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.”
Then why didn’t the party push to have him impeached when they had the fucking chance?! They could have convicted him and be done with it but here we are! You all under his fucking thumbs AGAIN
Maybe try not being spineless traitors?
Right? Like who the fuck cares? If I could call tRump a fascist dickhead to his face, I wouldn’t fear shit. Fuck this dude. Fucking Republican cowards.
They had DOZENS of opportunities to join the Dems and send him into the shadow realm, yet they always refused.
Eat shit you traitor cunt.
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.
🎻🎻🎻
In the pit of despair, suddenly a schadenfreude jacuzzi appears. Stays are limited to 5 minutes, but it’s a nice 5 minutes.
That’s a silver lining, would prefer them dead or in prison, but something I suppose
I’m sure Susan Collins will come along soon and explain how it’s OK, he’s learned his lesson.
If only we hadn’t done everything possible to get us here!
THERE ARE MORE OF US
There has never been a better time to call a general strike and it’s one of the only nonviolent options left for everyday people.
help, please
We are afraid we will get primaried by the MAGA GOP and then lose out on all the money we make in insider trading and kickbacks so we are going to just let people suffer.
“I mean… The founders have put methods in place to correct this issue, but you know… Fox news and the bully in chief. I’d say that checks and balances have been obliterated but then I’d get death threats by the cult of Trump.”
Fox news: Lisa Marxowsky admitted that she’s a far left Democrat Communist! She has Trump derangement syndrome!
I was using AI to explore this idea a bit just messing around and it brought up similarities to the Milgram experiment - “the experiment requires that you continue” electric shock experiment.
This is the AIs words to be clear, not mine: “people often obey, even absurd or cruel commands, out of fear, conditioning, or unwillingness to challenge authority—even when they have the power to say no.”
I can understand that fear, but have some courage. Find the people against Trump and do everything he hates/dislikes at the same time. Waste his damn time, make him miss a golf trip and more. Just an old racists Grandpa that just birches and watch TV.
Trump had no problem creating a fog and speed run things. Do the same to him. Can it be done?
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
The GOP people she is referring to need to grow a pair and stand up for democracy. Maybe if enough concerned citizens call their GOP representatives, we can see a few start to stand up for what is right.
You elected some good ones.
Then step down and open up your spot to someone with a spine!!!
She’ll be replaced with more maga.
Didn’t they already try to do that with Murkowski and she won as a write in?
No, she was on the ballot with Kelly Chewbacca as the token MAGA candidate. Alaska has ranked choice, so the R ticket split, but people were able to list Murkowski as a backup to their D (or 3rd party) pick.
Ok, so Republicans tried to defeat her but Alaska’s election system stopped them. Seems like she’s in a uniquely secure position to be doing more.
Yeah, for now and we’ll see what happens in 2028.
Ranked choice voting is constantly under attack on every ballot in Alaska and it survived 2024’s election by an absolutely razor-thin margin.
I think it’d be more effective in the short term to show enthusiastic support for these kinds of admissions. Give these early defectors a soft landing. Politicians entirely operate in a perpetual popularity contest, where they’re always trying to do today what they think will make them popular tomorrow. Maybe Murkowski thinks she has a chance of maintaining that popularity and we should do what we can to validate that assumption. If she helps turn the tide, that’ll warrant some respect. After the worst threat has been neutralized, some deeper review of her history and scrutiny of how she intends to continue on as a politician is then worth deep consideration.
But I’ll take allies where I can. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The worst my enemy is, the better his enemies look to me.
The problem is these are Republicans were dealing with. Unless somebody on this site has a few million dollars to throw at them there’s nothing tangible we can offer them personally, and we wouldn’t have gotten here in the first place if they had any basic sense of right and wrong we could appeal to.
However, the good news is that we can honestly point out the very simple situation they’re obviously in, and if enough of us do that often enough reality might finally break through to them. The situation is that Donald Trump has a list of people he wants to hurt and they’re all definitely on it because they could threaten his power. Being nice to him might move their name down the list but it won’t get them off of it. The only way they can protect themselves is by taking Donald Trump’s power from him before he gets to them.
We don’t need Republicans to be good people to deal with this situation (which is good because they absolutely are not and haven’t been for decades and decades), we just need them to be slightly less stupid than they’re currently being.
If only his stupid fucking base would just disown him already…
I’ve never seen so many people so hopelessly infatuated with such an unattractive, inarticulate, uncharismatic slimeball. But…maybe that’s somehow his strength. Like, look everyone, even a fat ugly rough-talking slob can allegedly be rich and surrounded by allegedly beautiful women. That at least explains to me why he has classless dude appeal. Why any self respecting woman would like him is a mystery I’ll take to my grave.
