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…
Well it’s obvious she wants to be seen as a loyal GOP supporter or Trump with her ‘yes’ vote, but still wants the bill to be delayed. Having the house delay the bill makes her look like a loyal lapdog for optics, but secretly wants changes and can blame someone else for the bill being delayed instead of having the delay blamed on her vote
Coward
secretly wants changes and can blame someone else
So many of these Republicans are fully aware that the bill will break the back of the healthcare industry in their states. None of them want to stick their necks out for it, though. The mega-donors will forgive them in the end, but the primary voters are only going to hear “You’re a Secret Democrat for voting against MAGA”.
She always has that confused puppy look.
Gee if only there was some other way she could express her opposition to the bill. Some kind of voting process…
It was a 50/50 vote, if she would have voted no, it would not have passed the Senate
Exactly!
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.
While your two downvotes are one of each.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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.
While I understand you may have meant that as a figure of speech, I also don’t want to shrug what you typed off either. Politics can be very stressful, and the challenges in our life can feel completely overwhelming at times. If you are truly feeling hopeless, please reach out for help. If you’re in the US you can call 988. If you’re elsewhere please reach out to a friend, emergency services, or even a stranger. The world is a better place with you than without you.
Second this!
Never kill yourself for something that’s somebody else’s fault.
Or even if it is your fault.
So just…never kill yourself?
That’s the general gist of the standard advice, yeah.
I’m sorry but I’m chuckling at Guy Fawkes making this statement.
Don’t kill yourself.
But if you do, maybe consider making it worth it and becoming a hero/legend to the rest of us. You may take this to mean whatever you think it means.
We need you, anon. Tell me about your favorite character.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Coward
Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking donkey raping shiteater of a senator. Am I wrong?
No you are not.
Also a right cunt of a coward.
Yes you are wrong. How dare you drag the donkey into this
Not wrong but you skipped the other 49
99?
No, Cartman, you’re not wrong here.
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.
What the actual fuck.
Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it’s close.
She is more centrist than most Republicans, but she’s still afraid of being primaried.
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.
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.
What a fucking shitheel
A truly inspiring example of leadership in action.
Leadership inaction
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.)
