this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
213 points (99.1% liked)

Leopards Ate My Face

6326 readers
524 users here now

Rules:

Also feel free to check out !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee (also active).

Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Murkowski openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from Trump, as she criticized his policies.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm also not holding me breath, but we also can't pretend that Trump 2.0 is not objectively much worse than Trump 1.0. He did some sketchy, asinine and hateful shit in his first term, but he's fully trying to be a dictator now and he's well on his way to getting there. He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it. And people are pissed, even republican voters. If ever there was a time for them to step up, now is that time.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

He's unilaterally making decisions that are wrecking the economy, trashing human rights, and he's blatantly breaking the law and ignoring the courts to do it.

The real problem here is that Trump was doing all of this in his first term too. He didn't face any consequences for it then, so it's hard to take the thought he'll see consequences for it now seriously.