7d ago

‘We Are All Afraid’: Republican Senator Admits Colleagues Are Terrified of Being Punished for Criticizing Trump

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Murkowski openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from Trump, as she criticized his policies.

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7d ago

‘We Are All Afraid’: Republican Senator Admits Colleagues Are Terrified of Being Punished for Criticizing Trump

www.mediaite.com /tv/we-are-all-afraid-republican-senator-admits-colleagues-are-terrified-of-being-punished-for-criticizing-trump/

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7d ago

‘We are all afraid’: Republican senator admits colleagues are terrified of being punished for criticizing Trump

www.mediaite.com /tv/we-are-all-afraid-republican-senator-admits-colleagues-are-terrified-of-being-punished-for-criticizing-trump/

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Good to know that they actually do realize this is a disaster, but are simply cowards who would rather punish the rest of the country than risk losing their jobs that they refuse to do.
I think I should get some solace from hearing there are cracks in the GOP foundation, but it just pisses me off more.
Fuck you, nobody cares. Do your job, coward!

For those of you at home, Democrats would need to have just four Republicans join them to vote for impeachment.
In the Senate you would need 19 Republicans to join the Democrats/Independents to remove Trump from office. Honestly I don't think that's out of the realm of possibilities considering there is a literal trial and witnesses can be called to testify about all of the illegal things Trump is doing.
EDIT: BTW this lady is a flipping Senator. Your job is to be a voice for your constituents. Not saying "I'm afraid of retaliation so I'm just going to sit by quietly and let the people who elected me take the brunt of the GOP/MAGA administration's illegal actions."
- That’s what we all thought five years ago…
  
  I'm also not holding me breath, but we also can't pretend that Trump 2.0 is not objectively much worse than Trump 1.0. He did some sketchy, asinine and hateful shit in his first term, but he's fully trying to be a dictator now and he's well on his way to getting there. He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it. And people are pissed, even republican voters. If ever there was a time for them to step up, now is that time.
- Looking from the outside, I'd expect to see or read leaks of Senate and House of Representatives stormed by some obscure security agency on the basis of preventing a coup.
- And we've seen already that Trump doesn't care what people say or what rulings are made. He's going to sit there on his throne and DARE someone to try and throw him off it.
  Of course we know it's less about Trump himself and more about what his crazed lunatic mega fans are going to do to you if they know you're against him.
  Remember that the people who have been sent to El Salvador didn't go there by themselves. ANYONE throughout that process could say "no I'm not doing it", but that means they'll be the next one on the plane, shoved on by the nearest trump-loving drone.
  And they'll justify it because they're "just following orders"

Well, at least she admitted that she's a fucking coward. That's a great first step. Step 2, of course, is to either grow a spine or resign so someone with a spine can take her spot. Color me skeptical, but I don't imagine Sen. Murkowski is willing to take that second step.
- The “resignation” part will be taken care of for her when she loses the midterm elections.

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.
🎻🎻🎻
- If only someone knew that pandering to stupid people would result in something stupid. 🙄
  
  If only someone knew that pandering to vile, evil, monstrous racists would result in something stupid. 🙄
  The southern strategy reaches its crescendo.
- Holy shit that was well worded, hits on all cylinders, and doesn't waste words with fluff.

Not concerned enough to not vote against him. Coward.
- only saying it as a performative measure to not get primaried herself to a magat and also with the permission of the GOP. they do this when they have safe majority in either houses, one or 2 are allowed to vote against.

Damn that's crazy, it's almost like being a check against tyranny is part of your job or something, that you swore an oath to do. But this is America, so you better just keep being afraid instead of acting in some sort of collective fashion to make things better.

So…she and the republicans in office are cowards. That’s nothing new.

You're sacred now? It's only gonna get worse. The easiest time is now.

They keep saying Gen Z leans right, but I don’t know how. Old timers like Buzz Aldrin and Clint Eastwood are old enough to remember when republicans weren’t complete trash. Gen Z isn’t.
- For all we know, the questions on the surveys are like "are you a Democrat" and if not, it must mean they lean right, right?
  They may hate the party, but despise the other party
- LOOOOOTTTTT of Genz incels, tinder really fucked up dating and sex, basically only hot people fuck constantly.
  Every time they fail to match they feel more frustrated and resentful.
- I think it might be that gen z doesn't advertise their political leanings to others.