Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from President Donald Trump as she criticized what she called “unlawful” executive overreach and sweeping federal cuts.
“We are all afraid”, says one of the literally only people on the planet with the power to actually do something about it.
Seriously. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, YOU FUCKING CHODE.
This whole ordeal can be stopped by about half a dozen Republicans any time they want.
Threaten to leave the party, go independent, and caucus with Democrats to appoint a new House and Senate speaker. It would take, what, 3? Maybe 4 Republicans in each chamber to flip control of Congress. You don’t even have to hold your nose and vote with Democrats on actual funding bills or anything. Just vote with Dems on curtailing Trump’s actions and impeaching the fucking bastard. Even if you can’t get him removed from office because the rest of your party are spineless cowards, you could at least pass bills to do things like reverse these stupid tariffs and actually reclaim power that was granted to you by the Constitution in the first fucking place.
This woman, Rand Paul, and Susan Collins have all spoken up. All they need to do is find one more Republican willing to say “We are willing to caucus with Democrats to elect a new Senate majority leader unless our demands to curtail these damaging Trump tariffs, reclaim Congressional powers, and reverse these destructive policies are met.” That’s it. Same in the house. 3 Republicans in the house willing to stand up and caucus with Democrats to get shit back under control.
But if all you’re going to do is complain about being “afraid” when you’re simultaneously rubber-stamping his entire agenda, then have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up, because you voted for this. And if the rest of us are going to have to suffer because of your cowardice, then we’re going to at least get some entertainment out of it along the way once the leopard starts eating your face.
I have absolutely zero pity for some of the most overpaid, well-protected, resourceful people on the planet when they’re the ones complaining about being afraid. Fuck you. What about the rest of us? You seem to have been perfectly OK with it when it was just the brown people and poors being effected.
“We are all afraid!”, …but we don’t want to lose our privilidge by opposing him.
Fuck you cowardly cunt.
As noted, a small group could end this.
Naw, she is no coward. She is a pro-abortion Republican that voted against Trump. Rather than be her ally you act like a little bitch.
We need to be sending “CHODE” T-Shirts to all these people afraid of Trump. Your idea, so get on it 😘
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Of all the people we needed to be brave, it had to be the fucking Republicans. We are truly and utterly fucked.
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
You took an oath. Being afraid isn’t an excuse.
We expect 19 year old soldiers to run into fire and destruction to honor their oaths. We expect no less from our elected representatives.
Yeah and if they haven’t noticed - creeping fascism only gets worse the longer you let it linger. Time to bite the bullet and do something, it’s not going to go away on its own and we’re all going to be in more danger (including GOP senators) the longer it goes on.
I’ve said this before, but being an elected politician should be treated as a position of service, not of status and excess. If you want the office for the right reasons then having some downsides to taking the power should be no big deal.
I took that oath at 18.
Amen.
Chris Van Hollen travelled to a dictatorship to free a man wrongfully imprisoned without due process by two authoritarians, while these simpering cowards whine about the monster they created.
“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.”
- This, right here, is the most open and honest admission of what the US is today, by the ruling party elite: A dictatorship. An authoritarian state.
Do the fucking job you were elected to do, coward.
They are doing the jobs they were paid to do, by corporate America.
Being ineffectual corporate-whores who capitulate to capital is the core requirement of every politicians job description in the 21st Century. Though, it turns out corruption is incompatible with democracy and the rule of law. Who would have thought?
Clearly they are not yet NEARLY afraid enough about the path they’re allowing the Trump admin to take.
Oh no, you might get primaried?
Every republican in this situation should resign, let someone brave take their place.
Politicians: Take the job and the paycheck to represent the people, bow out when it’s time to do that.
I might get called extremist for this, but senators and representatives should be willing to kill their career and reputation in politics to fight for their constituents. Otherwise, are we just paying them to have a good time??!
There definitely needs to be a restructuring of incentives
I remember when my politicians had, yknow., a fucking spine and principles. Yes. Im that old.
Didn’t think there were any Revolutionary War Veterans left alive…
Hey. I’m terrified of living under a fascist regime! Twinsies.
If only we had a body of elected representatives that were able to do something about the situation…
I bet they hold private meetings about who they could even replace trump with after impeaching and removing Trump, Vance, etc.
If it falls upon speaker of the House then Womp Womp it’s still project 2025 time.
I guess they’re secretly hoping to get wiped out in the midterms.
Just launch a real investigation into the election and they’ll easily find proof that it was stolen, and the true US president has been Harris all this time. I’m sure many GOP senators are secretly wishing she had won now.
Fucking cowards.
Do your FUCKING jobs!!! You literally have the power to remove him. ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO REMOVE HIM!!! YOU HAD TWO OPPORTUNITIES ALREADY!!!
Confirmation of something we already know, or should already know - elected politicians are craven cowards.
This is actually great news. We can get them to side with us against HitlerPig. All we have to do is make them fear the citizens more than HitlerPig, and there are a LOT more of us than them.
You and your colleagues could actually stop him instead of lining up to defend/allow his fascist actions.
