#Susan Collins

[snow-acotar]

Peeta fr went through poverty, 2 hunger games, 2 months of torture, and a catastrophic war while being plagued by thoughts of killing the woman he loves, and having to rebuild his life again

AND he still chose Katniss. meanwhile, real teenage boys will lose a baseball game and go on a villain arc

i wish fictional men written by badass women actually existed

[liberalsarecool]

Susan Collins could have put a check on Republican misogyny and slowed the GOP War on Women, but like all conservatives, her words of support mean nothing: betrayal is the design.

No remorse. No regrets. No shame.

[porterdavis]

[schraubd]

Will Matt Gaetz Finally Cause the Senate GOP To Stand Up To Trump? My Money's On No!

I really thought I'd laid the bar on the floor, but somehow Donald Trump has already burrowed under it by announcing (former*) Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general. I had the pleasure of sharing this news with several of my law school colleagues, where it literally provoked a laugh-out-loud howl of incredulity. It wasn't just my people though. Senate Republicans also seem rather blindsided by the pick: The selection of Mr. Gaetz blindsided many of Mr. Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill. The announcement was met with immediate and unvarnished skepticism by Republicans in the Senate who will vote on his nomination. Senator Susan Collins of Maine said she was “shocked” by the pick — and predicted a difficult confirmation process. [....] Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, when asked about Mr. Gaetz’s selection, said, “I don’t know the man other than his public persona.” Mr. Cornyn said he could not comment on the chances that Mr. Gaetz, or Tulsi Gabbard, Mr. Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, would be confirmed: “I don’t know — we’ll find out.” “He’s got his work cut out for him,” Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, said as other senators dodged questions from reporters. Representative Max Miller, Republican of Ohio, told reporters that many members of the G.O.P. conference were shocked at the choice of Mr. Gaetz for attorney general, but mostly thrilled at the prospect that he might no longer be a member of the chamber. The House, Mr. Miller added, would be a more functional place without Mr. Gaetz. He predicted a bruising confirmation fight, adding that if the process revealed evidence to corroborate the allegations of sex trafficking against Mr. Gaetz, he would not be surprised if the House moved to expel him, as it did with Representative George Santos. Mr. Santos lost his seat after the Ethics Committee documented violations of the chamber’s rules and evidence of extensive campaign fraud.   But things aren't all bad. You'll never guessed who raced ahead of the pack to greet Trump's failson pick with open arms: One of the few lawmakers to offer a positive assessment was a staunch Trump ally, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who called Mr. Gaetz “smart” and “clever” but predicted tough confirmation hearings. So, how long will it take for the Senate GOP caucus to fall in line? I'm guessing it'll happen before the first confirmation hearing. (That is, if we have confirmation hearings). Oh, and speaking of organizations that have put their dignity in a lockbox, we did finally learn what bridge is too far for the ADL, which blistered the Gaetz selection because of his "long history of trafficking in antisemitism," including "defending the Great Replacement Theory." How he's distinguished from the ADL's glowingly-praised Elise Stefanik, who also promoted Great Replacement Theory, was left unsaid. * Gaetz hastily resigned his seat following the announcement, also getting ahead of a planned House Ethics Committee report that was set to issue findings on Gaetz's myriad, er, "controversies" -- including allegations of sex trafficking minors. Score one for QAnon! via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/WqtsjKg

[porcupine-girl]

After reading an article about reactions to some of Trump’s absolutely insane cabinet picks, I realized that once again we will be at the mercy of Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski to fend off the worst of him. I’d forgotten they both existed. God, I hope they still have any spine left at all. They never had much, but the bit they had was often all that was standing between us and some terrible, terrible decisions.

[mysterythief]

Can’t wait for my babygirl (he’s an adult alcoholic) Haymitch Abernathy to find himself (experience extreme trauma) in the hunger games and stick it in Snow’s face so that he can teach two teenager twenty-five years later that the power of love really can bring down dictatorships and heal wounds

[republicanidiots]

I love how Republicans like Susan Collins are (suddenly) outraged by Trump -- but only for very recent, very specific things.

It's like Trump robbed a bank and Collins is only mad he took the twenties.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Giant Leopard Moth

COURTESY SUSAN COLLINS

[niremedy]

Everlark🫶🏻❤️‍🩹

[stop-ugly]

I finally watched the ballad of songbirds and snakes and I don't like it sending the message that being hot is an excuse for any crime 😕

[snow-acotar]

favorite duo of all time. glamorous and upbeat x emo and depressed? amazing

and the parenting dyamic? oh my god. haymitch is the realistic slightly bad influence father, and effie is the slightly helicopter mom who just wants her children to be happy

the way they fight is such an intriguing relationship imo

throughout the whole series, it's just haymitch or katniss and peeta doing something effie finds either inappropriate or irrational, and then instead of getting super mad... she just gasps and starting girl boss walking around the room

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Hunger Games 25th Quarter Quell

The Hunger Games movies are currently free on Youtube so I have casually rewatched all four movies this past week.

I was thinking about the 25th game and how utterly cruel it is. I think it's the worst out of the three when it comes to psychological torture.

And the sad part is that voting on the tribute can be very strategic:

Of course, the Career districts would vote for the fittest people for the games. That's what they do already anyway.

For the poorer districts, it would make sense to vote for the person lowest in the social hierarchy since the hope of winning is low anyway. Someone mentally or physically disabled, maybe someone young, someone from a poor family with too many mouths to feed, a social pariah that no one likes. Basically someone with the least benefit to their district.

Even if the poorer districts had a superstar who they thought would be able to beat the odds...it is still cruel to subject someone to death because they have the best chance of winning.

Sometimes this franchise is too depressing for me.

I am just a casual fan of HG. I never read the books or watched the prequel movies. But Susan Collins (unlike JKR) is such a phenomenal writer and she handles so many issues with such care. I love her characters, the world-building and how she handles themes like classism, trauma and cruelty. Nothing is perfect of course but the Hunger Games always gets my emotions going.

If JKR handled her social issues with half the care Collins did, HP wouldn't be such an annoyance to read.

[davidaugust]

The GOP leadership disapproved of the GOP nominee for President.

[bookreviewcoffee]

The Ballad of songbirds and snakes Susan Collins

Before the reader's eyes is the rise of a despot - the very President Snow from the Hunger Games trilogy. But in my opinion, it will be interesting to read not only fans of history. And certainly do not refer this book to teenage fantasy and light reading.

In my opinion Collins has really grown as a writer. She painstakingly draws details of the personalities, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions.

Coriolanus' attachment to the smell of roses, which is associated with his dead mother and helps to calm him down, his struggle with the image of his overbearing father, his shame at his plight as an orphan, his attempts to stay on top of the social ladder, his courageous actions, not dictated at all by concern for others, the ambiguous selfish tenderness for his cousin and grandmother - like a three-year-old who perceives everyone only through himself, his thoughts about his origins and destiny, his fear of being left on the margins of life. And "friendship" and "love." In inverted commas because these concepts are unknown to our hero, but he really wants to be accepted, to adapt to the environment, and for this he needs to interact with people somehow. So he interacts: he smiles, helps, co-operates, serves and even cares. But in the inner dialogue we always hear the truth. Each person is simply a means to an end for Snow.

At the very beginning this boy wants to justify and support, it's as if he has no choice. But in the last third of the book the transformation is completed and we are shocked to see the devastating consequences. And we knew from the beginning who it was! We knew it wouldn't be otherwise and still we are horrified by the plot twist and the actions of the characters.

Oh yeah, and there's also the tenth Hunger Games in this book, not at all as technologically advanced and popular as the games in Kitniss' time. Yes, and compared to those games that go on in Snow's head - they just pale in comparison. But, believe me, our hero will add pepper to them, and that's what he does from the very first pages.

In my opinion, the entire Hunger Games series of books is about how war uglifies society. How concepts are overturned, will is lost, hatred is nurtured. About how propaganda of any kind works, and how difficult it is to break out of that cycle, not only for those who have gone through the war, but for many generations of descendants later. Snow says (not verbatim) that war, once started, never ends. It is in people's souls and in their heads. And as long as that is true, there will be more and more Hunger Games.

[none-of-it-was-accidental]

just rewatched the hunger games movies for the first time after reading crimson rivers and cried for the first time ever