RE: social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/11

Think this through.

Marco is walking around, allowing himself to be photographed, wearing shoes that are two sizes too big.

He can afford to buy those shoes in the correct size and save his boss and himself the embarrassment.

But Rubio suspects, fears, knows in his black tiny heart, that gave him shoes two sizes too big on purpose, in order publicly to humiliate him, in order to force him to broadcast his blind self-annihilating loyalty before all the world. It is literally The Emperor Has No Clothes, except with the humiliation transfered to the courtiers.

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