Just on the off hand chance that Susan Collins or one of her staff might have looked here to wonder if people are already forgetting her lies and exposure as having been a life-long fraud by voting to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, they won't lack for reminders as long as I'm alive, Sue.
Some here in Maine are dismayed because there are those who are calling for and enforcing a boycott of my state over our having Susan Collins, one of the most cowardly attackers against Christine Blasey Ford (who, on last reading and unlike her attempted rapist, Kavanaugh, can't return home in safety) who called her a liar and deluded while hiding that behind less obvious words.
Well, my thinking on boycotts is that people have a right to spend their money and vacation time where they choose to and it's pretty pointless to tell them that they can't choose not to spend those here because Susan Collins has defined Maine as the kind of state that has someone like her as a Senator. It's unfortunate that that targets not only the entirely innocent but those who despise Collins and have never voted for her such as myself, as well as those who support her. If you want an example of that kind of thing, L.L. Bean has supported as bad as Collins despite their protestations to the contrary.
The matter of boycotts hurting the innocent is as true in a boycott of Arizona when they opposed observing Martin Luther King's Birthday or South Carolina when (despite them keeping the little fascist faggot Lindsay Graham in the Senate) they oppose marriage equality or, the boycotting of the buses in Montgomery Alabama or people opposed to Stalinism staying away from movies made by or written by supporters of Stalin or those who stay away from anything to do with Rupert Murdoch. I don't see how you can support the right of people on the left to boycott if you complain about it when you don't like the result. That is when the reason they are boycotting is based on a true understanding of the situation and not on lies. Which, unfortunately, can happen.
If Maine companies and businesses want to, they are entirely free to declare themselves opponents of Susan Collins and donate money to those who want to remove her from office and to send her into a retirement that will be ever more ignominious as her boy Brett takes a sledge hammer to Women's rights, to equality and rights and the environment for the billionaire boys club that he and Susan Collins are most devoted to. Of course, as my experience over the past several days shows, even if you've spent your entire time online telling what a phony and creep Susan Collins is, some lying idiot like "JeffCo" at Eschaton will accuse you of supporting her because Eschaton is the home of that kind of lying. But I anticipate a post I haven't finished yet. In the case of Susan Collins, she's the one who provoked the boycott with her lying and deceit and betrayal of those whose support she got by lying and deceit. Blame her, not the ones who are reacting to it in anger.
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