“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.
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.
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.
Does Stephen King’s recommendation carry any weight? Has he made a statement regarding this? Maybe he’s smart to stay out of it.
He appears to have endorsed Platner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Maine#Endorsements_2
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
The Epstein Island pedophile Stephen King who wrote CSEM multiple times?
Not that one. The one who is a bestselling author. That one.
Right, the one who insisted the Epstein files weren’t real, and also wrote about child sex.
& none of “em wanna see her nekkid.
The election won’t change anything. Republicans will remain in power, the Tr*mp family will establish a ruling dynasty, and Democrats will express moderate concern.
She must be just as much of the people as pelosi, right?
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WTF?
Stupid people don’t investigate the meaning of
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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.
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?”
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
The tea party was an astroturfing campaign…
What’s astroturfing?
It’s when big money funds a “grass roots” campaign. In the case of the tea party the Koch brothers bankrolled that project.
Thank
And we need it fast. No time for steeping. Call it the Espresso Party!
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.
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.
