A group of demonstrators could be seen banging on the glass front doors and inside the entrance of the Republican senator’s office before local police officers arrived on the scene. Collins’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident at her Biddeford office.
Collins, who is up for reelection this year, called for “a full and impartial investigation of what happened” with the shooting in a short statement posted to X.
Collins voted to adopt a budget plan that allocated nearly $70 billion for ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security. DHS was shut down for 76 days as Democrats attempted to force changes in immigration enforcement policies following other ICE-involved shootings, a closure that ended with a Republican-backed bill to fund immigration enforcement without conditions Democrats had sought.
“It’s not fair to the Department of Homeland Security’s employees to have this cloud of uncertainty over whether or not they are going to be able to be paid,” Collins told reporters in April. “They are keeping us safe.”
Collins is seeking a sixth term in the Senate.
At what point does it become reasonable to just start running bad politicians out of town?
Follow up question, was that point even this century?
You want to bring back tar & feathering, and ride him out of town on a rail?
Is that a big ask?
Like 15 years ago give or take
You gotta pump those numbers up.
I mean, we could draw like 50 lines going back the John Birch society and the business plot, but the tea party and gamergate were very big defining points in a significant mainstreaming and escalation
Fair but this particular rot idolizes Reagan. I’d go at least that far. I don’t think anyone is idolizing Nixon or most before then. I’d say Reagan was the origin story of maga.
I think you are correct, but the timeline really split with the assassination of RFK. Had he lived, he would have been elected in 1968 instead of Nixon, Vietnam would have ended years earlier, and this nation would have gone in an entirely different direction.
Instead, we got Nixon, who steered us down the Dark Conservative path that we are still on. Reagan just made that path seem optimistic and respectable, instead of predatory and parasitic.
Nixon is literally why the undead turtle is such a salty sassy corpse
Agreed, that’s probably the overall strongest line of demarcation for the start, but not the turning point
It’s hard to go back further without leaning on trends and forces, but I find it hard not to look at J6 and see the ghost of failed reconstruction. Unhung traitors kill republics sooner or later, the wound was allowed to fester.
There are a lot of through lines that converged and wove together in culmination in the story of how we got here. That’s certainly one as is the colonial (and therefore exploitative white supremacist capitalism) origin of the country
We shoulda been in the streets months ago
Buddy, I fled the country in '21. Everything happening now was obvious to me then, and it’s not about to get any easier. And although my stock picks are toilet, I’m usually right about bad news.
1917 was a good time for that.
“ICE involved”.
She will do as the AIPAC Uniparty commands
What!? Does she actually wear a necklace that looks like a giant chain?
This timeline is nuts!
If ONLY there was SOMETHING these Mainers could Do to show Susan Collins they DONT Support her using Taxpayer Dollars to MURDER Taxpayers in America! OH WELL!
-People who will PROBABLY Reelect her?
If we’re lucky, this old bitch will be joining Mitch and Lady Lindsay pretty soon.
They die in threes. I’m hoping for Schmuck Schumer myself, his death would be a great advantage to the Democrats.
Mitch is alive and apparently mostly well.
Sez who? MAGA? I need more than that.
Nah maga hates Mitch and thinks the GOP is lying about him too.
They made him too well in their AI photos.
Sez who? MAGA? You’re gonna have to do better than that.
Based on…?
Yeah, he never looked that alive when he was alive, even ten years ago. Doubt
I’ve seen people suddenly look younger before, namely an elderly man that was my neighbor when I was young. It was never explained to me, but I’m pretty sure something like dementia or a stroke caused it. He looked at me, curious and delighted like a small child - and I could’ve sworn his eyes were never that blue before. It really freaked me out, but I guess it just means the expression we wear does a lot for how old we’re perceived as.
That, it’s AI generated, or he drank the blood of a small child.
Well, Snopes said it’s not AI (credit to Tango above) and I don’t believe in the power of blood drinking, so I’m sticking with my theory for now.
Proof means more than a 10 year old photograph, unless it’s got today’s newspaper in it. Let’s see video, with audio, and even then I’m inclined to not believe it until he’s walking around Capitol Hill.
“I saw a picture!” 🙄
But she’s very concerned and finds the incident troubling!
Collins is a murderer.
In my world a homicidal clown would’ve crept out of the woods and taken care of those ICE holes.
These clown-suits are so pathetic:
Storm a capitol building and it’s somehow “heroic”. Protestors storm a fascist local stooge’s mansion and they’re probably like
“Go away that’s mean I’m just doing my job. :(”
“ICE is keeping us safe from landscapers & house cleaners” -Senator Suzie Collins ® of Maine
How was ice involved
Seems a new plumbing job has come available.
But hey, at least nobody is making almost completely unsubstantiated rape accusations against her. Supporting the fucking gestapo is much better, right?
