Man, I'll never fully understand what the fuck is wrong with Maine residents and their obsession with her.

I'm sure she thinks he's learned his lesson.

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.

I really hate that lady.

What does someone in Maine get out of this? Maybe Collins is getting shit for it but the average person is getting fucked.

"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 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.

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.

She's about to be voted out by Planter if the overwhelming polls are even barely accurate.

I think it's more about calling her out.

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

Fair but it's clickbait, which is shitty

I'd be surprised if there aren't candidates more hateful and racist on the primary ballot.

Maine residents are, as a whole, very nice people. Certainly a lot friendlier as a population than many other states I've spent time in. Calling them hateful and racist based purely on (by your own admission) their voting records is like saying the majority of US residents are MAGA because Trump got elected.

Source: Previously lived there for 26 years.

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.

How is it clickbait? It literally says the thing in the title

And?

Me too, Mulder, me too..

The social contract is broken.

Focus on your community and resisting fascism.

People are stupid.

I call it the mitigating factor since so many things don't make sense until we include it.

Not sure I’d give much credit to susie on this one. It’s more than likely filling her pockets.

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.

That's the answer right there. They're voting for her because they like that she's lining her own pockets.

Oh the one Nazi who sometimes isn't a Nazi did a Nazi thing? Shocked.

Though to be fair, I’m sure she is very concerned

What makes you think the Dems will filibuster? So far Schumer has capitulated every single time.

Neat. I live in a Midwestern state, and people here are so nice and friendly there's an expression about it.

We're also obviously hateful and racist though, because we keep voting for Trump and sending hateful, racist Republicans to Congress.

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.

This is why no Republican should be allowed into office, ever.

Even the "moderate" ones will betray America.

"He's learned his lesson".

No shit how else was she going to keep her seat in the Senate lol

In a rare, unprecedented, political moment: republicans banned together to do something truly deplorable.

She's certainly losing that seat, to be fair.

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.

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.

Collin’s you cunt!

A yes surely the rule of process that they can get rid of at any time will save us

Not learning lessons has kinda been his thing. She goes in the ditch next to the rest of them.

Of course she did...

She was re elected even after the "He learned his lesson." ridiculousness. Americans are the problem.

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.

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.

But my community is full of people who demonstrated on November 5th 2024 that they are favor of or ambivalent to fascism.

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).