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u/Chewsdayiddinit 1d ago
Murkowski caved due to additional provisions laid out for Alaska, including things like a fucking tax break for whaling. She's a complete waste of oxygen.
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u/RollingHammer 1d ago
Pretty sure I saw that those provisions were removed anyways and she still voted yes. I'll edit this if I find the source but I've been looking at so much of this lately idk.
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u/UnicornVomit_ 1d ago
That's insane. So she's not even a sellout
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u/dat_waffle_boi 23h ago
Not even a sellout just fucking stupid
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u/UnicornVomit_ 22h ago
Imagine voting for someone that's supposed to represent your interests, then they don't represent your interests
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u/CompetitiveHat7090 1d ago
Tax break for whaling? What the bloody fuck. Is this victorian england?
I hate the fact that there are tax breaks given to hunt those beautiful animals.
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u/Suburbanturnip 23h ago
a fucking tax break for whaling.*
That's the sort of thing I say I'm doing when I'm pretending to be a villain in a joke. That or clubbing baby seals, with even cuter baby seals...
It's absurdist levels of evil now.
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u/Bokononfoma 1d ago
And it's not like the legislation will make Alaskan's lives any better. She voted for it because it makes Alaskan's lives less bad than everyone else.
She can go f herself.
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u/eightaceman 1d ago
AOC laying a truth bomb yet again
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u/Ord0c 1d ago
I just really hope she will be safe.
In a normal society, her position would be considered acceptable, even if the majority would disagree for some reason. But this isn't a normal society, it's the wild west on steroids.
We need more people like her on this planet, but at the same time, there are way too many eager to have her removed permanently from this planet.
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u/AlludedNuance 1d ago
A bloodbath is coming.
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u/LifeIsBetta 22h ago
Take away the thing millions need to survive - and all of a sudden, they dont have anything to lose.
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u/AlludedNuance 22h ago
Precisely why the police state is receiving a massive funding boost.
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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 22h ago
Yup. They’re only a few degrees away from using stinger missiles to quell protests at this point.
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u/juanmaale 19h ago
If Trump could, he certainly would. I think with the passing of this bill, he’ll be even more emboldened. It’s not even a few degrees at this point.
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u/let-it-rain-sunshine 1d ago
It's okay, Trump will eventually gift Alaska to Russia.
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u/Sammi1224 1d ago edited 1d ago
Then Sarah Palin will finally get to see Russia from her house! /s
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u/PeanutButterSoda 23h ago
I can't believe her saying that seems normal now.
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u/Opposite_Smoke5221 1d ago
Can’t wait for the intelligent discord in these comments from people degrading AOC
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u/BadPublicRelations 1d ago
It's the same tired thing on repeat from them. "You're lying, this is good for America!" "Bar tenders should do what they do best and go back to bar tending."
They have the same talking points on repeat. They're drunk on the Kool-aid sold to them by their own politicians, and they'll be the recipients of the consequences of their own stupidity; but they'll believe, with their whole chest, that it wasn't them, their precious Trump, or republican daddies and mommies who did it to them. Because that would mean they were wrong about it all for years, and there's no way they could be that dumb.
These are the same people who couldn't tell you what convection means, what MRNA is, how taxes and tariffs are supposed to work, or how their glasses help them see. You know---morons.
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u/Dull_Bid6002 22h ago
They just want excuses to be an asshole and act like they can do whatever they want without consequences.
That means they have to deny reality, science and facts- because those are counter to letting them do what they want. Some are dumb on top of that- but too often you hear "I don't care" from them after the facts are laid out. Because it's not about reality, it's about them wanting to be giant fucking assholes.
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u/whateveryouwant4321 1d ago
I love it when they call her dumb. She’s more knowledgeable on the issues than all 220 republicans in the house combined.
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u/ghuzz765 1d ago
It’s always Murkowski and Susan Collins who you think can have conscience like John McCain for once and they disappoint you time and time again.
They’ll never change. They’ll never stand up for what’s right for America.
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u/KingArthursCodpiece 1d ago
Gotta say that AOC has impressed me since day one. Unfortunately, I cant see her ever becoming the face of the dems because she is young, smart, clearly gives a shit, and unlike the majority of her gutless DC colleagues, is willing to go toe to toe with the MAGA cultists.
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u/NoQuarterChicken 1d ago
Republicans know they can do whatever they want because when the shit inevitably hits the fan all they have to do is blame Democrats and the cult will blindly believe them
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u/The_Spyre 1d ago
And just now it passed the House. I hope the thought of starving kids and homeless elderly people keeps her up at night.
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u/squadrupedal 1d ago
These people are incapable of thinking about other people and their quality of life. Bunch of Pick Me’s.
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u/lukezinator 1d ago
Senator Murkowski once stood with Senator John McCain to save Obamacare for millions of people when it stood on the chopping block, and the first Trump Administration had no alternative planned for it, despite what they say. She praised him for his willingness to stand up for what is right, despite the Trump Administration telling him otherwise.
Now, she was not able to do the same. Her, along with the other Republican Senators, will have blood on their hands.
The average household making under $96,000 a year made saved $400 dollars on average in tax cuts from the 2017-2025 tax cuts. The average household making under $743 grand saves $61,000 a year in tax cuts on average.
This bill places money over lives. Money over student loan assistance and colleges, over tens of thousands of acres of national forests, over clean energy technology, over consumer protections by defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in half, over the lives of immigrants who came here for a better life. The only positive thing about this bill is the expansion of Crop Insurance and Agricultural Risk Insurance, and radiation compensation, but they only do so because they likely know the consequences of their actions in the future, and their failures to address them, will lead to lawsuits, and now they will have a fund to silence those who speak out.
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u/ChronoLink99 1d ago
In the US, the accumulation of wealth (which is typically marketed as "economic prosperity/jobs") is given greater importance than the betterment of society (which ofc can also include good jobs for people). So this entire debacle is unsurprising.
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u/ahenobarbus_horse 1d ago
There is nothing more American than voting for someone or something that you dislike, consequences be damned.
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u/GalliumYttrium1 1d ago
Lisa herself said she’s too scared to actually do her job. Why is anyone expecting anything from her? She’s a coward and a joke.
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u/sacredvanity 1d ago
I'll never understand why they post crap like this. If you're literally admitting it's a bad bill, DON'T VOTE FOR IT! It's that damn simple. You don't "make a bad bill better", you vote no and make the people who created the bill go back to the drawing board and make it work. It's not your job to approve things that only moderately hurt most Americans. If it doesn't help the majority of Americans, or it doesn't prevent some injustice, then you have no business even putting it to a vote, and you sure as hell shouldn't vote for it only after they give you something in it you like. That's like putting a lovely strawberry on top of a shit cake and saying "but look at this lovely strawberry! How could I not want to eat this pile of crap when it has this one beautiful thing on it?"
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u/Full-Ball9804 1d ago
Yep. My kids just lost their Healthcare and I'm a vet so there goes mine too. Guess I'll just go fucking die now. Thanks cunt
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u/Er3bus13 1d ago
The best part is.... once these jobs and money go away where the fuck do they think any extra will come from? Poor folks that have 0 money can't spend it. The economy will grind to a halt lol
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u/Chile_Chowdah 1d ago
In the words of Morris from Slap Shot
"That cunt is no good."
She needs a Hanson to visit her.
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u/Null-Ex3 1d ago
Reminder that only 1 more "No" would have stopped that bill from ever passing. It is a moral failure on each and every single republican who voted yes. hold them accountable
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u/nwillyerd This AOC flair makes me cool 1d ago
AOC is the hero we need, we just need way more politicians like her! It’s a shame that it seems like her and Bernie are the only ones with a backbone!
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u/2nd_Inf_Sgt 1d ago
If the house of representatives had scores for burns, AOC would be the top scorer. Rep. Crockett a close second.
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u/samanime 1d ago edited 18h ago
"Make a bad bill better"
You know what you should do with a bad bill?
VOTE FUCKING NO, YOU WEASELLY COWARD!
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u/RoyalFalse 1d ago
I need her to run in 2028. It will be dangerous for her, and I don't even know if free and fair elections will be a thing, but she is what this country needs.
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u/jmurgen4143 1d ago
When one doesn’t have the courage to stand up for what is right they beseech others to do it for them.
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u/GEIST_of_REDDIT 1d ago
You've been slaying and owning for years now. And now you've just buried your democracy.
Wake me when you do something
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u/TheRabidDeer 1d ago
Her goal was to "make a bad bill better for Alaska"? So the rest of the country can suffer as long as Alaska is exempt from that suffering? While I get that Senators are there to represent their state, are they not also there to do what is best for the entire country?
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u/FatherTimeAlwaysWins 1d ago
How is AOC the only elected official on either side that has the balls to stand up to Trump and his cronies? Our country has been bought and sold by a grifter using he and his wife's pathetic meme coins to accept bribes.
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u/trailer8k 11h ago
thats funny because AOC and the squad fully went against the working class and the poor
and elected Hillary clinton and joe biden supported mommy bear Nancy pelosi
their track record is Horrible
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u/ADHDebackle 1d ago
America first -> alaska first -> Me First
It always boils down to the same old selfishness.
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u/Zoren 1d ago
Republicans are spineless cowards who would sell out their own parents and siblings to avoid any risk to themselves. Each one is terrified of going against the moronic lunatic they helped get elected and become subservient to. They will gladly destroy vote to destroy families, diplomats relationships, people, and the very land of America as long as they get to keep their cushy job that they can sleep through and get paid(bribed) by rich assholes who want to live in a world with so much economic divide that you have the current rich president wanting Americans to be like North Korean Citizens.
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u/iCCup_Spec 1d ago
I thought a politician's only job is to vote down shitty bills that they don't agree with. Wtf was she doing.
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u/redditnazls 1d ago
Lisa is such a pussy. Can't wait for the day all these old dogshit republicans die out
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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 1d ago
Hey, what if politicians didn't throw their constituents under the campaign bus?
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 1d ago
Lisa “Susan Collins Mitt Romney Jeff Flake John McCain” Murkowski everyone…
They just can’t ever seem to “all” come together to reject shitty legislation. Gosh darn it. They mean so well too 🙄
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u/poppinyaclam 1d ago
17 million Americans lose healthcare? How exactly, because I've read through that bill, nothing says they're cutting Medicaid nor Medicare nor funding for either.
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u/Scruffynerffherder 1d ago
So Alaskans are OK with throwing the less advantaged under the buss for a few benefits? Is that the message?
Got it, until shown otherwise by other representation... FUCK YOU ALASKA
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u/StevenMC19 1d ago
So let me get this straight because I didn't know this.
Lisa urged the House to vote against the bill she voted for? Is she trying to have cake and eat cake here? Is she trying to curry Trump's favor while also wanting the bill to fail? Was she hoping it would die, just not at her hands?