‘I plan to wear a bikini’: Senate Republicans mock changes to dress code
‘I plan to wear a bikini’: Senate Republicans mock changes to dress code
The new dress code, implemented by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, will allow Sen. John Fetterman to wear his trademark casual attire like hoodies and shorts on the Senate floor.
The candid reviews of the new rules, which went into effect Monday, even included mockery from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who joked to reporters that she planned to “wear a bikini” on Tuesday.
Susan “I believe the president has learned his lessons” Collins will have to wear bikini with pearl necklace, just to clutch the pearls at every GOP hypocrisy
Still, she's one of the few Republicans that did vote to impeach Trump. As someone that is left leaning, I interpreted her comment as a joke more than a mockery of the change. She's one of the few alright Righties overall, tbh.
She still Caucuses with them so it is hard to give her a pass. The GOP actively makes life harder for non wealthy, ignoring their ongoing hard-on with letting the planet burn.
I find republicans completely unfunny whenever they attempt it, but if she meant this as a joke, it is a damn good one.
Edit: vocab
Can't wear hoodies and shorts but crickets about giving handjobs and vaping around children
Technically, that was in the House of Representatives, but your point stands
Technically, the perp is in the House, silence is still coming from both House and Senate GOP.
She poped out a whole tit.
Ultimately in a democracy I want my representation to feel like a representation of folks like me. If you want to wear a suit to work that’s great, but maybe us rust belt democrats want someone who’d rather dress like a union steward to go represent our interests. Senator Fetterman in his hoodie looks exactly like the sort of person you’d expect to represent Pennsylvanians.
Also maybe just maybe, I care more about the quality of their work than what they wear doing it.
Also maybe just maybe, I care more about the quality of their work than what they wear doing it.
I wish I could get someone to explain this to my boss. Me wearing a collared shirt on camera isn't going to make me do a better job, and if you think that then you don't know what the hell I'm doing all day.
But they need to look/feel important /s (but maybe not sarcasm?)
You should read the reddit comments on the threads about this. They read very similar to your sarcasm, but are serious.
100%
This is peak ok Boomer here.
Nah. You can't blame this one on boomers. It's fascism.
Fascists just love uniforms! Want to get them all excited? Tell them you want to plan a military parade where everyone has to wear their fanciest dress uniforms and march alongside tanks!
I mean, in fairness, have you seen how Fetterman fits into a suit and tie? He makes anything look like a hoodie and shorts. I don't mean that as a perjorative, they just don't make suits his size unless you want your Senator buying $5,000 tailored suits. Or worse... getting $5,000 tailored suits donated to them from special interests.
Literally championing style over substance.
Suits are costumes. The point is to make people look classy and dignified even if they're actually skeevy assholes.
Genuinely classy and dignified people look it no matter what they're wearing.
I agree the proctologist that I recently saw was very classy gentlemen, and was very polite. He oozed confidence and completely made me feel safe. He was dignified when doing my rectal exam, however him being naked being naked part did raise some questions.
The main questions was "What if I accidently shit all over him during my exam. Wouldn't cloths be useful in that situation?"
Edit: Fix grammar
Actually no, I've met some people who present themselves like slobs but are excellent human beings.
This would have been such an obvious slam-dunk for Republicans! Their base hates suits and ties (and the people who wear them). They could have started wearing blue jeans and sleeveless shirts and work boots to the Senate floor, but no, they need to feel like their jobs are important.
Fetterman looks more like the Republican base than anyone in Congress
Actually, the first time I saw I had the exact thought.
Fake cowboys everywhere...
"I think there is a certain dignity that we should be maintaining in the Senate" - Susan Collins
" ... she planned to 'wear a bikini' on Tuesday." - also Susan Collins.
Mean she said 'I think he learned his lesson' about Trump and the impeachment, she isn't exactly a goldmine of truth and honesty. I bet she doesn't even wear a bikini, I'd have more respect for her if she did.
she said ‘I think he learned his lesson’ about Trump and the impeachment
Collins also believed Brett Kavanaugh when he more or less assured her before his Supreme Court confirmation that he wouldn't vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
she isn’t exactly a goldmine of truth and honesty
However, she is a goldmine of idiocy.
There are greater issues than chiding her for using obvious hyperbole to emphasize the point she's previously made.
There are also greater issues senators should focus on than what senators wear, like literally solving any problem.
First time? She's addicted to contradicting herself
Forgot where I was for a second and thought you were talking about the author of The Hunger Games.
Damn, I was hoping that quote was from Mitch McConnell.
When asked for comment Mitch said
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Aides rush over and pull mitch off stage
What if he wears a bikini?
Senator, any veneer of decorum and seriousness went out the door when Cruz read Dr. Seuss on the floor.
Really? I thought it was when they were showing revenge porn of Hunter Biden
That was the House floor.
Lmao could you imagine if Republicans called for decorum in the House after that
Fuckin do it, be free
do it I'll toss that pic into an ai undresser! callin your bluff
If anything, not wanting to people to have more autonomy is very on brand
All form, zero substance with these people.
Go for it. I double dare you.
Yeah, why would that be bad, Susan? Let's see that beach bod. Put your money where your mouth is.
“But the corporate class might withdraw their sponsorship if we don’t all wear their traditional attire!”
You know you've been in office too long when you're complaining about a laxer dress code
Oh, it feeds in perfectly with their incredible uproar over Obama's "tan suit".
“I think there is a certain dignity that we should be maintaining in the Senate, and to do away with the dress code, to me, debases the institution,” Collins added.
Now can a man not have even his hoodie fellas?
I'd bet a lot of money some conservative said something similar about "certain dignity" when the first woman senator was elected.
As a Republican she knows a thing or two about debasing institutions.
And jack shit about dignity.
I think Senators should yell at each other like they do in the UK and (I assume) Australia. Representatives can take it even further and have straight-up food fights.
Fake appeals to decorum and "dignity" went out the fucking window in 2016. Let's just be honest about where everyone stands and what they want. The genie ain't going back into the bottle!
(I assume) Australia
You assume correctly. Senate Estimates is usually a bit more dignified than Question Time in the House of Representatives though. QT is just a straight up circus with the way the opposition behaves.
I can wear hoodies and shorts to my job too and it's great. Good for Fetterman.
Will she not just fuck off to the great beyond?
Feel free to do it. You'll freeze your ass off and be the laughing stock of the country.
Go for it, anything for the right to be taken less seriously than the left is a win.
They are. If Trump stands, it'll be a big victory for Biden, because Trump has made himself unelectable for swing voters.
Over here, the tories are heading for a wipeout. They've been telling us their shit smelled like roses, and it worked, up until it didn't.
This just means they can now openly wear their swastika pins.
“We be styling,” Tester said. “I don’t think it changes anything for me.”
Who gives a shit? As long as you're not indecent, wear what is comfortable
*opposition brought to you from the people who claim workers are dying to go back the office
She brings up a good point.
Why should she be allowed to make decisions?
How unfortunate, shes still here.
Wish she held such strong opinions as she voted to confirm the current Supreme Court.
“I think there is a certain dignity that we should be maintaining in the Senate, and to do away with the dress code, to me, debases the institution,” Collins added.
Oh Susan…that ship has sailed, boo.
Bitch doesn't have the tits to do it.
Fucking healthcare now
I mean, good for her but this is just a weird GOP fundraiser but hey whatever floats the GOP's boat, no kink shaming here.
and to do away with the dress code, to me, debases the institution,” Collins added, without even a hint of irony.
And that'd be the least revealing thing about Sen. Collins if she did.
"And the people did scream and attempt to put out their eyes. For it was gross, and an affront to the Lord." - Book of What the Fuck, Chapter 3 verses 25-27
Feck off.
Sure is elitist.
Hey...If she wants to wear a bikini, who am I to tell her no? Go for it. Unless of course, she doesn't actually want to and is just being intentionally obtuse like a old judgmental cunt.
Now I'm concerned.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Monday ridiculed Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's loosening of the upper chamber's dress code that will allow for recreation-like clothing on the Senate floor.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia called the relaxed rules “terrible,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he’s “not a big fan,” and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa simply said, “It stinks.”
The candid reviews of the new rules, which went into effect Monday, even included mockery from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who joked to reporters that she planned to “wear a bikini” on Tuesday.
Fetterman, a first-term senator who has often been seen wearing casual clothes around Capitol Hill following treatment for clinical depression this year, wore a suit to his swearing-in ceremony in January.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski lingered for a bit longer on the floor in her “travel clothes,” which included black pants, a quarter zip and sneakers.
Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, a self-described "styling guy" who will often vote from the edge of the Senate floor while wearing clothes he'll travel home in, said the relaxed rules were unlikely to change things for him.
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