‘I plan to wear a bikini’: Senate Republicans mock changes to dress code

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

Can't wear hoodies and shorts but crickets about giving handjobs and vaping around children

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.

So wear a fucking bikini. You'll be the one looking like an idiot, not Fetterman.

This is peak ok Boomer here.

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.

Again… this was the predictable response from republicans. They also failed to remember that they had a literal orange clown in the oval office for a few days over the course of 2016-2020. So they themselves set the precedent

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 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.

Damn, I was hoping that quote was from Mitch McConnell.

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.

Fuckin do it, be free

Senator, any veneer of decorum and seriousness went out the door when Cruz read Dr. Seuss on the floor.

If anything, not wanting to people to have more autonomy is very on brand

She's a rotten stupid Cunt.

do it I'll toss that pic into an ai undresser! callin your bluff

I think they should all be nude. Both the house and the senate. I’m serious about that. People can joke about shriveled dicks and sagging breasts but eliminating clothing altogether would help to eliminate a lot of the partisan nonsense

All form, zero substance with these people.

Go for it. I double dare you.

You know you've been in office too long when you're complaining about a laxer dress code

“But the corporate class might withdraw their sponsorship if we don’t all wear their traditional attire!”

Go for it, anything for the right to be taken less seriously than the left is a win.

I can wear hoodies and shorts to my job too and it's great. Good for Fetterman.

Feel free to do it. You'll freeze your ass off and be the laughing stock of the country.

Will she not just fuck off to the great beyond?

“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?

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?

Wish she held such strong opinions as she voted to confirm the current Supreme Court.

How unfortunate, shes still here.

“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.

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.

Fucking healthcare now

and to do away with the dress code, to me, debases the institution,” Collins added, without even a hint of irony.

Bitch doesn't have the tits to do it.

Everybody just show up naked, see if I care.

"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

And that'd be the least revealing thing about Sen. Collins if she did.

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.

Sure is elitist.

Feck off.

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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Now I'm concerned.

As much as I love Fetterman, I'm with the Republicans on this one. It's the same reason you can't curse in court, you have to stand up at the appropriate times and outwardly agree to show seriousness for the proceedings, etc: We're here for a super important reason. Whole people's lives will be changed based on what we do here. Take it seriously or GTFO.

I get that Fetterman is huge and wearing a nice suit every day would genuinely be a hardship for him, but there has to be some kind of solution that doesn't step us one step closer to fistfights and drunk congresspeople on the floor. I don't think MTG should be able to yell and be generally awful, I think Boebert should get in some sort of trouble that a private citizen wouldn't get in for being publicly a drunken tramp, and I think everyone in congress should still have to wear suits. It's important, take it seriously.