Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So it's not often that I call out individual people. I'm kidding. It's often that I call

out individual people who are doing things that are really terrible, terrible things that are going

to hurt broad swaths of the community. It's not every day that you get blessed with the platform.

And so since I have one, I think it's just important that in addition to informing people about what's going on, with their electoral realities, with civic engagement, with points of activism that you might be able to engage him, it's also important to talk about actors, people who are intentionally seeking to disrupt the democratic process, intentionally seeking to remove rights from you in your

community, like those things need to be known and they need to be called out. And so today's call

out is for Lisa Murkowski, lurky murky, as some of the folks in my audience are calling her

now as a result of what she pulled last night. So today is Wednesday, July the 2nd. So if you're listening to this at any other

time, oh, of 2025, if you're listening to this at any other time, just know that that time frame

matters. Because last night on July the 1st of 2025, Lisa Murkowski basically did a thing that the

53% of white women who voted for Donald Trump and against their interests as women, against their

interests as not being at the top of the patriarchy, against their interests financially,

against their familial interests, against the reproductive justice interests.

Lisa Murkowski embodies what the 53% of white female voters who went not only with Donald

Trump, but went with the Republican Party

that was pretty openly explicit about the idea that they did not like anything that those

women actually represent. And so today I think we should have a conversation about Lisa Murkowski

and the miserly, miserly short-sightedness of the 53%. The outlet known as political had a really interesting write-up of Lisa Murkowski to describe everything that led into her finally being convinced, quote-unquote, the biggest of air quotes ever around that phrase, but finally being convinced to actually vote for the big bitch-ass bill.

I know a lot of people like to call it the big beautiful bill. That's what the Republicans call it. Other people call it the big ugly whatever. I think it's a bitch-ass bill. So we're going to call it the big bitch-ass law, the big-b-ass legislation, the BBBBL. Yeah, that works. So what is important about this and really something that we need to be clear about before we even get started into

this conversation. Typically, I don't have a lot of smoke for people who are consistently trash.

If you are consistently a trash person, you consistently vote for trash legislation, you consistently

engage in trash politics and advocacy, then I am not surprised or disappointed when you do trash.

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