“While Susan Collins’ campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donation of $26,” said Graham Platner’s campaign manager.
A new analysis of campaign finance data shows that nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbent’s campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.
The Maine Monitor on Thursday published a list of billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican opponent a “corrupt” protector and beneficiary of an oligarchic political system.
The outlet noted that Collins’ billionaire donation total “stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent… whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.”
I prefer my group of billionaires over their group. The Senate is so outrageously corrupt it is hard the fathom. It was created as a wealthy check on the will of the people. Just let that sink in.
Cash wasted on liars and traitors. Are the Maine voters dumb enough to keep her in office?
The cost of election campaigns in the US is just ridiculous. How/why does it cost millions/billions of dollars to run for public office?
The cost comes from running ad campaigns on all media types, which are unfortunately shown effective, and PAC groups can unfortunately spend unlimited money attacking the opposition.
It must be nice to be a sock puppet for the ruling class. Gotta feel great peeling off hundreds from their trillions.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
It would be nice to have a post-conflict plan TBH. But yeah, whatever the plan, that would be step 1
post conflict plan is socialist reconstruction & infrastructure but most liberals aren’t ready to accept that yet, they’d rather have oligarchy because it means they won’t have to give up their gentrified apartment
No, you see, when I’m in charge, everything will be peachy! It’s the other oligarchs that are the problem.
It’s socialism or barbarism but they got you thinking they are the same things
They got you thinking it would be socialism.
Honestly, I think the 2nd biggest reason for the opposition to socialism, is change. People don’t like breaking habit, even if it is extremely bad for them. Better the demon you know, than a angel you don’t.
Seems like a short sighted plan. Not much changed after what happened to the CEO of UHC insurance.
Maybe not long term, but there was a noticeable uptick in claims being approved from what I recall. Whether you think Luigi was right or wrong, it’s hard to deny people are alive today because of him.
It directly resulted in thousands of claims being granted that would otherwise have been denied, literally saving thousands of lives. It got my dad’s heart surgery approved.
It’ll hit different when it’s all of them. 1 ceo death is not enough for change. Now go take your noise somewhere else.
It’s cute you think the problem can be solved by wiping them out. You’re either naive or ignorant to the way things work. Either way I don’t want to be a part of this conversation anymore so I’ll just stop completely with my noise.
Never said this was the solution to all the world’s ills. This is justice for thier crimes. Keeping them alive is more dangerous than keeping them living. They must be stopped. ASAP The only reason they should be kept alive is to torture information out of them that will lead to the arrests and eliminatation of the others.
It is us or them. I choose us.
a solution without wiping them out won’t solve the problem.
I call it the house cleaning fallacy. “Cleaning the house doesn’t solve the problem of things getting dirty”
We need term limits in Congress.
No. 40 years ago we needed term limits in congress. An ounce of prevention on time is worth a shipping container of 7.68 when the problem has gotten stupid.
The best time to plant a tree, and all that…
7.62 ?
I could swear that’s what I typed. Or I’ve been playing a video game with different numbers? Who’s to say.
theres a lot of 7mm ammo, particularly 7.62, 7.63 and 7.92. i could have swore there was a rare 7.68 ammo, but after looking for it to check, i cant find anything about it, so it either doesn’t exist or is very rare
You need a lot more than that, American
And probably needed more than one little law 40 years ago. I stand by my approximate ratio.
BUT these Billionaires CARE about Us! THATS why they’re FORCING us to Invest ALL OUR RETIREMENT into Their Companies so they can be Trillionaires!
But you can’t shop lift! Think about the employees and small business people who will suffer!
Hey, now. Susan Collins is very concerned about all the billionaire money in politics. Very concerned. Almost very, very concerned. Right on the edge.
She’s not happy about it, but in the end, after wrestling with her conscience, she will take their money, but she’s not happy about it, and she’ll do whatever they tell her to do, but she’s not happy about it.
She must be a very unhappy woman.
Those pearls don’t clutch themselves.
Let’s interview everyone that has a grudge with Susan Collins.
No? We can only interview every ex girlfriend, guy that’s willing to say something negative, and Republican friend of a friend that knows the grassroots guy. Huh, I wonder why.
To them, losing the “progressives can’t win purple states” narrative would be a catastrophe.
Not only can progressives win in purple states, I bet they can win in these supposedly “red” states that have been abandoned by the Dems in recent years. Progressive takeover of the Democratic Party needs to happen ASAP.
People in those red states will never vote for anyone with a ‘D’ next to their name, no matter how much they agree with them.
I agree. I don’t think the actual silent majority thinks “that guy’s too far right” or “that lady’s too far left,” they ask “which one’s gonna help with my problems?”
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
The tea party was an astroturfing campaign…
And we need it fast. No time for steeping. Call it the Espresso Party!
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up
I think it’s already happening. People are tired of the current leadership who have proven themselves deaf to the needs of the working class. They’ve just been stringing people along with performativism and virtue signaling, but people have definitely woken up to that in recent years.
Also, establishment Dems’ catastrophic failures in last election followed by a series of progressive wins is a good signal. Progressives are demonstrating their electability, and that momentum will only build from here on. It will become increasingly harder for Democratic Party leadership to stifle the progressive caucus.
Also, the new DNC chairman is at least nominally progressive. We’ll see how he does in two years. Till then all we can do is hope and wait and vote.
Asking honestly… how do we do this?
Vote in every dem primary for the progressive candidate, campaign for the progressive candidate, run as the progressive candidate. Vote in every primary and every general.
I’m no strategist but: Primaries, local organizing with progressive supporters, and refusing to play the “civility politics” game that so many conservatives and neoliberals love to play. Be progressive and don’t apologize for it.
Do they ever apologize? No, they don’t. We don’t either.
In 1936, Roosevelt was elected despite millionaires pouring money into Hoover’s campaign.
Voting is important.
If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t make it so hard to vote or try to stop you. It unfortunately isn’t very effective when people are complacent. But when people are pissed, even stacked decks and rigging won’t hold ultimately.
That’s why perpetual whiplash is baked into the system. People get complacent when things are going good, which is when the opposition’s momentum is at its strongest.
4-8 years later the other side is the one that gets complacent as their opposition gets fired up.
Rinse and repeat.
When that health care CEO was executed, his company, and all the other health care companies temporarily eased up on their denials, and thousands of people got treatment who were previously denied. I’ve read of people who were going to die, until they suddenly got approved following the murder.
Of course, they’ve gone back to business as usual, but that only demonstrates that we have to execute another CEO every few months. Maybe be strategic about it, and spread it around in different industries until they get their shit together.
First handle a few health care guys until they clean it up, and stay there. Then maybe oil companies CEOs are next. Maybe pharmaceutical companies.
Eventually, maybe we execute enough, that the business world decides to adopt a more moral stance towards money, one where they can still get rich, without being such shitheads that they eventually get set on fire in front of their families.
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The algorithm is simple. Watch who the billionaires back, then vote for the other option.
Doesn’t always work, Kamala had more billionaires backing her than trump .
Unless you want to advocate voting for Stein, which is fine, you’ll just have to deal with a large chunk of people here caling you a Russian bot.
Stein literally ran at the behest of Russia as a Dem spoiler. This was pretty out in the open. Do not vote for Russian assets/agents.
A better rule of thumb is “who are the Zionist and Billionaires funding”. Personally, I really dislike Platner. But when I see literally every Zionist group funding attack campaigns it really doesn’t matter anymore. It’s a single election. If I was in Maine, I’d go vote against what the Zionist clearly want.
Does the chud betray us and turn into a Fetterman? Maybe. Maybe he has a stroke too. But I want Israel to stop getting bombs. I don’t have to like Platner. But I am excited that a candidate that says he wants to stop weapons shipments to Israel is actually popular in a purple state like main. That is amazing. And no amount of virtue signaling will take that away from me.
I’ve been fighting Zionism since I was in college in 2015. Platner winning would be good for the entire movement of the left. Even if he doesn’t follow through. People don’t want “it’s complicated centrist”. You don’t have to compromise. You can win elections while being against the genocidal apartheid state. That is absolutely a win.
Yea this is the kind of thing people should be saying. Instead of attacking anyone with an opinion of a previous Nazi tattoo. I’m not in Maine, i don’t trust this guy. But Fuck Susan Collins.
Careful with that nuance. People here don’t like measured criticism of Platner
My concerns are that he’s either lying about knowing it was a totenkopf or if he isn’t that he’s pretty stupid because a totenkopf isn’t subtle, it’s like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol, and any tattoo shop that’ll do a totenkopf is gonna have other nazi imagery around because that’s a nazi shop, so he would have had to miss that too. So yeah he was either nazi adjacent or really dumb. Neither are good, but he likely can’t be worse than Collins so he gets a benefit of the doubt. But I’m sorry if you get a totenkopf tattoo without somehow recognizing a prominent and exclusively nazi symbol then you’re pretty goddamn stupid. It’s not an obscure symbol, it’s the goddamn death’s head. You shouldn’t even need history class, popular media should be enough.
than Collins so he gets a benefit of the doubt. But I’m sorry if you get a totenkopf tattoo without somehow recognizing a prominent and exclusively nazi symbol then you’re pretty goddamn stupid. It’s not an obscure symbol, it’s the goddamn death’s head.
Exactly. And the people here that are willing to say whatever they need to in order to deflect any criticism, regardless of how valid…
Stop trying to fucking gaslight people into thinking this isn’t a blatant Nazi symbol.
I was literally told on here that I’m lying about knowing the symbol prior to the controversy. In their mind it’s simply not possible for someone to be aware of the totenkopf. Unreal.
Not all people here. Some of us want to get closer to the truth, no matter how pretty, or ugly, it is. Overall though, I agree.
this is good to know. billionaires can play both sides and all candidates are susceptible to being a turncoat. ultimately it’s maine choice and he has more to bring to the table.
No, West.
Sort of…
Has More Billionaires Prominently Backing Her
There are many unaccounted for, could just be those who are backing dems are OK with that being public vs through a PAC.
It’s definitely not fine to vote for an Ableist like Stein who thinks you can cure autism with crystals
Edit: apparently I have her mixed up with someone else
Maybe Maryanne what’s her face?
Source?
She graduated from harvard medical school and practiced medicine for 25 years before she entered politics, I sincerely doubt she believes either autism is a disease that can be cured or that crystals have anything to do with it.
Meanwhile her platform on disability rights is leagues ahead of Kamala and the Dems
You can hate Stein for being a spoiler, but there’s no need to spread lies about her.
I hate her for working for Putin.
I can’t find anything. I might be mixing her up with another green party candidate. Mb.
At most I can find that she used to be anti-vax but has changed her position on that.
As long as the electoral college exists Jill Stein can be a literal angel, Halo and wing span… and it won’t matter.
Anyone who thinks voting third party will do anything is either a secret Republican or is hopelessly naive.
Unless you want to advocate voting for Stein
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Trump, an actual Russian asset and known pedophile with deep ties to a fascist tech oligarchs
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Harris, an empty suit who took the nomination sans primary and immediately handed her campaign to the Cheney family
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Jill Stein, a perennial fail candidate with no meaningful ties to anyone who mostly just campaigns on climate change and anti-war issues
I mean, if you want the Harm Reduction Candidate, it’s obviously Stein.
But if you’re heavily invested in partisan politics, you just vote straight ticket
Jill Stein has run multiple Presidential campaigns, each one funded by the fucking Russians.
IDK what the hell you’re going on about, but you’ve completely missed the plot with that traitorous bitch.
she was investigated by the senate, and they found that she wasn’t taking funding from russians. this is misinformation
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Bullshit. They proved she was a Russian asset.
Here’s a story of her campaigning in 2024 with Russian assets.
https://democrats.org/news/icymi-jill-stein-to-campaign-today-with-alleged-russian-assets/
Here’s one from 2018 showing the Russians running a social media blitz on behalf of Jill Stein for President.
SORRY BUT YOU’RE JUST WRONG, DUDE. SHE’S A FUCKING RUSSIAN PLANT AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
this is all insinuation and innuendo. what I said is the truth.
What you said is technically treason. She’s a traitor and by extension, so are her supporters.
It doesn’t matter. They have a picture of her sitting at a dinner table that one time in 2015. So now she’s basically FSB Western Hemisphere Commanding Officer for life.
Facts simply do not influence their feelings.
Why was she there? Why exactly was an unelected political candidate meeting with a hostile foreign government during an election campaign? Why could that be?
Voting for Stein was basically voting for Trump
Is this like how voting for Gary Johnson is voting for Hilary?
Anything but voting for Hillary was voting for Trump
That’s all well and good but it’s known that non and third party voters get republicans elected and arguing with numpties who ignore that reality isn’t worth it.
that’s just not true
voting for stein was voting against trump.
Lol no, not how the electoral college works
this is a nonsequitur
I mean, if you want the Harm Reduction Candidate, it’s obviously Stein.
Just a complete lack of understanding of US elections.
Edit: never mind, I just saw the user name. No benefit of the doubt here, this is misinformation. You know exactly what you’re saying.
What’s the end goal here? Accelerationism I guess? How’s that working out for you
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“But we need someone electable, someone both sides like!”
Yeah no, the “both sides” these people are referring to is the defensive and offensive wing of the same group.
You cant win elections appealing to “both sides”.
How do we/ why would we appeal to people who are literally a combination of mind-bogglingly corrupt Traitors, Racists, and Pedophiles? What kind of a compromise do you cut with them? They are only allowed to do a little graft, treason, racism, and child raping? Just regulate it, to keep it at a reasonable level?
MAGA needs to be mercilessly crushed, and purged from our government and society. They don’t get to contribute to the future of America. We allowed them to do that after the Civil War, and it led to this. We can’t make that mistake again.
MAGAs rise and reign has been ugly, and we need to make their decline and demise even uglier, so future generations will learn harsh lessons from it.
Heritage foundation and Federalist fucks too
They all need treated like the traitors and seditionists they are.
You can, if you’re appealing to the 1% of each side
Planter was the only candidate whose website had the word “genocide” so he got my vote
