I still want the story of how several Repubs seemed to be leaning to voting against RFKJr, & just about the whole Intel committee knew Gabbard is a national security threat, but they all folded, & Warner & Gillibrand said Repubs had been threatened & were afraid & should go public RE the threats - ThreadSky

danahoule.bsky.social • 8 days ago

I still want the story of how several Repubs seemed to be leaning to voting against RFKJr, & just about the whole Intel committee knew Gabbard is a national security threat, but they all folded, & Warner & Gillibrand said Repubs had been threatened & were afraid & should go public RE the threats

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djl.bsky.social•8 days ago

Same.

captainvoyager.bsky.social•8 days ago

Because WE Failed to put enough pressure on them early enough - we haven't been involved enough, long enough, intensely enough. Time to take responsibility as Americans.

talos-xliv.bsky.social•8 days ago

You'll have to wait for the inevitable flood of self-serving books that will come tumbling out after Trump is defenestrated from office (one way or the other) and in prison . . . or dead.

ETA: approximately T-minus 10 years.

scottlgreer.bsky.social•8 days ago

My guess is they were threatened, primarily by Elon Musk’s money and platform. Which would make last Tuesday matter quite a lot.

arthurzin.bsky.social•7 days ago

Well, if he wants to govern like a mob boss, then he needs to be subject to the potential backlash that happens when criminals go to war with one another.

dotdotdot123.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'd bet the story will be that their lives weren't threatened, but their place at the wingnut trough was.

These greedy Republican pigs literally sold the country out.

mrsdewinter.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is not a productive approach. I think it's more sensible to take Warner and Gillibrand at their word. To assume everybody's lying and hiding ulterior motives is nutty and leads nowhere good.

dotdotdot123.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or we can stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt when they could have ended all this in 2021, could end this tomorrow, and when they have been constantly lying for years now.

Republicans in Congress own this. They could stop it whenever they'd like. They refuse to.

jackrosenthal1954.bsky.social•7 days ago

I want to know why Senate majority leader #JohnThune as well as the rest of the GOP senate did not believe #CarolineKennedy and the rest of the Kennedy family.

lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social•7 days ago

I really want to know what got Murkowski & Collins to vote to confirm Kennedy. I thought for sure they’d oppose him. Definitely thought better of them.