Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from Donald Trump as she criticized what she called “unlawful” executive overreach and sweeping federal cuts.
Murkowski’s comments came during a 45-minute session at The Foraker Group’s annual leadership summit and stands as one of the starkest public admissions from a Republican yet of the political pressure facing those in the party who push back against Trump policy or rhetoric.
“We are all afraid,” Murkowski told the crowd on Monday.
Pausing, she added: “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”
I don’t understand that fear. They played an enormous and central role in creating, cultivating, and multiplying that fear, for fucking DECADES. Where the fuck did they think it was gonna lead? Everything being fine and dandy, after getting issued their Atomic American Family™? Black people and klan members holding hands in a circle and singing kumbayah? Jesus fucking fuck. It’s so fucking stupid. It’s so obviously, blatantly fucking stupid. It’s like driving towards a wall at a buck twenty and being surprised by the sudden stop.
Trust me I know and you’re right, however now I rather cut the head off the snake and deal with the rest later. Although, with this snake has more than one head. We’re just watching history repeat. They live in fear, but that fear will come true if they don’t do anything.
I’m all ears for anything that works at this point, we need results not empowering them with hypocrisy. Hit them where they give a fuck.
Suggesting how to hit them where they give a fuck would probably get me banned, despite that it’s pretty much exactly what the cultists they’ve whipped up likely have planned for anyone who looks at them in a way they don’t like