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"But the people of Alaska, a famously Republican state, thought enough of her to put her back in office. They had a choice. That makes her the bona fide Republican senator from Alaska."

You're still not paying attention... Ranked choice put her there. I guarantee you if it had been straight up Republicans voting, Kelly Tshibaka would be serving in Washington, not Lisa.
 
I'm sure the Trumplodites find her common sense repugnant. But the people of Alaska, a famously Republican state, thought enough of her to put her back in office. They had a choice. That makes her the bona fide Republican senator from Alaska. If she was so reviled by all of Alaska Republicans for somehow sneaking on the ballot, they should have been able to put up a successful write-in candidate. I believe her trade mission to Canada is sanctioned by US govt, either Trump or Congress? Both are Republican.

I find it refreshing that Murkowski doesn't blindly vote straight party every time. Similarly I respect any Democrat legislator who votes his conscience (and his state's best interest) ahead of party line dictates. This blind partisan bullshit is killing democracy.

Once again I'd recommend a little research...

Alaska is indeed famously republican.. MODERATELY... with numerous D and Independent elected officials over the last 25 or so years..

Anchorage, and the specific district Murkowski represented when she was in the house, and lives in today is famously democrat and particularly liberal..

In fact, Anchorage as a whole swings pretty left and is at best a moderate R town when it occasionally has R mayors.. the current mayor is an "independent".. the last mayor was a D.. and the mayor before that was an independent...

Since 2003 (22 years) there has only been an R (moderate) mayor for 8...


your statement about her being a bona fide R and her trade mission to Canada being sanctioned... sometimes I find it fascinating how much drivel someone that claims to have a terminal degree spouts.. I wonder if you lack the ability to do research, or are just too lazy to do so, and just enjoy dumping bullshit as fact when there is no evidence to support it..

No, claiming to be an R does not make her an R.. as has been stated several times already in this thread, she was not on the R ticket in Alaska. The R party of Alaska refused to endorse her this last election. She is a defacto independent and does not caucus with the R party, and is now considering caucusing with the D party..

and no, the trade mission is not sanctioned in any way by Trump or Congress at large. She is traveling with Ron Wyden, a democrat (no surprise) that is actually leading the talks.. Wyden is a Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, that approved the visits (without higher approval from the House or anyone else). The committee chair, Senator Crapo (an appropriate name for a US Senator I believe! :) ) approved a group to travel to Canada after a group of very liberal D's went to Canada on their own back in May (and got nothing accomplished. This group is made up of more "moderate" or centrist D's... Maggie Hassan (D), Cortez-Masto (D), Wyden (D), and Murkowski (I).. Murkowski doing nothing more than tagging along for the ride.. which, by the way, is what non ranking and non position holding committee members do on these sorts of trips..

Murkowski, quite literally TODAY went to the press complaining how she got "played" by the R party (not her friends, and not her party any longer) on the Big Beautiful Bill..
 
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Murkowski, quite literally TODAY went to the press complaining how she got "played" by the R party (not her friends, and not her party any longer) on the Big Beautiful Bill..
Murkowski's current "relationship" with the Republican party goes back to 2010 when Sarah Palin and the Tea Party supported Joe Miller.
Murkowski went on the win the election with a write in campaign and she has openly operated as an "Independent" ever since.
 
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This is nothing new. My next door neighbor at Newport Beach, CA (in the late 1990s and early 2000s) used to pay tuition and expenses along with the use of a Porsche 911 of a college co-ed that lived with him. When one graduated, she'd pass him onto one of her friends. We used to joke that he had a scholarship program for UCI co-eds. :ROFLMAO:

To be honest that is not that much different than dating. You buy gifts, pay for travel and dates etc., etc..

If you decide to stick with just one, then you marry her to guarantee sole access and still keep paying.
I guess if you can’t get a beautiful woman because you’re attractive and/or you’re interesting and you can curl her toes, you can always buy the company of one. Pathetic and no game.
 
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Who does she caucus with again?


You better run and have the party correct the error on their website then.
Thank God for the Senate. The Senate insulates us against simple majority rule, as does the Electoral College. It’s no coincidence that Senators from two of the least populated states are Senate leaders.
 
you might want to do a little research... assigning homework to others when you clearly havent done any yourself is a bit ridiculous dont you think?

Murkowski may call herself a Republican.. that doesnt mean she actually is one any longer..

She doesnt caucus with the Republican party, the Republican party does not endorse her any longer, and as recently as 3 weeks ago she went public stating she was giving consideration to caucusing with the Democrats from now on..


During the Obama Administration she voted with D's 72% of the time..

During the Biden Administration she voted with D's 67% of the time.

Only Collins has voted left more often than Murkowski of all currently serving people that call themselves R's..

Even more interesting about Murkowski than her declaring herself a Republican when it is very clear that she much more often supports Democrat legislation actions is just what a total waste of breath of a Senator she actually has been...

Shes been in office since 2003.. in 22 years she has introduced legislation exactly ZERO times that has been passed into law..

It amazes me that AK continues to put her into office.. she literally has accomplished next to nothing in 22 years other than getting on TV to run her suck a couple of times a year about how much she hates whatever initiative the R party is taking..
She only wins because she sucks up to the “natives” and Anchorage liberals for votes.
 
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Trump's ambassador to Canada is striking out ... again. As Dutch ambassador during Trump's first administration, his racist comments (which he later tried to deny with lies) and catering (literally) to far right racist groups disgusted his host country. Then there was his tawdry racist stereotyping campaign ad when running for US senator in Michigan. Very handy at shooting himself in the foot. Now he's claiming Trump's 51st state rhetoric is a "term of endearment." Whaaat? Oh, and Canadians are "nasty" people for retaliating against tarrifs with travel and booze boycotts. So we are just supposed to take that bullying bullshit lying down? But of course the booze boycott has no effect on him. He brags on air about smuggling booze across the border undeclared. "They never check my car." Wow! Where does Trump find this trash? Oh yeah, he drained the swamp ... so he could mine the mud.



Edit: The "redirect notice" link will send you to the BBC News article re ambassador's fake "fake news" denial.
 
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Personally I think America should link Alaska to Washington state via BC. It makes total sense to do so. I can imagine Vancouverites being somewhat in opposition to the idea,however most would be far to medicated / stoned to offer meaningful resistance.

When Alberta joins the Union ,then Canada could well become the very definition of devide and conquer. Which was what Trudeau was trying to do all along.
 
Trump's ambassador to Canada is striking out ... again. As Dutch ambassador during Trump's first administration, his racist comments (which he later tried to deny with lies) and catering (literally) to far right racist groups disgusted his host country. Then there was his tawdry racist stereotyping campaign ad when running for US senator in Michigan. Very handy at shooting himself in the foot. Now he's claiming Trump's 51st state rhetoric is a "term of endearment." Whaaat? Oh, and Canadians are "nasty" people for retaliating against tarrifs with travel and booze boycotts. So we are just supposed to take that bullying bullshit lying down? But of course the booze boycott has no effect on him. He brags on air about smuggling booze across the border undeclared. "They never check my car." Wow! Where does Trump find this trash? Oh yeah, he drained the swamp ... so he could mine the mud.



Edit: The "redirect notice" link will send you to the BBC News article re ambassador's fake "fake news" denial.
Is it a strike out?

What is it we want from Canada right now that the US isn’t getting?

What is the ambassador doing that Rubio, his boss, doesn’t 100% support?

Lutnick and Bessent are both advocating even stronger measures to push Canada to open markets, which includes further tariffs.

All of the economic gloom and doom predicted on the economy as a result of taking positions that pushed Canada, Mexico, and the EU have proven false. The economy is booming.

And no one in the Trump administration cares about hurt feelings… not Carneys, not Canadian citizens, not yours..

It would appear the ambassador is doing exactly what his boss and the rest of the administration wants him to do.. keep putting the screws to the Canadian government… and if they don’t like it, screw them… if it hurts feelings, so what?

Rubio has pretty much said the same things Lutnick and Bessent has said.. open markets, or deal with the consequences… this isn’t the Biden administration anymore…

Bank of Canada reports a softer economy in Canada due to the shift in policy (albeit not sharply weaker)


While the WSJ, reports the US economy is trucking right along despite the issues with Canada

 
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No one in Russia will care.
Concur…

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…

Homey might have considered making multiple trips to Russia to check things out, maybe get to know some Russian families, think through the Russian job market etc before packing up and moving somewhere that he obviously read about but really didn’t know or understand anything about..

He clearly screwed himself and his family with his poorly thought out decisions..
 
No one in Russia will care.

And rightfully so. The only unfortunate portion of the story is that he drug his children into his nut job wife and his fantasy.

Similar to US basement dwellers joining ISIS to fight against the US. Are any of those still alive ?
Fortunately most of the young basement dwellers hadn’t bred yet.
 
"But the people of Alaska, a famously Republican state, thought enough of her to put her back in office. They had a choice. That makes her the bona fide Republican senator from Alaska."

You're still not paying attention... Ranked choice put her there. I guarantee you if it had been straight up Republicans voting, Kelly Tshibaka would be serving in Washington, not Lisa.
Ranked choice did not put her there. In every election since 2010 Murkowski would have won even if Alaska had retained first-past-the-post voting. In the last general election her other Republican opponent allowed on the general election ballot because of the change to ranked choice voting narrowly lost to Murkowski ... but Murkowski won the primary against her by more than 12,000 votes which is a lot in an Alaska election. But unfortunately, with new ranked choice voting it was not enough votes to eliminate the other Republican candidate because there was sixteen other candidates on the primary ballot (plus only one Democrat) who took enough votes to keep either candidate from getting more than 50% of the votes and eliminating her competitor from the general elction ballot. But Murkowski still won the popular vote. I have a feeling that her failure to tow the Trump line will reap big benefits for her in the next election.
See election results section in:
 
That 80% making $150 or less get into it thinking it will be easy money and find the hard reality that they have to actually work at it, the girls making big money have social media managers and constantly creating content.... just like there are many more women who try stripping and drop out because it's much more work and far less glamours than they imagined.

It's seen as the easy way to get the designer bags and high end cars they believe they deserve, but reality comes out and they drop out; the same can be said for the absurdly high income women have for dating, they largely want someone making $250K plus but fail to realize the limited number of men who make that much money.

So again it's not attention seeking, it's an attempt(more often failed than not) to take the easy way out to high income; as for your Chris Rock reference; you'd be surprised how many of those sugar babies and onlyfans models come from upper middle to high income families with good parents.....

Dated one graduate student in Austin, only to find out she was a sugar baby and seeing much older men because her surgeon father wouldn't buy her the Louis Vuitton bags and the new AMG Mercedes she wanted and a large swath of her socialite sorority sisters were doing the same.

My buddy is currently dating a legitimate beauty pageant queen that went to a large state university and I brought up the sugar baby thing to her and she fervently agreed....

"Oh yeah, I'd say almost a third of my better looking sorority sisters were doing that!"
honestly , why this post at all , didnt Dr, phill cover this. yea I know I dont have to read it
 
This is a rather pathetic story of one of the unintended consequences of the Russo/Ukraine war. The Huffman family were ordinary very conservative Christians from Texas, whose head of household spent far too much time on the bias confirmation edge of the internet. With respect to the war, it is a virtual domain heavily populated by pro-Russian bots, influencers, and propagandists. One of the propaganda messages often repeated there is that Putin and Russia are valiantly fighting against the LGBTQ plague sweeping Europe, the US, and, of course, Ukraine.

In one of the more tragic examples of non-critical thinking emerging from the conflict, Derek Huffman, the father, concluded Russia would be the ideal nation and culture in which to raise his family. For a time they chronicled their transition to the Slavic paradise on line.

Hoping to speed up the process of obtaining citizenship, Derek signed a contract with the Russian Army after being promised he would not be deployed to combat. Instead, he received the typical two-weeks of training (!!) and was deployed to the front and was assigned to an assault unit where he has subsequently vanished.

Not only is the family left without a husband and father, but they have received nothing in the way of compensation from the Russian government.

Thats just sad and dumb, reminds me of young women marrying ISIS FIGHTERS a few years back.
anyway I thot RUSSIA INVADED to stop the nazis, L O L
 

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