• Zerlyna@lemmy.world
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    Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking donkey raping shiteater of a senator. Am I wrong?

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    What the actual fuck.

    Not quite the same level as McConnell filibustering his own bill after the Dems supported it, but it’s close.

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    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…

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    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.)

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    With the way this bill is moving through the process, I am surprised we have not heard of any democrats slipping in provisions.

    But I guess expecting democrats to do anything resembling opposition is a bit too much to ask for.

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    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

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      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”.

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    Passing the buck. Coward. You’re a US Senator. Act like it.

    (though I guess these days cowardice is exemplary of Senate behavior).

    Also, I’m totally sure Walz would’ve cast the tie-breaking vote for such a shit bill, isn’t that right couch sitters / stein voters? Try not to fall for the right-wing wedge driving disinfo ops next time please… If there is a next time.

    Edit: Tankies, gullible Stein voters, accelerationists, nilhists, couch-sitters, vatniks – whatever you are – complaining below. Try your best not to feign too much concern over the passage of this and subsequent damage the GOP is doing. You don’t get a say here since obviously you believe Harris would’ve done the same, like (checks notes) booting millions off medicaid that will according to experts lead to 50,000 deaths annually. Some would argue such people who asserted a BoTh SiDeS fallacy are complicit in those deaths.

    Now if you’re willing to admit your mistake, then welcome back.

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      Try not to fall for the right-wing wedge driving disinfo ops next time please…

      You say as you push more right-wing disinformation.

      https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition

      The Democrats wanted Trump to get elected which is why they threw the election in favor of him by running on a platform of watered-down Republicanism. These are the same people that passed Trump’s budget bill earlier this year, which retroactively made all of his illegal executive orders legal, and who just voted against impeaching Trump. They want these tax cuts for the wealthy and all the other abhorrent, vulture capitalistic shit just as much as Republicans do.

      Take off your blinders already and stop supporting fascists.

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        Hahaha bystanders observe the absurdity of this claim. Talk about a non-sequitur.

        I’m all for shitting on AIPAC Dems, but all this proves is that right-wing disinfo ops convinced people like you to amplify their bullshit and sway larger swaths of people. So good job parroting right-wing disinfo when you could’ve done hard work actually telling people what Harris was without question the better candidate on a multitude of issues.

        Maybe less drinking right-wing kool-aid and more door-knocking.

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          You can’t even respond to the multiple pieces of evidence listed demonstrating that Democrats collude with Republicans against the populace and instead have to resort to ad hominems. People like you are the reason why Trump is on his second term as president and why the Republicans control the entire government. You’re working for the fascists and you can’t even see it.

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            Because it’s irrelevant. Even entertaining collusion, your argument that we cut out the middleman and hand the keys to the GOP is unquestionably worse in every logical way.

            Last I checked, Dems gave more aid to Ukraine. Are you saying you’re complicit on the Russian genocide against Ukraine?

            You’re the reason we have Trump. Absurd.

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              How the fuck is the DNC actively sabotaging themselves and acting as little more than controlled opposition in elections “irrelevant” to the fact that Republicans now run the entire government? This is complete nonsense.

              There’s no “handing the keys to the GOP” when they already have the keys precisely because of Democratic aid that they continue to give to this very day.

              Last I checked, Dems gave more aid to Ukraine. Are you saying you’re complicit on the Russian genocide against Ukraine?

              More nonsense. You’re clearly unable defend your position and you refuse to even acknowledge the mountain of evidence against it, so now you just resort to acting like a short-circuiting chat bot trained on Nancy Pelosi’s talking points.

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                So you’re condoning genocide and dodging the fact that Democrats were objectively better for the people of Ukraine?

                Classic deflection.