Perfect tombstone quote when this decrepit thing passes.

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.

Pelosi retired

Correct.

God I hate this broad

Even Mitch McConnell didn't vote for this thing.

Not even Schumer is stupid enough to cave to "I lose my job forever."

The implication is that it's guaranteed to pass with her vote. That is the clickbait.

jfc she can fuck off and die already

I don’t know, but Asheville NC got the Blue Ridge Parkway because their representative was the last vote needed for Social Security.

False. Republicants voted for this.

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.

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.

Leadership of our parties are all old vultures like this hag, who has sat in office for THIRTY YEARS

Both of our parties are unconstitutional private organizations, and both have been bought long before we were born

Democrats won't save you

"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.

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.

I disagree I think we all need to vocalize our dissent as loudly as possible.

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.

Get armed. Rice and beans, and generally about 2 weeks of food and water.

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

What does someone in Maine get out of this?

Well, if you're a fascist...

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck...

This was why I was fucking bummed when Biden got into the Democratic primary in '19. Name recognition >>> Younger, better options.

Collins is a sack of shit and must be another Russian asset.

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

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.

How many times do this rogue Democrats have to buck the party line to work with the fascists before we actually get some party discipline? Yes, I get the whole "big tent party" thing, but there should be a point (which has long since and repeatedly been passed) where the party closes ranks and starts either censuring these members in a meaningful way, like a monetary fine or loss of some campaign funds or something, and escalate right up to expelling them from the party and making them campaign openly as the republicans they really are.

I'm not saying they should be policing every single action of them, but when you have assholes like Joe Manchon or Susan Collins, who tank key pieces of legislation that represent major planks of the party or directly work against the interests of the constituents, it shouldn't be up to grass roots movements to primary these bastards, much to frequently do so against the DNC continuing to back them. They should already be gone based on their part misdeeds, and the party should be proactive in this.

Wut.

Susan Collins IS NOT A DEMOCRAT. She is a REPUBLICAN. I don't mean that she's a DINO, she's literally a Republican.

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?

Literally never. For some reason she has a reputation as being the left leaning Nazi tho

You know what? That's all on me. For some dumb reason, I had it in my head that she was a Democrat. I'll just go put away my pitchfork now.

Leopards start circling, ready for a feast

I also saw a stat that democratic women are less likely to be married in the first place.

Citation: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-growing-link-between-marriage-fertility-and-partisanship

I know it was a joke, they always vote as a block because they have no independent thoughts.

So last November the republicans ran a 'fair voting' law in Maine and it got voted down by 65% of the state. Susan collins seat is at risk indeed. I see a lot of Graham Planter signs in the place of the old Trump signs. I think they are shitting a brick about midterms and this law is a political calculation to do what ever they need to do to skew the election in her favor. At this point I think she might just do it for the head lines. She's always contemplating until last minute when she always votes with her voting block.

nothings certain. Im hoping mills and collins flop and the young populist dude sweeps it. I would not be surprised at all to see Susan win a fair election or a rigged election. I would be pleased if she didn't.

Maine lugging around a record number of "Fell For It Again" awards with that POS senator.

I'm not American so I'm probably missing something, but isn't this a Republican who votes almost exclusively along party lines? So, a case of people getting exactly what they voted for?

I'm not saying she's not a despicable arsehole, but it doesn't seem like she hides it.

Meanwhile, Republicans are actively trying to kill you. Both sidesism only makes sense when both are equivalent threats, which is clearly not the fucking case.

"if it came to a vote"
Filibuster still exists

You aren't even from here australian lol, just shut up and listen like you're supposed to

Partisanship is such a driving force in our politics that even someone who only bucks their party 4% of the time is considered "bipartisan". I've seen reports in the media calling a vote "bipartisan" if it only gets two or three votes from the other side.

And yes, it depends on that person's reputation. Since Collins is seen as a moderate, all it takes is her support on a bill to call it "bipartisan". OTOH, Senator Rand Paul frequently votes against the Republican party line, but only because he is a batshit crazy libertarian. He can vote against a Republican bill, and nobody calls that "bipartisan", I guess because both sides think he's nuts.

Collins regularly advertises herself as a moderate and makes a big show of complaining about the rest of the party to the media.

So the news here is "Rebellious Republican didn't rebel against Republican bill"?

Except "rebellious" means "still toes the line 96% of the time" and "Republican bill" means "whatever fucked up turd of an idea Trumps handlers have evacuated through that festering mouth-hole in his face"?

Yes, you understand that correctly. All I can say is that it wasn't always this way.

She's one of a few the Republicans have had strategically vote against the party when her vote wasn't needed to pass a bill. Basically her, Murkowski, and for a while McCain, until he really bucked the party with the ACA vote and became a pariah until his death.

I'm well aware - I have a pretty comprehensive understanding of American political history, albeit entirely gleaned from Day of the Tentacle, The Wire, and that Obama "HOPE" poster.

The strategy being "pretend you're not an evil fuckface to get more votes", presumably?

Yes, in competitive states, they when by playing the reasonable centrist that swears they are willing to stand up to their party...

Never actually doing so when it could actually matter.

add to the list of collaborators. the regime will fall, and some of these dinosaurs will be still living. there must be a reckoning.

That's not how the filibuster works. It only takes one person to do it. It's take 60 to vote against it to stop it from being done by that one person. Even Schumer isn't dumb enough to call the dems to vote against them doing their own thing.