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Cowardice - Pub Senators Voting in Fear

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM.

  1. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    this is what the J6 releases were all about. Not only threatening to primary anyone that dared to vote against his nominations but having his proud boys threaten the lives of senators and their families.

    as a concerned citizen, not really sure what to do as I watch our democracy slide into an authoritarian state run by a drug addicted billionaire and a delusional narcissist.

    and now we have DC AG's threatening legislators for calling Musk a d*^&. how any reasonable person can continue to support this is beyond my understanding

    'Cowardice': GOP faces backlash after report suggests death threat may have swayed vote

    “In private,” Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman reports, “Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions.” “They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former Trump official told Sherman.
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    In his article at Vanity Fair, Sherman serves up numerous other examples detailing the threats of violence Republican lawmakers have allegedly been facing. On social media, he writes, “GOP Senators and House members are scared of being murdered by Trump supporters if they don’t support Trump. This is fascism in America.”
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    “Before Senator Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case against him in a bid to get G.O.P. leaders to scrap the vote altogether,” The New York Times reported last week, noting how Hegseth’s nomination had been “teetering on the brink of defeat on the Senate floor.”

    “Turning to a group of North Carolina lawmakers who were flying with him to survey storm damage in their state, Mr. Trump noted Mr. Tillis’s impending defection and posed a question: Which of them wanted his endorsement for a primary challenge to the senator next year?” the Times added.

    “Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan. 19, witnessed by two other people, that if she signed the statement testifying that she believed her former brother-in-law Pete Hegseth has an alcohol abuse problem and was abusive to his second wife, it would carry weight, and potentially move three votes-his own, along with the votes of Sens. Susan Collins (R., Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska),” The Wall Street Journal reported.
     
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  2. GatorTheo

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  3. g8orbill

    g8orbill Old Gator Moderator VIP Member

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    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
     
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  4. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    typical of the brilliance that you offer to every discussion

    democracy being taken over by fascism with threats of violence forcing senators to vote out of fear coming from the felons that your dear leader released and you find it amusing

    at this point, i guess one should expect it from you and your ilk. revel in the fact that i am forbidden to block you so must tolerate you but it is with disdain and loathing at this point
     
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  5. jjgator55

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    It must be terrible to be a republican living their lives afraid of their own shadows. I’m sure there was a time when there were real men in the Republican Party, but for the life of me I don’t remember when.
     
  6. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    there still are, look no further than Liz Cheney. Sadly, the republican party has been hijacked
     
  7. sierragator

    sierragator GC Hall of Fame

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    modern day brownshirts. it. quacks. like. a. duck.
     
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    Somebody needs to quit getting their news from MSN, I think you would sleep better at night without the fear they are filling you with.
     
  9. sierragator

    sierragator GC Hall of Fame

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    There you go again. The news outlet does not matter if the person or people in question said or did what they did.
     
  10. jjgator55

    jjgator55 VIP Member

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    I’m hearing that republican congresspeople still thinking it’s safe to have a town hall meeting are finding out there are a lot of pissed off republicans that FAFO. I understand they’re afraid for their lives if they cross Trump, but as of now it appears they also need to start fearing for their lives if they don’t cross him. As for me when the bad stuff starts happening to them I’m just going to sit back and laugh.

    Georgia congressman faces backlash at heated town hall - 41NBC News | WMGT-DT
     
  11. sierragator

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    Maybe a shellacking at the polls will snap them out of it.
     
  12. PITBOSS

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    maga Republican leaders abandon their principles out of fear of being primaried. Ted Cruz is a good example. trump humiliated his wife and besmirched his father, yet Cruz still groveled back to Trump. “Yes Dear Leader, anything you want”. Rubio has done a 180 on his core beliefs. it’s shameful.

    MAGA leaders are nothing like our Founding Fathers, who put the country first by signing the Declaration of Independence thereby risking their lives.
     
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