://www.wgcu.org/elections/2026-11-10/prediction-markets-gambled-on-political-bets-for-the-general-election-and-found-it-payed-off), with a few glaring exceptions (both Polymarket and Kalshi had Darline Graham winning the S. Carolina Senate race, Greg Abbott taking the Texas Governor’s contest, and the Republican winning the Senate seat from Mississippi). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-should-be-barbecued/1034913.md?page=2)