• rem26_art
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    Gee if only there was some other way she could express her opposition to the bill. Some kind of voting process…

    • candyman337
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      15012 days ago

      It was a 50/50 vote, if she would have voted no, it would not have passed the Senate

      • @[email protected]
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        1412 days ago

        I wonder if the one downvote is somebody confused that maybe you’re defending her, which is clearly not the case, or if you at some point made a tankie upsetty sphagetti and now they stalk your posts lol.

  • WeirdyBeansAt
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    14012 days ago

    Lisa Murkowski is another useless cunt talking out of both sides of her mouth. The only thing she’s truly afraid of is being primaried.

    • LeadersAtWork
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      Alaska Pop (2024): 740,000

      Now I’m not saying you can fit many monsters in closets and under beds…

      You know what’d be absolutely priceless though?

  • @[email protected]
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    Murkowski’s reluctant “yes” vote underlines the fractures within the GOP over the bill’s $3.3 trillion price tag and its sweeping policy changes.

    No, no it does not. What it underlines is the sure and certain collaboration and capitulation of the GOP to whatever the hell trump wants, guaranteed. Any whining and complaining about the harm the bill will do is strictly performative, nothing but the clapping flippers of barking seals that will ultimately do exactly what they’ve been told.

    • @[email protected]
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      Shit like this and the willingness of the news media to frame it like that is the reason people describe politics as kayfabe. And why they aren’t exactly wrong to believe that.

  • Zerlyna
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    12612 days ago

    Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking donkey raping shiteater of a senator. Am I wrong?

  • @[email protected]
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    One explanation is that they don’t understand just how unpopular the bill is apt to be when it takes effect. Many Republicans rely on party-aligned media for their news, and these sources have mostly cheered the bill while ignoring its downsides. Both chambers of Congress have rushed the bill through with minimal scrutiny, shielding members from exposure to concerns. Even the White House seems unaware of what exactly it’s pressuring Congress to do. Yesterday, when a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the megabill’s proposed tax on wind and solar energy, she appeared totally unfamiliar with the measure and punted the question. (The tax provision was later removed.)

  • @[email protected]
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    1912 days ago

    With the way this bill is moving through the process, I am surprised we have not heard of any democrats slipping in provisions.

    But I guess expecting democrats to do anything resembling opposition is a bit too much to ask for.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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      2112 days ago

      They tried, but any additions or removals required a vote they lost every time. They of course could have used all their interns time making a list of amendments to be voted on, and then space them out for as long as the GOP kept trying to cram this shit through even though nobody is happy with it.

  • @[email protected]
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    6812 days ago

    If only there was something she herself could have done to stop it. Like single-handedly, one act that she could have easily chosen to stop this whole damn thing.

    But alas, there was clearly nothing.

  • @[email protected]
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    3012 days ago

    What the actual fuck.

    Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it’s close.

    • Drusas
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      812 days ago

      She is more centrist than most Republicans, but she’s still afraid of being primaried.

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        I don’t buy it. There a small handful of them like her, and they just trade off who gets to act more centrist, but always leaving enough votes to pass the BS they want to pass. Its a ruse so they can keep winning their seats so people can say, see, she’s better than others.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 days ago

          And on the other side, always just enough dems to thwart any meaningful progress even when they’re given majorities, even “super” that one time, that actually then wasn’t.

  • @[email protected]
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    2011 days ago

    Don’t worry, Senator Collins voted against it so she can show Maine how fucking moderate she is.

    After checking with the party first to make sure they had the votes…

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    I am honestly suicidal over how blithely these ghouls are playing with our health and safety. Every day, I read a new article about how some white dipshit from the fringes of InfoWars and Christian grifting thinks that he knows better than my fucking doctor. I should just start treating my congresspeople like doctors and start mailing samples of my piss and shit to their offices. After all, they’re the ones making my medical decisions.