‘The Child Will Be Insolent Toward the Elder’

Senator Marco Rubio has been standing up for the NRA and opposing the Parkland, Florida student survivors in the nearly five weeks since the school mass shooting. Rubio was repeatedly booed last month at a widely-watched CNN town hall. He refused to say he will stop accepting NRA donations, saying the gun lobby supports his “agenda.”

Days later he took to Twitter to defend assault weapons, claiming they “are not rapid fire.” The NRA has spent at least $3 million on Rubio’s campaigns.

At the end of February, two weeks after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre, a new poll found Rubio’s popularity had sunk to its lowest level since becoming a U.S. Senator.

“With apparently nothing to lose, Rubio slammed teenagers in a tweet,” The Week noted:

The debate after #Parkland reminds us We The People don’t really like each other very much.We smear those who refuse to agree with us.We claim a Judea-Christian heritage but celebrate arrogance & boasting. & worst of all we have infected the next generation with the same disease – Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 28, 2018

The Florida Republican Senator is doing it again, this time turning to religion to support his attack. Rubio Monday morning tweeted a Bible verse, Isaiah 3:4-5, to go after the students.

I will place boys as their princes; the fickle will govern them & the people will oppress one another, yes, each one the neighbor. The child will be insolent toward the elder & the base toward the honorable. Isaiah 3:4-5 – Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 19, 2018

“The child will be insolent toward the elder,” is the part that was especially telling, as many on social media noticed, angrily:

Nothing is quite as sad as Marco Rubio using Bible verses to subtweet politically-energized teens. https://t.co/NgnZoNWsRN – Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 19, 2018

Yeah, we see what you’re doing and it’s gross af. We love & respect the students of @NeverAgainMSD @cameron_kasky @Emma4Change @davidhogg111 @delaneytarr more than your hibbity jibbity agitprop religio-speak. Your base is anything but “honorable” #Mr3303355 #NRAWhore #NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/R8OidOtGKt – Lisa Blames Gun Deaths On The NRA & @marcorubio✊🍺 (@crafty_lisafl) March 19, 2018

The child will be shot multiple times by an AR-15 and be far braver than the politician who receives money from the NRA. https://t.co/i1YSnPZQjb – lawprofblawg (@lawprofblawg) March 19, 2018

“When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2 Which is why the people are rejoicing about @Emma4Change and not so much about you. – lawprofblawg (@lawprofblawg) March 19, 2018

The kids are our future. Stop writing them off and listen. – Adam England (@aengland818) March 19, 2018

Marco, do your job which is not sermonizing. – southernrose76#BoycottNRA (@barbara_bodie) March 19, 2018

Even his supporters are unhappy: