Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
The GOP has exploited this and every single one of the weaknesses in our system.
I know none of the resistance groups proposed this, but since the passing of the killing Americans bill has passed the senate, I think starting a prolonged general strike 7/4/25 until the orange plague the GQP Congress & SCOTUS members are removed/replaced might be appropriate now!
Now another state because of their elected officials should be boycotted. Bye, Alaska. Be sure to thank feckless Murkowski, who wanted to save her seat, not her constituents that voted her in time after time knowing this about her.
At least the parliamentarian threw out the carve out. Alaskans will be as stuck as the rest of us and will know why.
I thought they gave a new deal after that...
Really? I wouldn’t be too surprised.
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Thank you!
Pretty rotten thing to do
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Because they literally do not care about democracy. They do not care about representation except as it affects their jobs. If we could just skip future elections now, they'll be fine with that.
DC is DC on purpose. It was never intended for statehood.
#ImpeachMurkowski
16 million Americans will lose their healthcare. 2 million citizens in Florida will lose their healthcare. Senators Rick Scott & Ashley Moody ARE 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THIS TO FLORIDA. 1/8th of this - CATASTROPHIC - National Damage was done to Floridians. Call them: 202-224-3121.
And here I was under the impression that the carveouts for her state were stricken by the parliamentarian.
Apparently the carveouts were broadened to just enough states to avoid striking. How convenient!
For those who voted for RNC candidates, this is learning the hard way.
This is why the old guard in the DNC needs to go. They are NOT fighting for the people. Many of them team up with the RNC because they get their money from the same corrupt sources.
Republicans do something evil, and your response is to attack Democrats? Hmm.... seems like a Trump supporter response
🤣. You have to do better than that man. Dems never think in terms of the long game. SMH. Some Dems like the Repugnants were on the take and did half measures that didn’t improve most American’s material situations, so they lost to a clown. Republicans are not doing half measures.
You think its trumpy to criticize 3rd way capitulation and corporate capture of MANY Democratic politicians in the US? Bipartisan, "status quo is going fine," messaging lost a chunk of the Dem's own, formally reliable, base voters this last fall.... www.socialeurope.eu/yesterday-to...
When you keep focusing on the Democrats, you help the Republicans. Focusing on the Democrats is what the Republicans and their allies want you to do; to keep blaming them for the situation they have no power to control. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good, but this propaganda makes it so
They had power before and chose to do half measures. They lost, and now look, Republicans aren’t doing any damned half measures. Their taking everything that’s not nailed down and in some cases their taking that too. Progressives seem to be the only ones who know their in a fight!
They didn't have the power. Once again, your comments show no understanding of civics, and help Trump.
🤣I taught civics, so…….🤣. Okay man you know everything. You got it. You know exactly how the game works and why the Dems lost in the first place. SMH. I’m done.
"When you focus on your offense, you help the other team's offense!" Maybe we need a good defense and a good offense? And maybe it really is possible to have both? This is a "go big or go home" moment in history. Let's live up to it and think big.
the perfect should not be the enemy of the good; this line of thinking is what put Trump in power, and it continues to help him
Who said anything about perfection? No politicians or humans are going to be perfect. But we can hold multiple thoughts at once. We can decry Trumpism as evil while we also ask our (dem) representatives to respond accordingly. One does not hinder the other. They are complimentary. And necessary.
"Lately, I'm seeing the same old tired lectures of “there is never going to be a perfect candidate, so you need to shut up and get behind the person we give you.” ... walterrhein.substack.com/p/how-our-ac...
...."I think that argument, all by itself drives a wedge into the coalition we need before it even starts to form. The other side of this argument is that there's never going to be any “perfect” activism. We need to ramp up our tolerance and recognize how many people out there are potential allies."
Lol, good luck with your strategy that focuses on policing the behavior of random potential Dem voters online by calling them Trumpers.
when all you do is circle in on and shoot at Democrats, instead of focusing on who is doing the evil (the GOP), you are helping Trump. That's all.
Your argument is the firing squad should be aimed at frustrated Dem voters instead.
It's not the dem voters, it is people like you telling the dem voters to be firing at the dems instead of the GOP... you are just helping Trump, that's all you are doing
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No one can even discuss voting in Dem primaries or anything, that would be handing a propaganda win to MAGA.
……and because of that, those Democrats refuse to fight. As a matter of fact some would rather switch, than fight. Those corporate moneys and kickbacks are making them bend to their corporate overlords. The old guard needs to go!
Zero Democrats voted for this bill in the Senate. I get what you're saying, but put blame where it's due this time.
This is happening because the they (the Democratic establishment) didn’t fight hard to protect workers before this even happened. When you don’t do anything to affect people’s material situation in any meaningful way, you get Trump, and what’s happening right now. They really fight progressives.
Murkowski got carveouts and every GOP Senator who didn't, knows she did and knows they didn't. Every last one of them sold out their own constituents. They all knew this bill would hurt their people, and they all voted for it anyway
How is it legal for one state to get solar, wind and EV tax credits but not all?
This bills ends all federal tax credits for clean energy?! Why? Just hate humanity and the idea of a better future?
Somewhere on the spectrum of good and bad faith, they don't think climate change is real, or they don't think it's manmade. So they think those credits are a waste of federal money. How earnestly they believe that, I can't tell
An old friend in a very red state recently told me the planet is in a cooling phase. The GOP war on education has paid off in dividends. These politicians want to Harvard Law, I expect they know the truth and simply do not care. Greed is their only God.
Greed on their parts, stupidity on Trump’s.
She's still not sleeping well tonight.
Gonna have win a lot purple and red senate seats to have a chance at making DC, Puerto Rico, US VI, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands states…if they want to be states that is.
Puerto rico is trending towards independence the independence party. They had their 1st 2nd place finish since 1952
Yup. My caveat “if they want to be states” mainly applies to PR. I don’t have much information on whether the other 4 territories would like to be states. If anyone can link any studies or polls done in those areas, I would be very interested in them
Yeah it’s all broken. Time to burn it all down and rebuild it
It’s so wrong that DC still has no representation — they too are Americans. Colonists fought the Revolutionary war because they fought against taxation without representation.
Why hasn't there been legislation to make Washington, D.C. a state so they would have representation?
The DC rep introduces a statehood bill in the House, what, maybe every year or so, but GOP blocks it
Maybe after midterms Dems will have majority in House & Senate and pass it .
Sadly, a majority doesn’t do it. You need 60 votes in the Senate or the courage to kill the filibuster
“No taxation without representation.”
She is a despicable wimp!
Merge the Dakotas.
DC and Puerto Rico statehood needs to be a central part of the Democrats plan (in the case of Puerto Rico, the islanders must vote on their fate, either independence or statehood but not status quo.
Also, US Virgin Islanders should be part of the Caribbean state along with Puerto Rico.
The fucking audacity of her accessible healthcare/mammograms post on her TikTok page in the same week she voted to strip healthcare for MILLIONS!
what a fucking bitch
Yikes
😡 it does seem crazy to me that so many people in the US lack full representation.
... anyone wanna give odds on whether those carveouts actually happen? This administration lies and lies And they pay no particular attention to what money is supposed to go where I'm sure they'd love double-crossing this particular snake
Among the many mistakes Democrats made when they had the trifecta was that they did *NOT* make a push for D.C. statehood. It's good politics and good policy, and the only hurdle they would have had to clear might have been Sinemanchin. Not an insignificant hurdle, but still worth trying.
Pretty sure the idea was floated and Sinemanchin were an absolute no, as you suggested.
Ripe for a Tea Party moment. Make history DC!!
There's no reason for the Senate to exist today. It's a relic of the aristocratic past. The Senate was "styled" after the House of Lords in the UK, the upper chamber of their parliament. We don't need them. Expand the House of Representatives to 1 member for every 100,000 people.
Until very recently, the split Congress made me think "oh, he's just a Rep, he can get away with those shenanigans" and "oh, she's a senator. She'll act like one" but I really can't say that anymore
Given the US population is 343.6 million, a good representation would be 1 member of Congress for every 300,000 people. That would be 1,143 members of our newly reformed single chamber Congress.
This new Congress could have 3-year terms and be staggered (not unlike the current Senate) so as not to have a massive election every 2 years. Maybe.
Yes, it’s probably an aristocratic relic. Part of the idea was that their longer terms would serve to moderate the House. In the early years they were appointed by state legislators, not directly elected by the people. Staggered 3 year House terms might be good even if the Senate didn’t change.
I don't disagree with this. AT ALL.
We would have had that but--Manchin and Sinema. Thanks, Chuck.
Shameful
I hope to God Lisa McCloskey chokes on that s***
That bitch sold out America!
This clearly spells out a dysfunctional democracy.
If Americans removed money from elections, the republican party would not exist. The added benefit, they would probably give DC representation as the republicans would no longer have to hide their Rent Boys.
This is exactly what we get when the rich own all three branches of government. Eat the rich, ban the wealthy. #project2029 Join us now.
DC deserves representation. The House needs to be rebalanced. Every state gets two senate seats, but the House should grow to reflect the population.This bill never would've advanced had that been the case.
Same for Puerto Rico. And why were a North and a South Dakota needed? Why has it always been accepted that Republicans cheat to make up for unpopular policies?
Sorry to tell you this that's not going to happen. Not what the way politics are trending in Puerto Rico. The party in favour of statehood is in a free fall and the independence party is on the rise. After their first second place finish since 1952 they probably will win in 2028
DC would be better off as Canada's 11th province (or 4th Territory). Puerto Rico too. Representation (including Senate), healthcare, language rights, no masked kidnapping squads...
Puerto Rico needs to forge its own path. Also Puerto Rico used to have universal healthcare the prostatehood party destroyed it back in 1993 Rather than address the budget issues
Thx for that healthcare history. I agree PR should forge it's own path, but I repeat that they would be better off as Canada's 11th province than what they have now.
Its the worlds oldest colony. Its needs to listen to its great patriots of old
seriously - canada has long had flirtations w Turks and Caicos - plenty of us would happily snowbird to Puerto Rico and skip Florida all together
Oh Puerto Rico would do very well in terms of tourism and investment as a Canadian province. Muy bien. #AdelanteBoricua
I would imagine at least 4 Senators, 4 MPs, plus a provincial legislature.
If I lived in DC, I’d be so pissed off. This is the quintessential taxation without representation. DC statehood is a must!!
It's called the united states. No carve-outs.
Why do we always put this on Murkowski to be the one vote to save our nation? Go bother some of those other Republicans who sit back safely while she’s out there taking the heat. My Senator does not owe you anything. If people wanted to avoid this mess they should have voted for Democrats in 2024.
"Your" senator owes us exactly what every other elected representative owes us - preserve, protect and defend the constitution. Period. Murkowski gets the blame she should by being so hypocritical and wishy-washy but then sides with Trump. Almost every time.
Murkowski voted to convict Trump. If her cowardly colleagues had joined her, there never would have been another Trump presidency. She didn’t renege on her oath. This budget bill isn’t unconstitutional, it’s just bad policy. Murkowski did right by Alaskans & she doesn’t owe you anything.
Read the constitution - against all enemies, foreign and MAGA. Her "deer in the headlight" look when asked about it was her conscience speaking. She voted to convict because she knew her party would ride to the rescue of the orange clown, and she could look liked she cared. She owes America.
When Murkowski voted to convict Trump, she received death threats from MAGA. The Republican Party censured her and Trump supported a MAGA candidate Kelly Tshibaka to run against her. We elected Murkowski anyway through ranked choice voting. She put her job and her life on the line to convict Trump.
She got death threats from her own party! Didn't that tell her anything about the people she who supports Trump? (Does she still think Jan 6 was "a tour" even tho she cowered like everyone else?) Yet she still bends the knee more often than not. She's no hero.
Murkowski never thought that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was “a tour.” She voted to convict Trump because of the attack on the Capitol. You don’t seem to understand the basis or process of the House impeachment and Senate vote for conviction.
Impeachment? Only what I was able to glean through 38 years of employment at the DoD. Stop trying to lecture those of us who have watched Murky and her entire party use the richest man in the world to take food and medicine from the poorest people in the entire world. His bill does more of this.
Senator Murkowski did not vote to convict Trump for sending people to the Capitol for a “tour.” It’s apparent that you were not paying attention during this pivotal time in our country’s history or you are purposefully misrepresenting the Senator’s position for some strange reason.
Who said she did? I'm talking about Trump's bill that adds trillions to the debt and rips food and medicine away from millions. Did you somehow miss the part where I talked about working for DoD for 38 years? You misrepresent my position by saying I'm not paying attention. That was my job.
I live here. Do you?
Murkowski and every Republican who voted for this bill deserve to feel the same pain and devastation they singlehanded thrust upon those who pay for everything in this Government. The majority of us didn’t vote for this. No one is taking the majority into consideration.
She also subjected the 40M people in CA to it too.
States that barely qualify for 1 congressional seat should not have 2 senators.
That’s the whole point of the Senate—every state has equal representation, regardless of size.
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I have not purchased any of their products but I, like you (if given the opportunity) will NOT
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Murkowski represents 740k souls, 1/5 of 1% of US population, yet wields the representative *power* of 1% of the Senate. 50 GOP Senators represent a combined 143m people & 42 Democratic Senators represent 155m- Dems represent 8.5% more citizend yet wield 16% LESS votes, w/o counting DC’s 700k
Which is why Republicans will NEVER allow DC to get a senator, if they can help it!
She might be the worst of them.
Wadr Taniel, Senator "Frozen Tundress" received 💲PFP for her 💲QPQ ntm, its what 💲PAID-triots do..."ALWAYS"???
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, South and North Dakota have a combined population of about 5.5 million, and ten Senators, all R. Washington state has nearly 8 million and 2 Senators. We are being held hostage by the warped system. We fought wwii to end concentration camps; now we have to pay for them.
If not for the fact that the composition of the U.S. Senate were explicitly elucidated in the Constitution, it would otherwise be unconstitutional.
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying here, but to be accurate, we didn't know about the camps until after the war. And Americans didn't discover the first one. The Soviets stumbled across Majdanek in Poland during the night of 22 July. We entered WWII because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
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"We also witness the limits of what the Allies knew in late 1942. None of the names that evoke so much horror—Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno—appear in the text." And this is just one mention of how little we knew. Your source supports my view more than yours.
You wrote "we didn't know about the camps until after the war." That statement, as written, is clearly false.
And the quote that I just gave you from your own source says that 𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒔 was known about. I'm not going to argue on this anymore.
This Californian says "Yay. We win!" A little under 40 million of us get 2 Senators. 🤬
LA County, alone, has a population greater than 40 states.
Exactly! It's ridiculous. Without CA, the US would be in bad shape. We should be our own country, but we don't have an army. They do & they'd use it because the dictator would never let us go.
Without California, we wouldn’t have the rape den that is most of professional Hollywood, either. We would have less desert cities/metropolises devastating water tables with their grass lawns and golf courses needing to be watered daily, too.
Quit acting like “more populous” means “more valuable”. Signed, A Minnesotan who knows damn well “biggest economy” doesn’t mean a fucking thing when we live in a NATION.
Apparently we didn’t get all the Nazis the first time around. Sigh.
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I would rather no one have to kill anyone. The ideology needs to die.
Depends what you mean by 'get' them. Operation Paperclip sent a bunch of them to leading roles, so it could be argued that we 'got' those.
Good, sharp summary! Right on point!
Not only that, we have an absent, ineffective congresswoman.
She's a traitor to our country.
If and when DC is ready for statehood, it needs to be handled the same way the Dakota territory was made into a state(s).
If and when the Democrats rise up and defeat the MAGA party, what are the priorities in resuscitating our democracy?
There will be quite a few priorities: Increase size of SCOTUS Roll back tax cuts (change the code) Enact a true immigration bill Prosecute trump for treason (not forgetting the stolen docs) Prosecute every repug repub Prosecute ICE for human rights violations Reform and rebuild a republic for all
And make DC and PR states with representation
We don’t need two Dakotas. Honestly Wyoming, Montana and Idaho could be one state.
Northern Idaho needs some therapy tho.
The Dakota territory was split into 2 states as a historical compromise at the time. Not sure but I think it was about “slave states” vs free states. One was admitted as a slave state and the other as free. So insane to think they thought they could actually own other human beings, right?
While I agree DC should have Senators it would t have changed the outcome. The GOP let Collins vote no knowing they didn’t need her. If they did she would have voted yes and it would have been 51-51 with the DC Senators. Paul and Tillis were the only “true” GOP nos.
The next Time a Democrat is president he or she should just write an executive order making the district of Columbia a state. I mean, why not? Trump has shown us that you can basically do anything as president and nobody can do anything about it.
SENATE DISTRICTS WITH EQUAL TAX BASES! DECLARE SUPERSEDENCE!!!
What exactly are the carve-outs that Murkowski got, and what is so unique about Alaska to justify those carve-outs?
Taxation without representation is running rampant in the United States.
Only 10 states have populations greater than LA County. Our entire system is built on 19th century rotten boroughs, nothing close to real democracy. The US was built on slavery and a failure there, and then compounded by 19th century Republicans making states out of territories to pack the Senate.
Yet another reason why DC needs to become a state.
Exactly why they vote against it.
Think bigger, #AbolishSenate it's unrepresentative and gives us minority rule.
She’s a terrible person
I live in DC. Always fighting to be represented!
but if puerto rico also had senators, the bill still passes.
She must pay. Somehow.
Something, something...taxation without representation?
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Now you know why DC doesn't have senators.
I thought the Parliamentarian said No!!??? 🤔😡
I knew they would ignore her.
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California has the population like 20 of the red states put together....But we gotta give cows their votes
The fight does c statehood has Ben going on forever. I grew up there. Zero chance. Congress won’t give up that power.
Good lord, sorry for the autocorrect nonsense.
The entire thing is shameful. I never want to hear another puff piece about Lisa Murkowski, the “moderate.” She is who she is, and so is Susan Collins.
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Yet her state has one of the most on Medicaid and Snap so who was she helping?
End Trump, and dragnet principal Reichists and MAGA folds…
If Puerto Rico and DC had their long overdue votes, it wouldn't have passed.
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While MAGA's opinion on PR statehood may be based entirely on whether it serves their needs, the rest of us support statehood for PR and DC because we feel their people deserve representation. No litmus test, just democracy. I know, it's such a quaint concept now! 😂
the people in Puerto Rico don't agree. Not the young ones at least. According to the last polls 51.5% of voters under 45 want puerto rico to be a Sovereign nation this also coincides with the rise of the puerto rican independence party to its 1st 2nd place finish since 1952. They probly win in 28
I would think sovereignty would be absolutely devastating to PR. It would be Haiti in a year. The political corruption there is legendary and this would remove all constraints. Having representation in govt isn't something that people need to vote for or ask for. It should be something they have.
Statehooders are the most cartoonishly evil people in Puerto Rico they openly talk about how they want A mass Exodus of puerto ricans to turn it into a playland for rich white elites. Go back and look at the chatgate scandal that was in there. They killed free health care in 1993
Fascinating. No wonder the sovereign movement is growing in popularity. Corruption comes in so many flavors and yet always tastes so bitter.
That's not based in any sense of reality buddy. Who are the corrupt politicians state hooders The puerto rican independence party hasn't had a single politician busted on corruption since the party's formation in 1946.
Secondly citing Haiti ignores History because Haiti One it's independence through a bloody revolution destroying its economic sector and friends came back and impose a massive debt on them. Tell me how that's gonna happen to Puerto Rico
And last but certainly not least the independence camp of Puerto Rico is the only camp in Puerto Rico that can actually propose a real economic development plan the only thing statehood is can say is daddy America give us a bail out pasquines.us/2025/05/07/n...
we don't want your imperialistic annexation. you have done enough harm
Sovereignty is worth a referendum before statehood. "However, in the 21st century, the primary barrier to a meaningful discussion about resolving Puerto Rico’s colonial status is the statehood movement." thelatinonewsletter.org/p/opinion-pu...
Heard!
Does she realize there’s land that connects Alaska to Russia?
I was reminded today that her dad appointed her to her job, she wasn’t elected by Alaskans, she couldn’t be more undeserving of even having a vote and the fact that it’s a selfish act on her part means she deserves every bit of grief she receives
PR and DC should have been made states long ago
No. Two more GOP Senators would have voted for it. The “close” vote was all Kabuki. For instance, Collins voted to advance it out of committee but then voted against it because her vote wasn’t needed. The fix is in.
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Oh, what about the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, with a population of 3.235 million?
Her original carve outs were refused inclusion by the Senate parliamentarian . She did get this though!
Thanks for recognizing that DC had NO VOTE on this big ugly bill and will feel all the hurt. #DCStatehood
that’s WHY it s not a state
Excellent point.
More for me, none for thee, yet I remain concerned. Blow it out your ass, hypocrite!
I'm happy to talk about carving off most of D.C. to add its population to a state. But the reason for not putting the seat of the federal government in a state is sound and has not changed.
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Too bad Biden and the Dems didn’t do anything about that when they had the chance. Anyone asked Manchin or sinema what they think about all this?
It was just their role to play. They think what they are paid to think.
Way past time for DC to be able to vote
isnt the total US population like 350 million ppl?
Democrats will never have the chutzpah to add states. Even if they ever have the votes.
Taxation without representation
If Casey won Pa this bill wouldn’t pass.
A lot of IFs. We can argue hypotheticals that IF x didn’t lose this bill never happens. I just hope their incompetence leads to not enforcing must of what they voted for, and for the worst consequences for them. I’m voting for the meanest SOB who promises to jail most of these MFers
Wasn't there some chant about "representation" when we broke off from England? Yesterday's Red Coats are today's Red Hats.
My thoughts exactly!
Tired: make DC a state. Wired: make DC 5 states.
Well stated!!
And the electoral college needs to go.
Murkowski is a coward and a traitor.
She sold out to look good for the people of Alaska ! She could have voted for all of us , which would have been for Alaska too !
We owe it to ourselves to fight—for us, for our children, and for our country. Wake up and take action before it's too late. The bill’s failure will empower us, turning setbacks into strength. Every distraction from this administration will only fuel their downfall and unite us further.
It’s true, “nobody” will get kicked out—except for Zella, Emani, Joe, Jane, Maia, Aisha, Victor, Bernie, and the rest of us. The lies we tell ourselves. We are the Americans the conservatives are trying to erase!
Alaska is the land of entitlement.
Somebody should ask her how she's going to spend her 30 pieces of silver.
She didn’t get money for Alaskans, she got money for people doing business in Alaska.
Add PR which has voted to be a state. Even though it would raise their taxes and we're really swinging. DC already pays the taxes. They just don't get representation.
She’s a coward.
I thought they got tossed by the parliamentarian.
Too many of us (Black people).
Then went on to cry about how bad the bill she voted for was, and hoped the House would fix the problems in it.
...sounds like more GOP biliary disease...
Even after the parliamentarian struck off her carve outs.
Biden should have worked with Congress to secure statehood. I’ll never understand why this didn’t happen.
excruciatingly American. I got mine, so fuck you
Then why didn’t the Dems push hard for DC when they were in power? Or SCOTUS reform? They are useless.
Or, you could move out of the only 5 square miles in America that has been an apolitical zone for 200 years.
But she voted for it even after the carve outs vanished, which makes her a pretty clear double dealing traitor.
OK, we have a senator who has gone on record that she might consider switching parties, but all you influencers are gonna hate on a senator who did nothing other than pursue concessions for her constituents. If all the rest of the senators have done that : the bill would’ve died .
If I was a senator I would shun her. Myself or my staff would speak to her or her staff ever. Turn our backs. I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.
DC residents need to sue for taxation without representation.
The Senate is a pro-slavery institution.
DC should get the tiebreaker vote, not the VP
Alaska has a population of about 740,000. She just vote to kick about 180,000 people off Medicaid in the state. Most, 55% are elderly. But don’t worry, I’m certain there are excellent opportunities for them to meet the new work requirements.
I thought she got a carve out again after re-wording it for Senate Parliamentarian. And then bragged she was only doing her job of representing her State but it was a hard vote to stick it every other state.
My understanding was the carve out was only for whale captains. Of course I could be wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time.
The Portland metropolitan area has more people than the entire State of Alaska, and Portland isn’t a large city.
It is, at its essence, exactly what the American Revolution was fought against.
Exactly.
We shouldn't forget there are a lot of Dems who oppose the DC Statehood bill in Congress. Even if we gain a majority in the House we still have to overcome these members' opposition: Cuellar (TX) Davis, Donald (NC) Golden (ME) Gonzalez (TX) Pappas (NH) Perez (WA) Ryan (NY) Suozzi (NY)
Yes. I understand why it wasn’t a state originally. But at this point DC has a population larger than Vermont and Wyoming and close to Alaska and North Dakota. Something needs to change
The people & soil which became tyranny DC were in a full state for 25 years 1776-1801, & in a colony for 144 yrs 1632-1776. Enslavers started tyranny over DC to forbid objecting to oligarch’s 3yr mutiny of Congress 1780-1783 refusing to pay Army, & forbid 3 day PA Nat Guard refusing to murder Army.
Confederates have been at it for awhile…
Next Dem Senate if there are elections should make it happen. Enough playing around . Obama prob could have made it work when he had a large majority.
Including a $50,000 tax break for WHALING Captains. We're okay with that, right? #LisaMurkowski
A $50k tax credit to buy harpoons! Unbelievable.
I don't know if it was specific to harpoons but yup, the operation got $50k extra for killing whales.
That's what they said today in committee. It's a tax credit for harpoons, which was previously $10k and now they can claim the credit up to $50k.
Well, that was mighty white of them.
I didn't know the details. Thanks!
Thanks, bitch
Only if they're Native. /gen
Only indigenous hunters are eligible? If so, I'm good.
I meant to say it should be that way. Doubt it actually is.
I'll check tomorrow.
I was at the last of the public meetings about the Makah whaling trials back in high school. Seeing the way random white people treated the Makah representatives changed me for life. I'm white, but I try hard not to act like it 🙂
We love taxation without representation, don’t we folks?
Yep The Senate and the SC and the electoral college Governed by a minority that knows they are a minority and shrinking every day… so they are resorting to totalitarianism to keep in power Hard not to see apocalyptic scenarios unfolding…
moral bankruptcy
Puerto Rico too.
No thank you
She’s a ghoul like the rest of them.
And WANTS statehood. Voted for it! Always like to point that out:)
GOP will never allow D.C. to be represented as long as they are able. The GOP hates democracy, and knows D.C. will vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
She done everybody dirty today.
D.C. and Puerto Rico deserve to have Congressional representation, and statehood.
Nobody wants it. That's why the governor has to bribe kids with more money than their parents make in a month to write about why Puerto Rico should be a state
Thanks. I didn’t know this.
She's A Succubus
If pigs could fly.
DC should be a STATE. It needs control of its National Guard AND its budget. That would give it two Senators and a voting Representative. IMO, every incorporated City with a population larger than Wyoming should have its own Senator. There are 30 such cities.
It's also past time to enlarge Congress. How is one congressperson supposed to represent an average of 700,000 people and do a good job?
Well, half the senate is equally to blame, not just Murkowski
Almost like Taxation without Representation.
How is that not a bribe to Murkowski in exchange for her vote? How is that equal protection of the laws?
Look, someone has to be there for the whaling captains. 🙄
but she AGONIZED before doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing
How’s that moderate Republican nonsense working out eh?
Accommodating a state due to a disability is the decent thing to do. Now more blue states and unrepresented people will pay more taxes to benefit people who actively villainize them.
That is by (GOP) design.
The Senate is built in gerrymandering.
I wonder what they threatened her with to vote yes.
They put tax breaks for whalers in the bill for her. That's it. That's the bribe.
DC has a bigger population than the state of Wyoming
By far! DC is about 9x Wyoming.
DC has about 20% more people than WY
Oops. I was looking at a source that gave the entire metro area. 😳
And DC still seems to be missing the $1bn that was stolen from it by the House March CR
sounds like DC likes getting fucked since they have been putting up with this since when? why does CA have 12 percent of the population and only 2 percent of the senators? reform voting and campaign finance and then hang hitler
See also Puerto Rico, whose population is comparable to Arkansas.
Didn't her special carve outs actually get removed by the parliamentarian?
Some did but they managed to renegotiate to push some fisherman benefits through
Some yes, some no, from what I understand.
It’s time for some states to secede from this garbage “union”
Why do you think the GOP confederates did this?
I think it’s long overdue for DC to be given statehood
It was never due to do any such thing.
Don’t forget Puerto Rico meets all requirements for statehood and has voted for statehood repeatedly. Puerto Ricans should also have two Senators and a Representative.
In four state-wide Senate general elections Lisa Murkowski got 502,181 votes. One year winning with only 101,091... For Senate!!! Zohran Mamdani recently got 545,734 in a primary, not even a general, for a single city.
…another episode in the history of the inherently undemocratic Senate 2 Alaska Senators represent 740K people 2 California Senators represent 39.5M people 1 Senate vote in Alaska is worth 53 votes in California …& DC voters have NIL Senate representation😫 …inherently undemocratic
Your democracy is fucked. It was only a matter of time.
They have “taxation without representation” on the license plates. It’s insane.
And we've yet to get a President to add it to their tags.
Everyone in DC should register R and vote R in the next election. After that gets them representation, they can go back to voting for the sane party.
"Carve outs" Is that a new-fangled way of saying "bribes"?
Straight up pork.
Does she not remember that he lies😟
TRAITOR
I hope she can justify her decision in her mind. Me, Lisa Murkowski sold out our America.
Yep bsky.app/profile/capt...
Angry doesn’t even begin to explain my rage!! & utter disappointment!!
😡😡😡
Dems happily would support both DC and Puerto Rico as states but the GOP won’t budge on approval as it would disadvantage them electorally.
Interesting. Thanks for the input. What is the source of your two images? As you’ve piqued my interest, I found this article in the Puerto Rico Report from Nov. 2024 which offers a nuanced view. puertoricoreport.com/puerto-rico-...
Ahh to rule instead of to serve. Serene.
I respect Murkowski for looking after her constituents, however how she can sleep at night knowing she agreed to subject the rest of us to the tyranny of Trump’s bill is beyond the pale. Thanks Lisa (and the rest of the spineless GOP senators), we will not forget how you voted come primary time.
Her treachery will NOT be forgotten. Ever.
