“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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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”
Exactly. I feel like a lot of the people who are not in agreement with me on this issue are being short sited and impractical.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
The best time to plant a tree, and all that…
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.
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.
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.
I mean the dude got a nazi tattoo. Not an ambiguous thing, an exclusively and extremely recognizable nazi tattoo. The amount of stupid required to do that without knowing it was a nazi tattoo, or anyone in your circle who’s seen it over the years, is incredibly concerning. So given the choice between he knowingly got a nazi tattoo and lied or he and everyone around him is too dumb to recognize like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol, well he’s probably still better than Susan Collins. But nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo.
A nazi tattoo that hardly anyone knew was a nazi symbol until the story about him spread around? I for one didn’t know what it was until I read about him.
Does that make me “too dumb to recognize like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol”? I guarantee you I’m not the only one.
“extremely recognizable” is a huge stretch.
I mean if you’ve ever covered nazi Germany in a history class you’ve seen the totenkopf. If you’ve seen popular media featuring Nazis you’ve seen the totenkopf. It’s distinctive from any other skull or crossbone pirate imagery which is the excuse I keep hearing. If you’ve played the wolfenstein remake the fucking bag guy is literally called deaths head. Yeah, if you’re totally unaware that the totenkopf is well known and exclusively Nazi symbol, and you tattoo it on yourself at a tattoo parlor willing to give Nazi tattoos, and everyone in your life that sees it for the decade plus you are displaying it, then absolutely you and all those people that saw and also didn’t know are stupid. You cannot get a Nazi tattoo by accident unless you’re really really really fucking dumb.
I mean if you’ve ever covered nazi Germany in a history class you’ve seen the totenkop
That’s a stretch. I don’t recall ever seeing a totenkopf in a history textbook. Maybe if you majored in history with a focus in WWII, but that’s not the majority of people.
If you’ve seen popular media featuring Nazis you’ve seen the totenkopf.
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed one portrayed in any media depicting nazis either. Inglorious Bastards? Sound of Music? The Pianist? It’s a Beautiful Life? Schindler’s List? Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Show me a screenshot from any of those movies that has a totenkopf.
If you’ve played the wolfenstein remake […]
How many people is that? Oh, not the majority. Great.
Yeah, if you’re totally unaware that the totenkopf is well known and exclusively Nazi symbol
I wasn’t aware of that until I read about it in the context of Platner.
and you tattoo it on yourself
I wouldn’t have anyway because I think it looks stupid.
at a tattoo parlor willing to give Nazi tattoos
I don’t think those kinds of parlors exactly advertise themselves as such.
and everyone in your life that sees it for the decade plus you are displaying it
You still haven’t convinced me that the majority of people even know what it is.
then absolutely you and all those people that saw and also didn’t know are stupid.
I guess I’m stupid then.
You cannot get a Nazi tattoo by accident unless you’re really really really fucking dumb.
I don’t have any tattoos, but I can still see how someone might have walked into a tattoo shop, picked something out of their catalog and gotten it without researching the history or symbolism behind it. It’s not that crazy to believe.
I learned about the fuckin thing in grade school history in the goddamn rural Midwest. You’re just saying that most people are really stupid. You’ve got a big fuckin blind spot for fascist imagery and it’s got you doing nazi apologism. Ignorance isn’t a goddamn excuse in a lot of situations and this is one of them. Nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo because it’s not fuckin easy to find a tattoo shop that tolerates nazi imagery in the first place and the ones that do are fuckin nazi shops. Ignorance does not get to be an excuse for tattooing a goddamn death’s head on you. No. If you knew anything about tattoo culture you’d know him getting in the first place very nearly guarantees he knew what it was. I’d still prefer him over Susan Collins but he’s either lying or really fucking dumb and these are the only two options. Or he was forced to join a prison gang, so I guess three options but I’m pretty sure it’s not the third. It is impossible to accidentally get a nazi tattoo.
Since I went browsing around, here are some images for comparison:
Yes, it’s a specific design and you should be careful with skulls but I’m not sure we should demand that everyone recognize the difference. I wouldn’t have until now if I’d seen them as line drawings. In embossed silver, sure…
I think we should. Because you don’t accidentally get a nazi tattoo because any shop willing to do nazi tats very quickly and rightfully gets a reputation as a nazi shop, and if you’re seeing a death’s head in their flash you’re seeing more nazi imagery. So he would have had to miss all of that. And everyone who ever saw it would have also had to have been unaware, and again despite your lack of awareness it’s incredibly recognizable as an exclusively nazi symbol, it’s up there with the iron cross right behind ss runes and the swastika. It’s right there on the ss caps. The fuckin Mitchell and Webb “are we the baddies” sketch that everyone memes shows it front and center. It is not an ambiguous symbol and he’s either lying about knowing what it was or really stupid. He’s still better than Collins, but you don’t accidentally get a nazi tattoo and I’m kinda tired of everyone minimizing this like it’s no big fuckin deal. He gets the benefit of the doubt but everyone should be keeping him under a fucking microscope for any fuckery whatsoever.
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!”
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.
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…
Let them waste their money. Mainers are not stupid. Can’t be said for my home state of CA unfortunately…
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.
It must be nice to be a sock puppet for the ruling class. Gotta feel great peeling off hundreds from their trillions.
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