7 things Marco Rubio should be more worried about than the 'F word'

Seriously. Shut up, Marco.
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Marcus Gilmer
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7 things Marco Rubio should be more worried about than the 'F word'
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For fuck's sake.

We're not even 24 hours removed from the latest mass shooting in the U.S. where a man stormed a newsroom in Maryland and killed five people in cold blood, and Sen. Marco Rubio is more concerned about a naughty word used in a news report.

During an emotional interview with CNN, Capital Gazette reporter Selene San Felice -- who was in the newsroom when the shooting happened and who saw her colleagues get killed -- told Anderson Cooper on the subject of "thoughts and prayers": "I'm going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers, because it's our whole lives have been shattered. And so thanks for your prayers, but I couldn't give a fuck about them if there's nothing else." 


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On Friday morning, Rubio offered the following tweet:

Rubio, who was perfectly okay making dick jokes about Trump on the 2016 campaign trail, offered this social critique, but hasn't tweeted anything about the shooting.

It's a fucked up sense of priority by Rubio and Twitter users called him on it.

In case you need a little help, Marco, here are seven things you should be more worried about than whether or not someone said the word "fuck" in a news report.

1. Thursday's shooting, which was yet another mass shooting in the United States in 2018. In fact, it was the eleventh mass shooting just this week. Add newsrooms to movie theaters, restaurants, city parks, and schools as places where we have to look out for potential gunmen.

2. Fixing the current status of immigration in this country, which left children in cages and separated from their parents.

3. Climate change and its irrefutable science that will directly affect Rubio's state of Florida.

4. The overwhelming number of families who are classified as being impoverished in Rubio's state of Florida.

5. The state of Florida's role in helping kickstart the current opioid epidemic.

6. The constant stream of violent rhetoric directed at journalists (in addition to the general violent rhetoric) coming straight from the White House.

7. Just about anything else.

Get the fuck on it, Marco.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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