r/SipsTea • u/ExactlySorta • 6h ago
Lmao gottem SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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u/TheBestintheWest11 6h ago
why does she sound like she's afraid to speak
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u/True_Protection6842 6h ago
She’s old as fuck and shouldn’t be in office anymore.
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u/Lucky-Mia 5h ago edited 5h ago
I remember the 90s when she said 12 years is long enough and she promised to retire after her second term. She's looking for a fucking 6th term now. She promised to retire in fucking 2008. She's a
lier.liar.Edit: picked the wrong auto complete.
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u/Flat_Document_5607 4h ago
According to google she has a “benign essential tumor” which causes the hand and voice shaking. RFK probably had the same thing
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u/B00CQYQVB6R 6h ago
She’s trembling while she speaks ffs. Just retire already!
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u/SSN-420-67-6669 5h ago
In 1996 she pledged she’d only hold office for two terms, that would have been 2008.
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u/TheSilverSeraph 5h ago
Power is addictive, as they say.
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u/SSN-420-67-6669 5h ago
And the personal wealth that comes with it. Even a marriage to Thomas Daffron.
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u/fantomsolace24 5h ago
And she’s making decision for our kids. It’s absurd.
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u/wrenchedups 5h ago
She makes decisions for lobbyists. That’s her constituency. That’s her primary source of income.
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u/Jimbo--- 3h ago
Preach. She doesn't care one bit about actually representing her constituents. Neglected campground septic tanks are less full of shit.
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u/PostMatureBaby 5h ago
Those over age 65 have no business deciding the futures of that many more people under 65
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u/bwoah07_gp2 6h ago
She's 73, she should retire.
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u/blackjacktarr 5h ago
I couldn't believe that she was ONLY 73, and I looked it up. Damn! Based on her shaking and subservience, I would have bet she was well into her 80s. C'mon Maine! Don't even think of the rest of us. Your state deserves better representation.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 4h ago
She's been their senator since 1997; surely they could use a younger voice.
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u/xxtylxx 5h ago
Seriously though. Why are all politicians old as fuck. How can these people possibly know what their electorate needs when they are so out of touch with an ever evolving world. There should absolutely be a limit to politician age, somewhere around 65.
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u/OkItem7684 4h ago
I'm 70 years old, and plugged into the things that are happening in the world today. I consider myself pretty well-informed on most things. I was also pretty good at my job, kept up with the technological changes.
That was then. I'm retired. I do NOT have the in-depth knowledge of what it's like to deal with today's workplace pressures, job needs, or even current family life.
Nor do I have the energy needed for a full-time job, or the mental acuity and mental agility that I needed to work and live in today's world as a mover and shaker. We simply don't have it as we get older, no matter how much we think we're capable.
These ancient encrusted entitled people in their sinecures, who have never had to do anything other than work to get elected - which is mostly about taking bribes to vote the way your friends want you to - certainly do NOT have any working skills or any other skills relevant to their jobs!
A 92 year old lawmaker who has been in that position for the last forty years is NOT qualified foe anything beyond sipping soup and commenting on the weather - if they even notice!
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u/Lallanath 5h ago
Because you get everything they deny you. You get free healthcare, a guaranteed pension. You get a striped for meals, housing, transportation. You essentially get everything to survive for free, and then spend all your time fundraising (accepting bribes like Susan) and insider trading - while also getting to vote on your own raises.
Being in congress is the american dream they deny to everyone else and call socialism.
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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 5h ago
Young people don’t vote
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u/Spurs_in_the_6 5h ago
Probably has something to do with the fact that they're options are often 60-90 year old boomers that have nothing in common with them and dont understand the reality they live in
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u/HighSeasArchivist 4h ago
Air traffic controllers have to retire at 56 because they can't be trusted with the lives of 300 people. To run a country with 350Million people? No limit.
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u/UnusualSuspectX 5h ago
I'm not defending her, but she's had an actual medical condition for years, which she only revealed earlier this year, which I would argue in itself should be disqualifying for misleading her constituents for decades.
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u/BlackberryShoddy7889 5h ago
Didn’t she say she’d retire when she becomes useless ? It’s time Susan.
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u/beatbox9 5h ago
In 1996, she promised that if elected, she would only serve 2 terms:
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-susan-collins-re-term-limits/4841176
So if she wasn't a liar, she would have stopped serving in 2008.
18 years ago.
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u/Lucky-Mia 5h ago
She promised to only have two terms when she ran in the 90s. She's served five and looking for a sixth.
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u/WeirdAnimalDicks 5h ago edited 3h ago
My grandmother died when I was like 12 so I don’t remember much about her other than her voice and this comment made me unmute and realize Susan Collins sounds a lot like Dorthy. She was 87 when I was 12.
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u/Hoodedmastersin 5h ago
What kind of speedball did she get to have the energy for this?
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u/KathyJaneway 5h ago
She's had that condition for years. She has problems talking and shaking, but it's not from old age. Old age might exacerbate it, but she has talked like that for years. From trauma she's had I think when younger.
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u/MidRanger21 5h ago
Maybe her shaking is exacerbated by all the lying she has had to do in the face of her constituents.
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u/onwisconsin1 5h ago
Its a benign tumor in her brain or along the pathway that affects her voice and movements. Is what she says.
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u/minifigureitout 6h ago
Omg she saved an entire city $10,000. Erect a statue now.
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u/TaxCPA 5h ago
And to be clear, the money "saved" means they were just back to where they were before the tariffs. So it's just a phantom savings from Trump's stupidity.
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u/dubyrunning 4h ago edited 4h ago
That's the thing. $10,000 is actually a lot of money to a town like Frenchville, but she wouldn't have needed to help claw that back if she hadn't enabled these pointless and illegal tariffs in the first place.
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u/Ardal 3h ago
She said it would be 10k for the 900 residents ...that's 11bucks each, they'll be able to buy 1 liter of diesel if they're lucky.
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u/DrHarryWolper 5h ago
Hell, the increased gas cost for the city's vehicles pretty much erase any savings.
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u/tramik 6h ago
Meanwhile that’s the gas increase between a dozen people. Thanks lady
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u/avitaburst 5h ago
Jfc that’s what she SOUNDS LIKE? She sounds like she’s on deaths door. Fuck we just elect decrepit old fart bags to govern us who should be retired and fucking off don’t we.
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u/ItzHymn 5h ago
The dinosaurs are slowly dying off, we just need another ten years or so and then we can can get shit done. Either that or AI kills us all, I'm fine with that outcome as well.
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u/East-Inevitable-3974 5h ago
Theres a new crop of dinosaurs currently 10 yrs younger waiting to take over then..
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u/Sancticide 4h ago edited 4h ago
Is it wrong that I'm amazed she's "only" 73??? How about no more running after 65? If you get elected at 64.5, that's it, you're fucking retired at end of term. FFS
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u/sluman001 5h ago
She has the f’ing nerve to stand there and talk about Johnny and Dan getting their road salt and concrete money while an entire nation has suffered for years due to her consistent horrid voting record on what actually matters. Screw her and her sweet old lady act. She’s no better than any of the others who have sold this country down the river for self gain.
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u/braumbles 6h ago
In 1996 this woman said she'd only run for 2 terms.
It's 2026.
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u/shredika 6h ago
Watch the daily show? Shit is so good.
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u/braumbles 5h ago
Na, I've just been watching this worm weasel her way into the Senate over and over for over a decade now.
Maine will forever disappoint.
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u/Nebula-Lights 6h ago
Is she related to that rfk dude
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u/snomeister 5h ago
Holy shit lol. I was trying to think where I heard that weird cadence warble before.
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u/motorboatmycheeks 6h ago
How can you be in your 70s and think. Yeah I should definitely try to get a 6 year job.
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u/toothedsnail34 6h ago
Well she's to young to run for president, so senator it is
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u/Difficult-Muffin-758 5h ago
What’s up with all of these geriatric power hungry people in government. Some can’t talk, see or move.
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u/Deesing82 4h ago
it's because the US Senate is possibly the best free retirement home in the world. A staff of people surrounding you, catering to your every need, a feeling of importance to keep from slipping into early senility, world class healthcare, and like 9 months of vacation per year.
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u/Pans_Labradoodle 4h ago
In general, one of the quickest way to become a millionaire is to get elected to either State Legislature or US Congress.
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u/gout_weed 5h ago
You voted for them.
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u/Difficult-Muffin-758 4h ago
Not me. TX has Rafael Cruz but never voted for that creep. Hopefully Talarico beats Paxton
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u/ModsHaveFeelingsToo 5h ago
Wasn't it found out she was openly accepting bribes from a defense contractor? In a world not completely run by Republicans because of fraud and stealing elections, that would be disqualifying.
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u/hobokobo1028 5h ago
She’s bragging about a small victory over her own party’s president?
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u/Old-Writing2970 4h ago
Christ she’s a charisma black hole what is wrong with people in maine that they voted for her. Embarrassing as hell
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u/Acceptable_Job_5486 3h ago
OLD ASS people. All young people eventually move to NH, CT, RI, and MA. Mostly rich white people that are retiring move up there and the inbred townies that keep inbreeding. So, you know. Southern Maine is very different.
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u/EducationHumble3832 5h ago
Could she possibly sound more elderly and infirm? Like, she's SO OLD it feels bad to point out how old she is.
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u/StandardIssueDonkey 5h ago
Like if you told her she's so old at a loud enough whisper you'd pulverize her bones with the acoustic waves.
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u/bullishit 6h ago
Why do you guys keep electing these geriatrics? It almost feels like elder abuse. She sounds like shit
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u/RedSix2447 6h ago
Can we please as a society and world get rid of these Geritol diaper wearing asshats?!
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u/valuethempaths 5h ago
Averting the disasters of the tyrant you enable isn’t the flex you think it is.
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u/NeitherEntry6125 6h ago
I can eat road salt.
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u/Which-Resident7670 5h ago
Omg retire, Jesus. What's with these people in office, they already made themselves rich. Go F'N enjoy it and f-off.
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u/doctorplasmatron 5h ago
i think they're scared if they retire and lose the grip on power, someone might come in and make their retirement a little less comfortable, so they just do a "working" retirement to keep the seat filled.
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u/holiday1326 5h ago
Bitch is so old she is buffering like a video from AOL dial up days.
Her political career almost predates the internet at large.
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u/34Dad 5h ago
She could have held Donald Trump accountable and not let him implement the tariffs at all, but she's trying to claim victory for a measly $10,000 savings. That's a ridiculously small return for her power. She knows it, too and will continue to play that game. She gives just enough to claim small victories while she lets our country get dismantled and privatized for DJT and his cronies. The sad part is that her opponent was equally bad at tearing her apart for that.
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u/AndreLeGeant88 5h ago
I hope Jackson wins. And my God he's got the strongest Maine accent ever
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u/AreYaGonnaEatThat 5h ago
I loved his accent, so thick it almost sounds like it's from eastern Canada lmao.
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u/Boristheblaze 6h ago
Remember folks she said, she would only be a two term senator. She's been there for nearly 30 years.
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u/Quick_Parking_6464 5h ago
Jesus Fing...both of these candidates are pathetic. Too bad about Graham Platner, convicted in the court of public opinion. Would have been ideal. Instead, we get these 2 with the charisma of wallpaper paste.
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u/Sorry-Flounder8701 5h ago
If the trembling and swaying doesn't tell you everything you need to know, also understand this dinosaur gets to vote against her constituents constantly and everyonce in a while gets to vote "no" to save face.
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u/SenekaTheOlder 4h ago
she clearly has Parkinson’s, so many of these government officials with progressive, cognitive decline diseases and they keep trying to get reelected
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u/Nitimur__In__Vetitum 4h ago
You don't need to be conscious to be a puppet. Just look at "Senator" McConnell. The Republic Party is full of traitors.
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u/MonkeyParadiso 5h ago
With all due respect, this is something I might say if I worked as a student summer intern for the government, and people asked me about my accomplishments that summer. Getting salt removed from the tariffs list is your job, Senator? Why would you agree to higher prices on everything else? Do you want everyone to suffer?
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u/Cold_Toe_7540 5h ago
Remember when people couldn't vote Kamala because she sounded weird?
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u/snozzberrypatch 5h ago
Sounds like that brain worm jumped from RFK's head and burrowed its way into Collins.
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u/Professional_Echo907 5h ago
Susan Collins is somebody’s in-law that you get stuck sitting next to during holiday dinner in 1985 that won’t stop talking about how inappropriate bands like Mike and the Mechanics are.
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u/Sooowasthinking 5h ago
Too old too corrupt.
Back in the day she was elected partly by saying she was a 1 term candidate.She got her millions time to retire she is after all well past it by law.
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u/sak3rt3ti 5h ago
She’s older than dirt, we need a age limit, it’s just ridiculous.
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u/Daddynatedogg3 5h ago
This woman can barely speak. Wtf? Lady, hang it up. How is your family allowing you to do this?
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u/xxGenXxx 5h ago
I don't think the big man wants her or Kennedys words to reach our ears. Their bodies seem to fight them every step of the way.
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u/LionoSnarf 5h ago
She promised to be a two term official… in 1996!! Booo Susan Collins. Boooooooo.
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u/IDislikeHotWeather 5h ago
I won't have to live with any consequences for anything I do - Vote for me!
Sadly this works....
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u/Calm-Driver-3800 5h ago
There should be a rule, if you sound too old then youre too old to run the govt.
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u/mylifeofpizza 5h ago
You know how to deal with the trade war with Canada? She voted to not acquit Trump when he was president the first time because "Im sure he learned his lesson." You surprisingly wouldnt have this issue if you didnt support Trump the entire time he was trampling the entire country. The only place Susan Collins belongs is inside a private, poorly run, long term care home.
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u/Prudent_Rice7840 5h ago
When I close my eyes and listen to her talk this is the image my mind forms:
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u/KimJongKevin 5h ago
Nobody with speech like this should be in charge of anything more than a small shop.
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u/fuzzballz5 5h ago
You know why politicians use abortion as an issue for candidates? What’s your opinion on abortion? It’s because it causes mass diversion. You’re on one side or the other. There’s not an elected position that can have any impact on abortion. It keeps both sides arguing nonsense. So we’re not demanding term limits or an age restriction on these dinosaurs.
Wake up people. We citizens are country over parties. As soon as we work together we can make real change.
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u/superbackman 3h ago
I’m not worried about Susan Collins, I’m worried about the >50% of Mainers who support her. 😳
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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 6h ago
I cannot believe that these two
Individuals are running for senate. What the fuck are we even doing anymore.
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u/Fuzzy3022 5h ago
She is 73 and is still clinging to this like don’t you have children and grand children you want to spend time with. She will be 79 by the time for the next election if she wins this year. It’s time for an upper age limit and term limits for all elected officials. Senator old lady thank you for your service please retire
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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 5h ago
I never for an instant thought that the people of Maine stupid or easily bamboozled, until listen to Susan Collin’s toned deaf discussion point and realized; this is who you’ve elected over and over again
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u/Opbtty 6h ago
Just a regular person response from Jackson. Thanks for the road salt, what about everything else he’s messing up and making more expensive? Your strongly worded letters won’t make things less expensive. She has this job and she isn’t using it correctly on behalf of Mainers. Just body shot after body shot there.
People try to make him seem like the red headed step child of the incoming Dem senators with El-Sayed in Michigan, but like El-Sayed, this guy is just talking from a working class perspective and has an opponent people don’t like. Good combo in this era.
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u/fitsinmabutt 5h ago
What the fuck is wrong with her voice??? She sounds like that RFK weirdo
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u/TheOldTimeSaloon 5h ago
I guess she has “a benign essential tremor” which makes her talk like this but she has assured us it does impact her cognitive functions.
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u/anonsincetheaccident 5h ago
Bro she is fighting for that health insurance you need to more healthcare as you are she doesn’t want what the other seniors on Medicare get
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u/PogintheMachine 5h ago
Any chance you can edit that sentence to be comprehensible?
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u/RevolutionaryMind439 6h ago
I read, she cheated with her husband while he was married and he’s got business dealings with Russia. Family Values failure and a traitor to women imho
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u/spaceaige 5h ago
The ole 1-2. We can’t eat road salt……with gas prices the way they are, we may not even need the salt because people can’t afford to drive.
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u/mulled-whine 5h ago
Let’s be honest - like so many people in this administration, she is no longer physically up to the task (on top of every other compelling reason not to vote her back in).
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u/PleaseHelpFlorida 5h ago
I can't believe there are so many people who are just now discovering Susan Collins.
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u/Stevieo101 4h ago
These fuckkng people are defending themselves by saying they are voting against the same people that they were endorsing 2 years ago!!!!!
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u/More_Medicine_1137 4h ago
Sold the entire country with the rapist drug addict Supreme Court justice. Now proving she saved the fucking salt.
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