Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from President Donald Trump as she criticized what she called “unlawful” executive overreach and sweeping federal cuts.

  • @[email protected]
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    08 days ago

    Neat. Unfortunately, my tiny violin was repossessed.

    Fuck these people. She supported this , and now she’s going to pretend to have feelings. No, you don’t get to do that. We remember.

  • Blemmyes
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    09 days ago

    I mean I get it, because I’m also scared of Donny. But at the same time… It kinda is someone’s job to stand up to him, no?

  • lemmyng
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    09 days ago

    “We are afraid”, they say while wiping their tears away with $100 bills.

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    9 days ago

    You’re scared? However scared you are is nothing compared to the people you are supposed to be representing. And if they can start making a stand against this you have no fucking excuse for your inaction.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    09 days ago

    They’re scared of the wrong thing.

    We need to show them what they should really be afraid of.

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    09 days ago

    Afraid of what? He will call you a bad name. Oh please, you need to grow a spine or get out of politics.

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    09 days ago

    As bad as things are, it’s cathartic to watch the old guard, bourbon sipping Republican party that originally weaponized misinformation to further the agenda of big corpo (faux news since they existed: “Herp derp climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books”) realize that though their long in motion coup worked, they lost control of it in 2015 when King confidence scheme scam artist stole their grift out from under them by saying the dogwhistles they used to string their racist base along out loud with a dumb little dance.

    Its not helpful, but knowing Mitch McConnell and John Roberts know they sold out their entire society’s future not even for their benefit or the benefit of the right small room of classy old money bigots, but for some crass asshole that’s as belligerent and willfully ignorant as their sucker voting base to take the reigns of post democracy machiavelian power they so carefully curated since the 70s as they watch powerlessly, and IN FEAR no less?

    Poetry.

    🎻🎻🎻

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    09 days ago

    5-10 Republicans, that’s all it would take to impeach him in the house, and less required to remove in the senate. Clearly he can ignore most lawful orders, but if Congress came together to stop him, I’d argue that would be the end of him, no matter how hard he wants to fight.