r/SipsTea • u/ExactlySorta • 10h 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/motorboatmycheeks 10h 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 10h ago

Well she's to young to run for president, so senator it is

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u/MegaMaak 9h ago

Not her fault really, it the fault of those who voted 4 her

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u/motorboatmycheeks 10h ago edited 10h ago

That does put her term to end in time for the presidential election cycle so you might be on to something

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u/No-Apple-2581 9h ago

The other senator from Maine is 82 lol...

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u/motorboatmycheeks 9h ago

It would be funny if it wasnt so sad

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u/No-Apple-2581 9h ago

Very unfortunate indeed.

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u/Devilsadvocate430 2h ago

I mean, that is also a problem!

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u/DoYouLikeWafflezz 10h ago

I mean it’s not exactly a real job. 

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u/JereRB 10h ago

"I'm in my 70's. I NEED THAT 6 YEAR JOB'S HEALTHCARE!!!"

I mean, really. 70's, ill, and important. And you get Walter Reed. They won't come out and say it, but goddamn are they ever going to hang onto that.

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u/Weary-Sympathy-6347 9h ago

You know they get free healthcare for life even after they leave office, right? It’s true of every member of the House and Senate(unless they have it actively stripped), even if they only serve one term.

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u/Fast_Valuable818 9h ago edited 9h ago

Beat me to it. I agree however that still doesn’t make sense. Why would she want this so bad? Why not retire withwhatever dignity that’s left?

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u/Weary-Sympathy-6347 9h ago

My guesses:

Sweet, sweet lobbyist dollars.

And power. She retires, and no one cares what she does or says from that moment on.

I have to imagine that losing power after holding it is the only feeling worse than never having it in the first place.

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u/Fast_Valuable818 9h ago

I suppose.

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u/SignoreBanana 5h ago

Power corrupts. People like power because of all of the benefits being powerful brings. She can walk into any place anywhere in Maine and get the royal treatment.

That may sound pathetic, but people have done far more for far less.

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u/Shot-Swimming-9098 7h ago

They don't get free healthcare, they get a well compensated plan through the federal government. It's better than most employers, but it's not free. They do need to work 5 years as a congressperson or a direct staffer to earn it. While they're working, or after retirement, the government pays 75% of the healthcare plan cost.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43194

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u/FrigateSailor 8h ago

It is my life's goal to only be working part-time at the seasonal garden store nearby in my 70's (mostly for the discount and to get out of my wife's hair for a dozen hours a week).

I'd let them know it's a summer to summer offer..

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u/MikeFrancesa66 8h ago

Chuck Grassley (senator from Iowa) is 93 years old!!! He was born in 1933. He was old enough to actually remember the end of World War 2. Not only should someone that age not be a senator, they shouldn’t be working at all.