What you are about to read is so far off the walls that your instinct is going to be that this is parody. That was my first instinct. So I went and verified the story and yes, The Hill is carrying this quote, so evidently it’s real. Before you read Susan Collins’ musings on why oh why would Donald Trump purge 17 inspector generals (and chessmaster Garry Kasparov’s insightful reposte) there’s something to be learned here. And that is the collective delusion that the GOP has about Donald Trump. They are truly a dysfunctional family. In a dysfunctional family people pretend that the screwed up member really isn’t screwed up — merely misunderstood. Or if they admit he’s screwed up, then he’s learned his lesson and is soon to be better. And you’ve heard that very thing from Collins about Trump.
Get your head out of your asses people!
Trump has plans to DEMOLISH our Constitution and Government and getting rid of everyone who would be able to watch and inform us, works to his complete advantage.
Sadly, we’re NOT going to have an “America” we can recognize in 4 years.
— Bradley Juma (@BradleyJuma11) January 25, 2025
It leaves a “gap” in one of Trump’s “priorities?” No, honey, it SERVES Trump’s priorities to the letter! He lives to destroy our government. And for reasons which surpasseth understanding, the American electorate decided (marginally but decisively) that they would rather have a fascist in power destroying our system of government than a Black woman.
But as stated, this is vintage Collins blindness. Remember when she said Trump had “learned” his lesson? I believe that was after Impeachment I but before Impeachment II? The timing of the comment doesn’t matter because there were any number of times where Trump, if he had any substance at all, would have said “mea culpa” and began to walk a different way. That day never dawned and dawn it never will.
Again, I can only compare Collins to the mother of the accused serial killer, “No, my Donnie would never do such things. He’s a good boy.”
Perfect analogy. Wish I'd thought of it myself. 🙂
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) January 26, 2025
That’s the bottom line, right there. But Collins is deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to Donald, she’s proven that many times.
Most straightforward pushback to IG firings would be joint statement by e.g. McConnell, Grassley, Ernst, Collins and Murkowski, saying they won’t vote to confirm any nominees until satisfied there will be oversight in the agencies.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 25, 2025
That is exactly what’s needed now. But nobody is doing that. Not even the Democrats who voted to approve Kristi Noem as head of Homeland Security.
This has been the first week of what will be known as the worst administration in American history. Trump is just getting warmed up and we face desperate times ahead. But bear in mind that Trump won by a narrow plurality, not the landslide he imagines and boasts about. It’s understandable to feel overwhelmed but that’s not the reality of the situation. 12 more votes in each precinct would have decided the election differently. That’s what to bear in mind.
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Read the post at DK posted by Tom Hartmann and a very credible case is made they stole it again through dirty voter suppression tactics that eliminated millions of minority and young voters. Of course, people like dumb as a moose Collins, find any and every way to excuse their hypocrisy. Remember how she swore Kavanaugh would uphold Roe? If there were any true justice, her duplicitous ass would be tied behind a moose, setting its sights on Quebec, startled by gunfire, dragging her sorry ass 500 miles through dense forest. I hate to dump our trash in Canada.
Trump always used to say very confidently, “I have all the votes I need.” Remember that? And we only lost by 12 votes per precinct, according to Michael Moore. So I used to wonder why he said that. It makes complete sense. But on the other hand, that ANY fucking body would vote for this imbecile depresses me. I never understood why this race was close (or in 2016) but I guess we literally are two Americas. I said it in 2016 and it was revelation to me, then. But now it’s just stating the obvious.
“…the American electorate decided (marginally but decisively) that they would rather have a fascist in power destroying our system of government than a Black woman.”
Scott’s right. NOT “stollen” but VOTER SUPPRESSION is what they did.
Please, do NOT get over it and argue about “why they lost.” Get ACTIVE locally.
It’s a theory that fits the facts. And God knows Trump said enough times that he “didn’t need any more votes” and all that. I guess democracy just got *stollen* one night, like in a jewel heist.
Susan Collins can always be counted on to vote with the Democrats…when Republicans don’t need her vote.
DOGE is not there to root out waste and abuse. It is there to find ways to take the public money and make it theirs. Trump fired the IG’s so no one would stand in his way of doing whatever the hell he wants.