Sen. LisaĀ Murkowski, aghastĀ at Donald Trumpās candidacy and the direction of her party, wonāt rule out bolting from the GOP.
The veteran Alaska Republican, one ofĀ seven Republicans who voted to convict TrumpĀ in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she āabsolutelyā wouldĀ not vote for him.
āI wish thatĀ as Republicans, we had ā¦ a nominee that I could get behind,ā Murkowski told CNN. āI certainly canāt get behind Donald Trump.ā
The partyās shift toward Trump has causedĀ MurkowskiĀ to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.
Asked if she would become an independent,Ā MurkowskiĀ said: āOh, I think Iām very independent minded.ā And she added:Ā āI just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.ā
The Republicans explicitly want me dead. What is my incentive to not vote against them as hard as I can?
Why do you say that?
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/southern-states-pushing-forward-with
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/retaliation-texas-ag-paxton-demands
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-issue-new-government
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/west-virginia-bill-would-mandate
https://newrepublic.com/article/178576/republicans-reveal-end-game-fight-trans-kids
And, in advance of your reply, please donāt bother telling me the yellow liquid that smells like piss running down my leg is rain. Conversion therapy kills. Getting proper treatment saved my life, and they explicitly want to take that away from me. Address this rather than trying to explain it away, or just donāt waste both of our time. Iām sure you have more productive things to do than deny what I can plainly see.
WTF. I donāt know where to start.
I donāt understand whatās happening in the plains states. Itās like a tornado sucked out all their humanity. I hadnt seen that yet.
You lost me with pissā¦ š¤·
I actually have a lot of empathy for people who are shit on. I donāt hate you or think you should have to feel that way.
The piss comment is a reference to an American idiom. I guess they missed that one in your training.
Training?
A reference to the phrase, ādonāt piss on my leg and tell me itās raining,ā ie, I can see what is happening in front of me. And theyād implement this shit on a federal level if they could; there were 40 such provisions they tried to get into the recent budget bills. The Twitter caucus has decided that I am an abomination, that my existence as myself makes me a pedophile, and that pedophiles deserve to be killed. The rest of the party is generally apathetic towards this, and will let them run the show on such matters if they are in an unassailable position. I thought John McCain was someone who I could have voted for in 2008, but he was the last Republican who was even remotely there; even the Republicans who managed the absolute minimum bar of recognizing a coup attempt when it tried to hang them, went along with the program the vast, vast majority of the time, right up until the doors were being hammered on by an angry mob.
I actually mentioned Bush/McCain because they were no where near as bad as now. Voting R wasnāt as scary then.
Can do it now, now itās a coup, like you said.
So yeah, given this, in what sense is it realistic or reasonable to not vote for the person with the better chance of beating them, IE, the democrat. I donāt love that I have to bet my life, and the lives of lots of others, on a keynesian beauty contest, but Iām not going to be dumb and throw the contest just because I donāt like it. Why would you want to persuade people to do that?