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.
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.
Nixon is literally why the undead turtle is such a salty sassy corpse
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.
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