“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.”
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.
She must be just as much of the people as pelosi, right?
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billionaires who made their money in alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity."
Wut. Since when are hedge funds alternative investments?
Planter was the only candidate whose website had the word “genocide” so he got my vote
Yet tankies will still continue to focus their vitriol on Platner…
He’s problematic, maybe? Probably? What he isn’t is Susan “he’s learned his lesson” Collins.
Waiting for a perfect candidate with a squeaky clean record is an exercise in futility.
The only way someone gets old enough to run for political office while having enough knowledge and experience to actually be capable of doing the job, without having ever made any mistakes that one’s opponents can dig up for their mudslinging campaigns, is to take no risks, be non-controversial, a chameleon, totally performative and insincere. That’s how you end up with these robotic-sounding DNC stars.
What’s important is whether someone learned from their mistakes and has shown themselves capable of improving. There’s this weird essentialist idea floating around in people’s heads that once someone has made a mistake, that mistake is fundamentally who they are as a person and they should be judged for it for the rest of their lives. And honestly, if that mentality takes root and grows, it could lead to a very dystopian world. It’s just one more part to add to the total surveillance state we’re already sliding towards.
Everything Harris or Biden related: “genocide is genocide!” “There’s no such thing as a little genocide!”
Everything Platner: “what’s genocide? He has a tattoo!”
All others in Democratic party (and Bernie somehow): “controlled opposition!”
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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”.
You can, if you’re appealing to the 1% of each side
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
Voting for Stein was basically voting for Trump
voting for stein was voting against trump.
Lol no, not how the electoral college works
Is this like how voting for Gary Johnson is voting for Hilary?
Anything but voting for Hillary was voting for Trump
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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.
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
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.
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?”
Asking honestly… how do we do this?
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.
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up
https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/
The list it sources says 97 for her and 5 for the opponent.
I thought she dropped out?
That was Janet Mills, the current Governor. She was also running in the race to unseat Collins’ run for a seventh term as Senator.
A traitor to the United States of America.
Jesus Christ, Maine.
They are absolutely terrified of Platner taxing them aren’t they?
I think that tells us all we need to know.
I wonder if they’re feeling what we felt with Trump where no matter how many truths we told about his scandals he kept going. The difference this time is that it’s democrats and republicans lying and trying to manufacture scandals, but it’s not slowing him down.
Hell yeah Maine, tax those terrorists!
Far less to do with that than with Republicans control of the Senate potentially hinging on her seat.
