On today's episode of FAFO

July 2, 2025

Lisa Murkowski caught the Katy and left the country a mule to ride. The beloved Senator, predictably, caved and her vote was instrumental in passing the Billionaire Boys’ Bill in the Senate. And if you’ve seen the picture of her face as she’s exiting the Senate chamber, she realizes what she’s done. She looks like when the guy “accidentally” tries to slip it into the wrong hole. Whoops. Or she was having a really bad acid trip. But it’s okay that they passed the bill which will blow up the American economy, really. She’s not worried about voting for it—after other Senators carved out exemptions for her state to sweeten the deal (which were promptly taken out because they didn’t pass the Byrd rule). Murky passed the buck to the House, saying “My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet." Yeah, my hope is that you get some guts. They’re free, even to one so morally bankrupt as yourself. Still, she’s serving some Nancy Pelosi “We have to pass it to know what’s in it” Affordable Care Act realness.

Last month, in a town hall in Cordova, AK, she said “Many of us are looking at that [bill] and saying, it makes no sense to put a greater burden on the most vulnerable in our communities when it comes to health care and access to health care. I have made clear very early on that we cannot move forward with a bill that makes cuts to Medicaid.”

Murky later explained that she wants the House to do, I don’t know, whatever they’re going to do to it and return it back to the Senate so that she can vote for it again. Thing is, she said that she realized that voting “no” would kill the bill, and that “There is a tax impact coming forward. That's gonna hurt the people in my state." Those poor, unfortunate souls. In pain, in need. But she voted for it anyway; though if she’d voted “no” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) would have had to vote “yes” which she cannot do because she’s up for re-election in the midterms. There is something seriously wrong here. Some Republicans do seem to be frustrated with the system they helped engineer, and the man they put in place to rule over them, but they expect everyone else to do the heavy lifting rather than grow a spine and stand up to the mendacious moron in the Oval Office. Stand up to him and he backs right down, but they’re all so afraid and if you’re that scared of shit, get the fuck out of politics and public service.

And what will Murky tell her constituents? What will she say to the 237,000 Alaskans –half of whom are children on Medicaid? I’d like to help you, son, but you’re too young to vote. What will she say to the 68,300 people receiving SNAP benefits and who will now go hungry? What will she tell Alaskans when the 31 rural health clinics close? Blink twice if you need help. Are they holding your family hostage, forcing them to watch OAN 24 hours a day and making the women wear those weird fundie dresses while the men monitor each other’s porn-viewing habits and carve “live, laugh, love” signs? She did get a provision that delays the requirement that states with high payment error rates start contributing to the cost of food stamp benefits as well as allowing Hawaii and Alaska to waive all work requirements due to high unemployment rates. And an increase in tax deductions for whaling boat captains.

Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk,

Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk,

Might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread,

May be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-size bed

But you’re gonna have to serve somebody

Well, it might be the Devil or it might be the Lord

But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.

And now is the time on Sprockets when we move down the eastern seaboard to the $450 million Alligator Alcatraz, the nation’s first concentration camp since Executive Order 9066 (that’s the one that sent Japanese-Americans to camps like Manzanar in 1942), which is already flooding. Donnie Demento gave a press conference there, standing in front of cages. Literal cages. Like the old LA Zoo-style cages (look the old LA Zoo up on Google maps and check out the pictures. Creepy as fuck and yes, I’ve been there. Very bad vibe.)

But back to our brand-new concentration camp. It’s right in the middle of the Everglades, with tents and cages underneath them, built with FEMA funds in about eight days and won’t that be fun when the next hurricane devastates Florida and no one can rebuild anything. Here’s what the demented one had to say in his “Gulf of America” hat, standing next to Florida Governor Ron DeSatan and Cruella de Vil (puppy killer Kristi Noem, cosplaying some sort of Bass Pro Shop hooker knockoff Barbie):
[gesturing to a cage] “Biden wanted me in here, he wanted me, didn’t work out that way, he wanted me in here, that son of a bitch.”

When asked about his 2018 suggestion of putting alligators in the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing, he said “Well, I was thinking about that, I must say, it was meant more as a joke but the more I thought of it… they were actually crocodiles, crocodiles from Africa, they are a step beyond. But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it, a lot of people think we should do it.”

I don’t know, kittens. Sounds more like Alligator Auschwitz. I hate to wish a hurricane on people but… hurricanes, I’m rooting for you because a good one can just scour that shit off the land completely.

All his followers are blind. Too much heaven on their minds.

That’s all I have for you today, kittens.