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Man, I'll never fully understand what the fuck is wrong with Maine residents and their obsession with her.
I don't know the situation in Maine, but being a deciding vote usually means you get a lot of concessions. It's quite possible Maine residents get what they want from her via these concessions.
So bribery. Maine residents are okay with immoral national politics, as long as they get their kickbacks for making it happen.
I'm thinking concessions for being the deciding vote should not be a thing.
I remember reading a study years ago that said people are more likely to support a leader who "plays dirty" because 1) they figure other leaders are doing the same so they must level the playing field, and 2) they can turn a blind eye to the misdeeds because it's the leader doing it, not the voters.
What does someone in Maine get out of this? Maybe Collins is getting shit for it but the average person is getting fucked.
I don't know this bill specifically, but bills have a lot of weird unrelated shit tacked onto them. Sometimes that stuff is state-specific stuff. There have been lots of cases where senators have opposed a bill but changed their tune after something specifically for their state was added. They can then brag about these wins during primaries.
Maybe we're looking for nuance where there isn't any, and the majority of Maine residents are just hateful and racist.
Source: they keep electing Susan Collins
"I know who this is, but I don't know who that is. People I know must be better."
What this shit headline DOESN'T say is that this passing would require 60 votes, not a simple majority. Unless the GOP nukes the filibuster, which it doesn't seem like many GOP-fuckwits like, they still won't have the required votes to pass this.
Still, this is sobering that they have her 50th vote, and couch-fucker Vance's "have you even said thank you once" 51st vote, if it were truly a tie breaker scenario.
I think it's more about calling her out.
What makes you think the Dems will filibuster? So far Schumer has capitulated every single time.
The social contract is broken.
Focus on your community and resisting fascism.
Nobody is coming, there is no opposition.
Get your people together and talk to your neighbors. Get armed. Rice and beans, and generally about 2 weeks of food and water.
Get active with the voting in your state and volunteer if you can, even if all you can do is document efforts at voter suppression, you still need to be there and be involved with voting in your town, your county and your state. People like Susan Collins only remain in power because people in states don't care nearly enough about who represents them in either local or federal house and senate.
Either delete your social media or radically edit it to reduce personal, identifying information.
This is why no Republican should be allowed into office, ever.
Even the "moderate" ones will betray America.
From the article.
According to a recent scorecard, Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul.
She's as moderate as Mitch McConnell
Oh the one Nazi who sometimes isn't a Nazi did a Nazi thing? Shocked.
Susan Collins has two modes:
Empowering nazi fascists proudly.
Frowning and wagging her finger while empowering nazi fascists (proudly.)
Maine lugging around a record number of "Fell For It Again" awards with that POS senator.
But better still is anyone who believed the "You need 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate" line we've been swallowing since Clinton.
Even Mitch McConnell didn't vote for this thing.
Fuck this old crone. Every one of these old establishment dems like schumer, pelosi and collins need to fucking die already. If you're gonna sit in that seat and deny your constituents true representation until you die, then you might as well get it over with.
Thanks for literally nothing, you useless, feckless coward.
No argument about Schumer, et al. But Collins isn't one of them. She's, in fact, part of the actual pedocon party.
She's a Repedolican, but I can see why you're confused because everyone likes to pretend she's somehow less extreme than the other ones. She's not, just puts on a little show of "being concerned" about things, but always votes right along with the rest of them.
I'm sure she thinks he's learned his lesson.
That line made it 100% clear to me that she was operating in bad faith. Nobody is that ignorant, much less a politician with decades of experience.
I really hate that lady.
She knows it gives her the best chance of being re-elected.
Do these people think they're going live forever? Something twists the minds of everyone who gains power. They become absolutely incapable of giving it up voluntarily.
Truly - What do they care about what happens after they're dead? .. They'll be dead.
They have no empathy towards anyone who will suffer the consequences because they won't have to be the ones to deal with the fallout. "Fuck you, I got mine" is their entire strategy.
A rotten cunt since the day she was born.
Collins is a sack of shit and must be another Russian asset.
jfc she can fuck off and die already
Perfect tombstone quote when this decrepit thing passes.
In a rare, unprecedented, political moment: republicans banned together to do something truly deplorable.
Of course she did...
Where filibuster?
Anyways, this is only 20 minutes into the 2nd episode of the Season 2026 of House of Cards and the plot is already getting wilder and wilder. Can't wait till what the writers come up with in Season 2028 Episode 11...
The Lafayette Square Coup?
God I hate this broad
Collin’s you cunt!
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck...