Susan Collins says she may retire after 6th term

For anyone who forgot, Susan Collins voted against the first Trump impeachment (trying to overturn the election) and justified it with “Trump learned his lesson” so he doesn’t need to be impeached. And here we are.

Personally, my brow is furrowed.

She'll send herself a strongly worded letter.

But not too fast. She's gotta wring just a little more out of it.

Kind of hilarious to try and save face like this when staring down a very clear and humiliating defeat by Platner. Getting destroyed by a leftist, and a brand-new untested one at that, is such a fantastic end to her miserable career. Total indictment on everything she existed for.

How? She's saying she's going to run again and serve a sixth term. That's not avoiding anything.

This x10. What scares me is the right wing media machine is extremely good at creating propaganda and highlighting issues that further their own agenda. The second Dems get control we’re right back to Fox News/OANN/TPUSA preaching everything that the Dems are doing is bad and wrong and we should go back to Republican control.

Most of the average voting citizens will fail to learn or realize that it’s a whole lot easier to break shit than it is to fix it. 

It already happened twice in my lifetime. Barack Obama specifically had an incredibly consequential first 2 years - turning around Bush's great recession and also passing landmark healthcare law. 2 years later Republicans blame Obama for the debt they created and the bad economy he inherited, using the massive pot of dark money the Supreme Court delivered them with the Citizens United decision they convince the American voters to re-elect the exact same people who literally just got done running the economy into the ground 2 years ago - they then proceeded to sabotage the rest of Obama's term. Voters are incredibly f****** stupid, elections are overwhelmingly decided by "vibes" with no basis in fact or even history as recent as 2 years ago.

Which is why the world needs to learn its lesson from this term and keep working on diversifying our trade with other nations and start working on defending ourselves. We can't trust that any sanity will return and remain long term for the USA.

Every. F******. Time. It’s so goddamn annoying to see. This a****** destroys DECADES worth of regulations, relations, and norms, and the goldfish of this country will get stumped that it takes more than two years to put it all back together.

There is no way to clean this mess in a way that would be popular. Among the many problems arising from spending all of America's money on tax cuts for the rich and land wars in Asia, paid for by ludicrous amounts of debt, is that the Democrats were right: This means that money can never be available for what it is badly needed for. Things like saving Social Security, establishing universal healthcare, rescuing public education, the green transition, and real support for workers and the poor. That debt has been contracted. It is accruing interest. It must be repaid. So whoever wants to clean this mess has to somehow convince Americans that they have to take responsibility for their own country. It means higher taxes - much higher taxes - without the services those taxes could have paid for is America had never started on its insane Republican downward fiscal spiral. In order to start recovering from this nightmare, America needs to raise taxes an amount equivalent to an additional 4% of GDP before *any* new spending/restoring old spending. I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to find a way to blame society's most vulnerable minorities for their self-inflicted problems again once they see that bill.

Americans have short memories. As soon as the mess is cleaned up — even if it’s only 50% clean, the GOP will take credit and / or say “We could have done it better!” Who’s still waiting on a better GOP Health Reform Bill?

Yeah the script is basically already out. Dems will win in 26 and likely 28. By then the economy will be in the toilet and Dems will be given a mandate to fix it. The Democratic leadership and a like establishment president will do very little in the way of radical policy that the nation needs all the while not arresting and putting the prior admin on trial in the name of healing. They will likely continue the war in Iran and capitulate to Israel at every turn. By 2030 little has been done to improve people’s lives and blame falls on Dems in Congress. The GOP have another wave election victory both federally and at the state level like 2010. The entire Dem agenda is stalled and with a new Census the GOP gerrymander states even further cracking Dem cities. The pass Trump SAVE act style laws at the state level to ensure election victory in swing states. By 2032 the next era of fascist runs as Trump without the baggage bets a likely old establishment Democrat and the cycle begins again but this time with someone who will finally say the US is done with democracy.

IT HAPPENS EVERYTIME!!! It’s so frustrating. 

Yeah Lucy is at it again.

"We the People" are doing it wrong if we do not take care of her this year.

I can’t believe the number of comments in here convinced she’s already in her sixth. Does anyone read anything but the headline anymore?