“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.”
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!
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.
Does Stephen King’s recommendation carry any weight? Has he made a statement regarding this? Maybe he’s smart to stay out of it.
Let them waste their money. Mainers are not stupid. Can’t be said for my home state of CA unfortunately…
& none of “em wanna see her nekkid.
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.
Planter was the only candidate whose website had the word “genocide” so he got my vote
billionaires who made their money in alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity."
Wut. Since when are hedge funds alternative investments?
They’re alternative to any investments we’re allowed to make. All we can do is stick our money in the bank for .5% interest with inflation over 4%, or toss our money into the stock market whirlpool for the wealthy to swallow.
ETFs, mutual funds, forex, precious metals, cryptocurrency…
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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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.
I mean if you’re an ex drug addict you shouldn’t be Secretary of health. I think at some point we’ve gone too far.
I think RFK jr. shouldn’t be Secretary of Health because he’s anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-handwashing, anti-public health, believes raw milk and red meat are good for you, eats roadkill, swims in raw sewage, and brags about doing coke off of public bathroom toilet seats. I’m sure I missed a few points, too.
Being a former drug addict doesn’t factor into it. Some of the kindest, most caring, self-aware, and health-focused people I know are former drug addicts. People can turn their lives around, and climbing out of a mountain-deep hole is as big of an accomplishment as climbing a mountain.
The fact that you’re trying to conflate RFK jr.'s being-a-drug-addict with his being-a-disgusting-unqualified-piece-of-shit is very problematic and reveals a lot about you as a person.
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!”
“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.
You can, if you’re appealing to the 1% of each side
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?”
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.
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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
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
this is a nonsequitur
Is this like how voting for Gary Johnson is voting for Hilary?
Anything but voting for Hillary was voting for Trump
that’s just not true
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https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/
The list it sources says 97 for her and 5 for the opponent.
Let them waste their money. And when the Dems take it all back, let’s investigate and audit the fortunes of every one of those 97 Sociopathic Oligarchs, and see how many end up in prison, along with their family members.
