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Jazmin Flowers's avatar

If she wants the house to vote it down then why not just vote no and avoid this back and forth bullshit?!?!

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Nicole Flowerheart's avatar

And honestly for her to act like Alaska is the only one with something to lose... this is about the whole damn country being swallowed up in one fell swoop. Alaska's "interests" won't matter at that point.

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nicole reisch galante's avatar

These GOPers are one more deplorable than that other; like only bloody Alaska matters more that the poor and middle class of tge rest of America⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️

A coffin for her and her nearest and dearest!

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Robot Bender's avatar

I wonder what she'll say when she's standing in front of the God she claims to worship?

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Family Turner and Loudebeck's avatar

trust yourself enough to believe that you are a God in your own world. if you believe that way worship yourself baby. you trust in your God as in we trust in our gods. no matter what you believe dears. just be dearly beloved always.

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Family Turner and Loudebeck's avatar

yes forward the last two. the first one is touchy about the GOP that's just a talking point.

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Deana DeHaven's avatar

Typical Republican response: “only my state matters.” And also a typical narcissistic response: It doesn’t even make sense. If we make it that long, she’s up for reelection in 2028. I can guarantee her Alaskan constituents are going to kick her evil ass to the curb. Wait and see…

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Lisa essentially got a "get out of jail free" card and threw the football to Alaska's House representatives. Thanks tons, Lisa, you're a real champ.

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Deana DeHaven's avatar

Lisa is a total twit in my book.

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Lou's avatar

You are right on!!!! Every state loses with this bill!!!

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Kathryn Murphy's avatar

Probably too much of a chicken and not enough spine. We are really seeing who is in politics for what they can get out of it. I am really tired of this.

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nicole reisch galante's avatar

But sooooooo many spineless. I remember when there was 2,3,4,5 spineless shits in the Senate but 45…obfuckingscenc!

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Llana Shaver's avatar

I'm so tired of feeling like a goddamn yo yo . Seriously, how, how do they do this ? I'm so angry.

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Deana DeHaven's avatar

They THRIVE on chaos and power trips. It makes them feel powerful. Asshats.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

I'll tell you what: I'd bet that Ohio Democrats are already planning to knock on MAGA doors ALL over the state in an attempt to kick out Senators Husted and Moreno. Husted's corrupt as hell and Moreno is a copycat car salesman. They were in the Senate early on, brighteyed and bushy tailed, like cocky Jim Jordan in the House. They were ready to vote "yes" in the beginning, it was quite obvious . . . a middle finger to the many Medicaid and Medicare recipients in Ohio. And of course, Ohio's shame, J.D. Vance, was the damn tiebreaker in the Senate vote.

I did social work in Vance's birth county ten years before that phony was born into poverty. I believe his mother was receiving "welfare" as it was called then. He should be deeply ashamed!

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Natasha Helms's avatar

Good luck on knocking on doors. It's going to be like de-programming cult members.

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LOUIS YOUNG's avatar

Because she’s a gifting joke, voting yes on a bill that she admittedly doesn’t like. Trash.

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Mango's avatar

She is a Republican after all.

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Deana DeHaven's avatar

Narcissists LOVE to start fires for attention. ANYONE who supports Trump is obviously a Cluster B personality disorder.

Feel better soon, Aaron. We appreciate you.

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Dolly Tupper's avatar

Absolutely, I was thinking the same.

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Esterterrestrial's avatar

I saw a guy who's tism is in politics and he said that murkowski, collins and couple other repbulican senators just take turns voting no when they dont need an extra vote to win.

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Maria K.'s avatar

Right? Just save everyone time and money.

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Radha Nichole Smith's avatar

Because Republikkklans are only interested in themselves and the very rich. Murkowski is only a “moderate” like Collins. You have to compare both of them to L. Ron Hubbard to get to “moderate.” NYT & all other billionaire media concerns are totally in favor of the Fascists.

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Barbra's avatar

Playing her constituency and also Trump and the bewitched MAGA crew

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TeaDubb's avatar

Thank you for everything Aaron.

I hate what’s happening, but I appreciate getting it straight from you. My only news source! Thank you, thank you thank you hope your ear is doing better.

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Erica's avatar

Never thought I’d be living long enough to time travel back into 1940s Germany, but here I find myself apparently. Just with more alligators and less German speakers. 😑

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Danielle's avatar

Me neither and it's sickening

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Marty's avatar

Frightening, actually.

Ivana Trump should’ve been deported long before she became a naturalized citizen, after the spawned his 3 grifter children. And Mel? An Einstein visa? WTH approved that?! A nude model, an Einstein visa recipient? She needs to be first in line for denaturalization. Was she ever, at all? Do we have the proof? She claimed President wasn’t a U.S. citizen, though we all saw with our eyes his birth certificate.

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Cyndi Stanifer's avatar

She was probably an Einstein with her “skills”

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EileenOR's avatar

Didn't you mean the 1930s in Germany? World War II began in 1941.

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Janice Darling's avatar

but problems began years before that....

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EileenOR's avatar

What is your "but" about? Goggle Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.

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Rosemary's avatar

You are exactly correct. We are back in Germany in the 1930s and Donald Trump is going to have a genocide. He is Adolf Hitler reincarnated and we are going to suffer at his hands.😡😡👺 I cry when I think about the lives my poor granddaughters are going to have, they will never have the freedom that I grew up with😢 they will be treated like slaves and baby machines, and they will have no rights😢😞

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Llana Shaver's avatar

I'm thinking it's more like the coliseum and gladiators ,alligator alcatraz.

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Toni Galloway's avatar

Please, please let it fail🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Brenda Davis's avatar

I’m with you!

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Margaret McNellis's avatar

Same!

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Taterbug1999's avatar

Murkowski is the literal scum of the earth. When you know the bill is so bad that the only way you’ll vote yes is if your state gets special protections, and yet you take those back room deals and vote yes damning the rest of the country, you are a special kind of reptile.

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Marty's avatar

Though I didn’t vote for her, I was a 40 y proud Alaskan resident though not of the Libertarian or R party who literally siezed power 30 years ago much to the detriment of the State.

She voted against impeaching FOTUS (felon of the United States) twice. She like McConnell could’ve had a real Republican party. It’s long dead and gone. Good riddens. How don’t know how Kinzinger and others still call themselves Republicans. There is no Republican Party anymore.

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Taterbug1999's avatar

Yeah it’s really quite disgusting to think that, in name at least, they were the party of Lincoln. Now they’re made up of the kinds who would have loaded Booth’s weapon.

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Janice Darling's avatar

succinctly put....

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Danielle's avatar

What I don't get is this supposed to be illegal to take bribes for a vote yet here we are this woman is literally taking a ride for her she basically said she would vote Yes if her citizens didn't have to go through it that is a ride literally like the definition of bribery!

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Taterbug1999's avatar

Sadly, I think Congress is long past following any semblance of the law. Once lobbyists were allowed in the doors, they ceased to represent any interests but their own.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

The John Roberts Supreme Court will have a shameful history and legacy. They did not support free enterprise. . . they encouraged bribery and highway robbery.

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Taterbug1999's avatar

I tend to think that decades from now, when the dust settles, this Court will be remembered as poorly as the justices who adjudicated the Dred Scott trial.

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Marlo's avatar

I agree. I called her several times and do did my sister. I told her the country would hate her if she voted for it and she was being selfish if she did so. I told her to be a strong woman and do the right thing. She will look like she caved to fear otherwise.

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Taterbug1999's avatar

I am deeply concerned why they fear DT more than their electorate. Do they know something we don’t regarding future elections?

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MaryMaile's avatar

Good question -- except didn't Elon put money behind several recent runs to no avail?

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Taterbug1999's avatar

I know he at least put a lot of money into the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice race, and they still lost, which gives me some hope, but it’s early days. Elon has said that he will put money behind Republican candidates that aren’t Trump‘s picks in the next elections so while that’s bonkers, maybe it’s also cause to hope there will be future elections?? 😬😬

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Janice Darling's avatar

if there are no elections, why have a senate or house at all. maybe then they can go on SNAP and Medicaid and welfare, except there won't be any by then....

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Taterbug1999's avatar

Honestly I can only imagine what the political landscape of this country may look like by 2028. We are only 5 months and 11 days in 😭

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Jill's avatar

Yes she failed but so did 49 other republicans. They should all get the same hate

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Taterbug1999's avatar

I’m gonna reserve just a smidge extra for her, since she was a no vote until she made special agreements to shield her state. While they’re all horrible, that’s a special level of 🐂 💩

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The Shepard's avatar

It’s time. EVERYBODY!!!!!!!! MOUNT UP

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Robot Bender's avatar

This is how revolutions and civil wars start. This is our "Let them eat cake" moment.

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Disguy Ovahea's avatar

This is the slippery slope. They’ve normalized concentration camps and started selling merch. Congressional Republicans passed a provision allowing Trump to legally deport US citizens a few months ago. Trump’s been talking about depositing US citizens ever since Bukele’s visit to the White House to desensitize us.

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Danielle's avatar

Where the hell would they deport US citizens? It's makes no sense we're from the US there's nowhere to deport US but the US. He is freaking insane and IDK why they're letting him do this.

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Sarah Dee's avatar

Since most of the people being “deported” are being kidnapped and either sent to a third country or put into concentration camps, my guess is that’s where he would “deport” a citizen

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Disguy Ovahea's avatar

You’re right. Technically speaking, it’s not deportation, it’s exile. He’s looking to send US prisoners to CECOT, according to the video of him and Bukele in the White House. How long until political dissidents are considered “the worst of the worst?”

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Cathy Delia's avatar

Fear and cowardice

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Eva Marie Romero's avatar

Exactly! Just like where would they deport Native Americans? They're on their land! It makes no sense at all.

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L M's avatar

And let’s keep in mind that Latinos are native to this land.

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Eva Marie Romero's avatar

Exactly! Just like where would they deport Native Americans? They're on their land! It makes no sense at all.

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Anna Birr's avatar

Because they are really on the take from their corporate owners. Lots of democrats are too. THEY DO NOT CARE IF WE EAT, IF OUR CHILDREN EAT, IF WE CAN PAY THE RENT.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

The Trump Administration has been revealed to have contacted >60 nations, asking them to take our deportees. Many are small, vulnerable nations in Africa. Many have leaders who are perfectly willing to take bribes.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Alligator Alcatraz.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

Yeah. I read this several days ago, but the article (NY Times?) said it was planned to be an open air camp (no roofs) (note the Florida temperatures in summer, incl. humidity and insects). The photo here is probably for propaganda purposes and may be only one section of the concentration camp (let's call a spade a spade). People will die here. People who have been denied due process or even an attorney or family visits will be sadistically punished. Certainly, Democratic elected leaders will be denied visits.

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are the first two on my Nuremberg 2.0 shit list.

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Janice Darling's avatar

I agree with your list. I must say that florida everglades in the summer is mosquito hell. Absolute hell. No one is going to get out alive, metaphorically, and no one is going to get out unscathed, physically. Baking in the scorching sun, eaten alive by bugs (even the cockroaches are the size of mandarin oranges), sapped by unbelievable humidity, this is deliberate cruel and unusual punishment for those who get turned on by cruelty and bloated by false power. I only hope that our president gets to experience it for himself, since he likes florida so much. He likes indoor, air conditioned, soft mattress, fawning sycophant Florida, not the hell on earth that he is responsible for creating, along with ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE SILENT ON THE SUBJECT.

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Natalie Ocasio's avatar

Satan has his mind full of mush. I don’t know if your a believer, when I used to pray to my God Jehovah regarding them I was asking for things that against his will nor do I have the authority. Vengeance belongs to God. So it dawned to me that these people do not have a conscience so I ask him to give them one i ask him to open their minds and their hearts to warm their hearts. Try thinking about like this screwed us over they screwed their own flesh and blood over. I know my God is going goin to hold them accountable. In his own Mysterious ways maybe we can’t see it but they are paying for this. Those people he had throw from the cargo pit didn’t wash up out of no Where they were guided to their so that we all can see what’s really going . I know my Almighty father protects me & mines. I pray for us to give us strength beyond what is normal, I count my blessings to good things are happening to too I know because good things are happening for me & mines and I am smile cause it okay to smile. They want to be miserable. In the Matthew chapter 5 Jesus the son of God said to turn our mourning into joy. I never understood that how do I turn mourning into joy? Then it dawn on me no matter already gets and how we feel on the inside smile in the outside don’t let them see you down. I know this all some twisted twilight experience I’m glad you like I’m not even in my body but no matter what live your best life.

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Robot Bender's avatar

I remember one Holocaust survivor say that God would have to beg him for forgiveness.

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Natalie Ocasio's avatar

Maybe so, they suffered a lot but Looking to blame for what Satan has caused. That the whole lie. But they were not prosecuted over their faith the only ones that were prosecuted over their faith was the Jehovah witnesses, and even as they were dying, getting their heads cut off they never blamed God. Man choose and put faith in imperfect man just like man. I didn’t choose this so many others chose Hitler, so they choose greed over giving war over peace. Jews are still waiting for the messiah they denied Jesus Christ because he wasn’t rich enough from them. Yes even Deny God’s son because he wasn’t rich. Jesus himself did not agree with the Jew scribes the Religious leaders of his days because they were teaching false documents So they Prosecuted there, king They called him a madman because he came to heal not the righteous. The sick does not need no doctor, but they came. He came to be with the sinners with the poor to heal the sick. They hated him so much they had him killed. There will be a resurrection and all of them will be coming back, just like the righteous and the unrighteous

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Latosha fordham's avatar

I’m so embarrassed because I’m from Miami Florida and this is terrible.

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Janet Sanderson's avatar

I hear you! Fort Pierce here. Another reason to have a strong dislike of DeSensless!😡

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Cathy Delia's avatar

Fellow Floridian. Desantis is scum. He couldn't lead a marching band much less a state.

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Janet Sanderson's avatar

His tenure is almost up…but not soon enough! And he wants to run for president again?…good luck!🙄

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Ale G.'s avatar

At least he has the white boots for leading a band🤪. Wonder if those boots would withstand snake bites.

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Jeff Ruvolo's avatar

You mean Disasstis?

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Robot Bender's avatar

DeSatan

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Janet Sanderson's avatar

😂 Good one!

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Janice Darling's avatar

YOU who live in Florida know what kind of hell trump is building for hapless people. Between the swarming mosquitoes (I have been in the everglades in the summer....shudder) and the relentless heat and humidity and scorching sun, these people are going to suffer and sicken and dehydrate and who knows what. Metal cages--great, they can burn as well. This man is sick. And all who are silent in the face of this evil are complicit in it.

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Celia Leventhal's avatar

Call your governor, senators, and congressman every day and tell them how you feel about their disgusting disrespect for human life. Or however you want to protest. Your senators an d congressman can be reached at 202-224-3121.

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Chelo's avatar

Thank you Aaron for always keeping us posted. I am so angry what is happening!! But im not giving up.

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Amanda Sheehan's avatar

I’ll believe when I see it 🍿 I feel like they all put on a show saying they’re going to vote no and then they chicken taco out like their lord and savior. Government workers have truly lost their way and forgot they took a job to work for the people … Spineless jellyfish

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Dina Bacon's avatar

I agree. They are just saying but when it comes down to it they will vote yes. Just like the other 2 voting sessions. This government is no longer for "We the People" such a shame.

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Marc Klein's avatar

Wtf you can't fucking deport citizens..

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Roberto's avatar

Yet, they’re doing it!😡

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Marty's avatar

WITH SCOTUS6 approval!

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Kay G's avatar

Very Very Very Very stupid thing to even threaten to deport American citizens. Again reminding stupid Republicans that there are 400 million guns in this country and a lot of increasingly PISSED off people. Republicans have cut veterans benefits AND mental health benefits and medication. Keep up the stupid.

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Dina Bacon's avatar

They will definitely regret making people suffer and more desperate. Desperate people do desperate things 😪

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Jeneba's avatar

Why did Murkowski cave? She is a traitor to the interests of ALL Americans.

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Linda's avatar

She's a republican and they are corrupt to the core.

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Marc Klein's avatar

She didn't. She just made sure her state was taken care of before voting yes

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Dee's avatar

The parliamentarian got rid of that. She still voted yes! 😡

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Keifer's avatar

I just emailed the biotch. GOOGLE: contact Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

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Shelley Ratcliffe's avatar

Someday dump should tell us who exactly are the “a lot of people” he’s always talking about

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Cathy Delia's avatar

He has no idea what he is saying anymore. Every time he gets in front of the cameras it's nothing but a performance. His presidency is like some reality horror show.

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Ale G.'s avatar

He doesn’t know himself. He lies as usual. He’s the one.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Non-white, ill, disabled, old, people he doesn't like, political enemies, Democratic voters, non-Christians, reporters, anyone who doesn't kowtow sufficiently.

See: Nazi Germany.

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Shelley Ratcliffe's avatar

In this case I was referring to his “a lot of people are saying” that he says constantly

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Someone Else's avatar

That is a plastic tent with no visible air movement in the middle of the Florida Everglades. That is extreme punishment to immigrants AND those tasked with guarding them. This is designed to create such an uncomfortable environment that violence and human rights violations are guaranteed.

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Janice Darling's avatar

they get their jollies off on torture and violence and cruelty and bullying. so this facility is going to be right up there with Guantanamo -- who is going to come supervise and make sure the sadistic guards don't get their way? Who is going to give a cup of water, who is going to salve the hundreds of mosquito bites that will plague everyone every night, who is going to hear the cries, the moans, the crack of the whip. This is the first concentration camp, mark my words.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Slow murder by intent.

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TB's avatar

Man FUCK these performative ass clowns! They'll screw us over WATCH AND SEE

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JillDiane's avatar

So Lisa wants someone else to take the blame. 🙄 I hope it’s not over, but the corruption is so rampant, I expect most of the 20 will cave.

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