Collins complained that “everybody ignores” her vote to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked. “It is never enough.”

While Collins touted her breaks with Trump, she was also a pivotal vote for key parts of his agenda. She provided a decisive vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, despite sexual assault allegations that he denied. And though she voted against Trump’s Medicaid-cutting “Big Beautiful Bill” on final passage, she was a key vote to advance debate on it.

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    she believed he viewed Roe as “settled law” and “settled as a precedent of the court”

    You got used and still pushed his policy.

    You’re done.

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      She didn’t get used. They always made sure there were plenty of yes votes to push through the Trump agenda whenever she said no. She never said no when her vote actually mattered. She was playing her constituents as fools.

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    Susan Collins, one of the token senators who was allowed to vote the other way when it almost always made no overall impact.

    Get fucked.

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    Random breaks here and there don’t count. You need to be consistent. You also don’t get points for voting a certain way when:

    a) It would have passed anyway without your vote

    b) It never had a chance of passing even if you voted for it

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    She had zero problems giving Trump 93% of her voting support after voting to impeachment? Tell me that you voted just for appearances, without telling me you voted for just appearances.

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    Bitch, we know you only voted to convict because your party knew exactly what the vote would be and how many Senators they could have strategically vote for it without actually changing the outcome.

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      I would much prefer Socialist Anarchy because communism often leads to authoritarianism, and that’s how you get Tankies.

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        How are you going to protect the country against fascism if you don’t express authority over capitalists and fascists?

        Better question: Socialism is a transitional state between capitalism and… what exactly? Not anarchism. Call me a tankie all you want but you will not get a classless, stateless society without defending it from capitalist oligarch fascists.

        See: China, Cuba, USSR, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, Afghanistan

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      I don’t know about that entirely. There’s different flavors of everything. We can still utilize the good things from a private economy, but use the tools and framework for socialized safety nets to create a bottom floor for being an American. Then use that as the example for the rest of the world.

      It’s the carrot and the stick. Not either the carrot or the stick.

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        Oh no we cant have a moneyless, classless, stateless society! think of all the downsides! we should just inject some sewage into our drinking water instead of all of it, the answer is always in the middle ground!