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.
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.
What does someone in Maine get out of this?
Well, if you’re a fascist…
I don’t know, but Asheville NC got the Blue Ridge Parkway because their representative was the last vote needed for Social Security.
Not sure I’d give much credit to susie on this one. It’s more than likely filling her pockets.
That’s the answer right there. They’re voting for her because they like that she’s lining her own pockets.
I’m not suggesting residents of Maine are voting for her to line pockets. They seem to vote for her for whatever reason makes sense to them. She continues to believe certain people “have learned their lesson” and will do the honorable thing.
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.
Fair but it’s clickbait, which is shitty
How is it clickbait? It literally says the thing in the title
Writing “the 50th vote” instead of “another vote” or even “a 50th vote” implies that specific vote is more important, like reaching a threshold. At least that’s how I see it.
Correct.
The implication is that it’s guaranteed to pass with her vote. That is the clickbait.
A yes surely the rule of process that they can get rid of at any time will save us
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
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).
Literally never. For some reason she has a reputation as being the left leaning Nazi tho
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.
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.
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.
Pelosi retired
A rotten cunt since the day she was born.
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.
In a rare, unprecedented, political moment: republicans banned together to do something truly deplorable.
I wish it was fucking rare, but they’ve been doing this shit at least 2 or 3 times a year for my entire lifetime.
I know it was a joke, they always vote as a block because they have no independent thoughts.
Collins is a sack of shit and must be another Russian asset.
jfc she can fuck off and die already
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She’s about to be voted out by Planter if the overwhelming polls are even barely accurate.
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Perfect tombstone quote when this decrepit thing passes.
