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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.
Collins is a sack of shit and must be another Russian asset.
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.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck...
Even Mitch McConnell didn't vote for this thing.
I read save act will block a lot more republican women from voting than anyone else because married democrat women are far more likely to own a passport
jfc she can fuck off and die already
I’m getting pretty old and we have no representation. These are all treasonous traitors who represent corporations, oligarchs and Israel. We will not be able to vote our way out of this.
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.
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.
No argument about Schumer, et al. But Collins isn't one of them. She's, in fact, part of the actual pedocon party.
Bro I agree, and I say this with love, but Collins is a Republican
Pelosi retired
Perfect tombstone quote when this decrepit thing passes.
Leadership of our parties are all old vultures like this hag, who has sat in office for THIRTY YEARS
God I hate this broad
Of course she did...
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
Both of our parties are unconstitutional private organizations, and both have been bought long before we were born
Democrats won't save you
Collin’s you cunt!
A rotten cunt since the day she was born.
In a rare, unprecedented, political moment: republicans banned together to do something truly deplorable.
I wish is was fucking rare, but they've been doing this shit at least 2 or 3 times a year for my entire lifetime.
No shit how else was she going to keep her seat in the Senate lol
Most of the party wouldn't risk primarying her in this environment. The NRSC knows no other Republican has a shot of winning the general, and they've definitely made that clear to the idiot in chief, who probably now understands there's a reasonable chance that the Senate flips. I don't think there's any political calculation here; she's being a dick because that's what she is.
She's certainly losing that seat, to be fair.
She was re elected even after the "He learned his lesson." ridiculousness. Americans are the problem.
Yeah, I mean americans voted for this.
This is literally a discussion Bout ho elections aren't free and fair. We did not vote for this and the vast majority of Americans, in a true democratic election (not a representative democracy), would stop this from ever passing. But that isn't how we operate. Instead we vote for people who vote on our behalf and we vote for law makers who make laws on our behalf and who vote on those laws. And we somehow just have to trust the representatives to actually represent us. But there's no way in hell that is going to always work.
"Always going to work" = never works
Voter support for higher minimum wage is around 70%. Support for universal healthcare and abortion is over 60%. Support for term limits is over 70%. And so on.
Our government is pay-for-play, and the voters can't pay... but Musk and Amazon and the rest have some discretionary income to share with the politicians.
False. Republicants voted for this.
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.)
I mean, when has she actually done something good? Even in the article they say she votes with Trump 98% of the time (more than Rand Paul).
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.
Get armed. Rice and beans, and generally about 2 weeks of food and water.
I disagree I think we all need to vocalize our dissent as loudly as possible.
That would be a strong argument if I had suggested anything remotely close to not vocalizing our dissent.
But my community is full of people who demonstrated on November 5th 2024 that they are favor of or ambivalent to fascism.